DREAMING
Dreams can give us adventurous and interesting experiences we wouldn’t be able to experience while awake. Some help us solidify memories, while others provide scenarios where we can sharpen our problem solving skills. Dreams known as precognitive, show us possible futures and outcomes, while others show us what we’ve been trying to deny about ourselves or the world. Other dreams integrate and help us process what has been stuck in our emotional life, or can even bring healing to our bodies. Others, known as visitation dreams, allow us to communicate with the deceased or the ancestors.
At special times, dreams can gift us with the lucidity and consciousness of the awakened mind, not for us to control the dream and change its outcome necessarily, but for us to make use of what’s available to us with that consciousness, to inquiere and find guidance and understanding.
After 20 years of working with dreams I continue to be amazed by their uniqueness, creativity, depth of meanings, inspiration, and the power of transformation they bring with them.
What if I can't remember my dreams?
Remembering your dreams is a matter of practice. The more you pay attention to them, the more you’ll dream and the more you'll recall them.
It is a relationship to be developed and nurtured. One way of creating the bridge of remembering is through dedicating some quiet time after waking up and writing what stayed with you, even if it's only an image, an emotion or a sensation. Slowly you'll grow the capacity to remember, and your dreams will come to you in different forms, storylines and sceneries. Whenever you remember a dream, give it a name just as you would give a book a tittle, you'll find that it will be easier for you to remember the dream and it will help you distill the essence of it.