"I have come to believe the entire procedure of dream interpretation aiming at more consciousness about living is radically wrong. And I mean wrong in all its fullness: harmful, twisted, deceptive, inadequate, mistaken, and exegetically insulting to its material, the dream" -…

On Saturday, Oct. 26, I will be offering a workshop on "Dream Interpretation: Ancient and Modern," sponsored by the Southern Arizona Friends of Jung - here's the registration link: eventbrite.com/e/dream-interp… I don't know what's happening to the woman's face in the promo photo....

"By situating dreamers in direct encounters with spiritual entities, dreaming supplies a vital phenomenological dimension to religious participation. Numinous oneiric encounters are translated into public stories, are submitted to collective interpretation, and often color…

"Dream images and motifs combine metaphors circulating in public culture with very personal experience. Many of a dream's meanings, I hold, lie in such combinations, which comprise imaginal thought about dreamers' problems with models and creative responses to them... Dreaming is…

The framing is done on the Dream Library - next is the roofing and siding

"In my experience, the dream does not mask or hide but does its best to reveal... Every dream has multiple meanings, and multiple levels of meaning woven into a single metaphor of personal experience" - Jeremy Taylor, Dream Work (1983), 35

"Creative individuals' dream obstacles are rarely people or things having to do with people. Rather, creative persons are challenged in their dreams by the natural world--waves, mountains, fire and flood, trees, deserts, stones in the road. These dreams are difficult to interpret…

"Beyond being chronically sleep and dream deprived, we are also considerably deprived of healthy waking. What many of us consider normal waking is not. Our failure to descend deeply into sleep and dreams compromises our ability to ascend fully into the waking world. The once…

"Sicknesses, dreams, and ecstasies are but means of reaching the condition of shaman. Sometimes these singular experiences signify no more than a 'choice' from above and merely prepare the candidate for new revelations. But usually sicknesses, dreams, and ecstasies are in…

How do you know if your dream journaling practice is working? How can you tell if you're actually growing and expanding your self-awareness? Here's a post that tries to answer those questions - psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dreami…

"Dreams contain images and thought-associations which we do not create with conscious intent. They arise spontaneously without our assistance and are representatives of a psychic activity withdrawn from our arbitrary will. Therefore the dream is, properly speaking, a highly…

"How few there are in this driving age who really take any time to wait, to listen to the still, small voices, to reflect, to dream. Instead of thinking themselves, they get the people of the press, the forum, or the market-place, to think for them. Nothing is spiritually more…

"The dream is by nature an inmost recess, a quantum of the depths of the soul. When poetically realized, it enters into the realm of freedom and time, in which the individual more easily recognizes and rescues himself. Through such a transformation the dream emerges from its…

Here's a new Psychology Today post about dreams, aging, and the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates - in Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Socrates describes a lifelong recurrent dream that holds great wisdom psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/drea…

"The fundamental question for a cognitive psychology of dreams is whether there are demonstrable features within the very fabric of dream experience and open to empirical and experimental study that show the direct operation of symbolic processes... it is necessary to show that…

"The beautiful illusion of the dream worlds, in the creation of which every man is truly an artist, is the prerequisite of all plastic art, and, as we shall see, an important part of poetry also. In our dreams we delight in the immediate understanding of figures; all forms speak…

"It wasn't that I set out to write the book [The Queen of the Damned] because of the dream. What I'm saying is, I think that the dream fed me subconsciously in some way. When a dream is that intense, when it's that otherworldly, it's a little frightening. It's almost as if you…

New developments with the Dream Library... bulkeley.org/building-the-d…

"Dreams weave a womb around what ails us, providing a container for painful or traumatic experiences. Through the symbolizing activity of the dream-work, dreams give this indigestible material a new form. This transformation, like birth, implies perennial becoming" - Sharon…

"Dreaming is a record of psychohistorical change, adaptive or regressive, habitual or creative, as each person interacts and is influenced by his or her situation, a 'being-in-and-with' (Dasein) a given context (alone or with others)... Dreams prompt alterity and challenge the…