If dreams are meaningful, why don’t they tell us what to do? This question comes up often. People sense that dreams matter, that they carry something essential, and yet many are frustrated by the absence of clear instruction. Tell me what to do. The difficulty lies in...
Every morning, I spend an hour or so writing my dreams. I don’t do this to solve them or mine them for data. I do it because when I give attention to the images that appear overnight, my orientation for the day becomes clearer. Dreams rarely tell me exactly what to...
A common frustration for people beginning dream work is the feeling of being “locked out” of their own unconscious. Many find they can intuit the meaning of a friend’s dream, while their own remain confusing or opaque. This difficulty is not a failure of insight. It...
The Balancing Act of the Psyche Just as the body maintains homeostasis by responding to physical imbalances, the psyche possesses a sophisticated self-regulating function. It responds to psychological “one-sidedness” through the images that arise in our...
