How I Work

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What I Believe about Dreams

 

• Dreams come in the service of our wholeness.

• Coming from our subconscious and linked to the wide pool of common human connection past present and future, they are messages from our divine guide to move us and guide us to growth and good.

• All the images, objects, plots and themes are reflecting your psyche, your soul.  

• Dreams cannot be manipulated by you,so are trustworthy, authentic information about your state of soul.

• No "dream interpreter" can know better than you what the dream is saying.  

• Dreams do not condemn us.  Even in the most frightening of dreams, the dream tries to correct an imbalance, not make us wrong.

• Being unable to remember dreams is a normal state.  When a dream is remembered, it is a helpful message even a nightmare.

• Not all dreams need to be intellectually comprehended.  Sometimes all we can do is honor their visit and be willing to accept that this guidance is working with us.

• Mysteries and guidance and healing beyond our present knowledge are flooding into our souls through dreams.

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How I Work with Dreams

 

    I listen to your dream by adding the phrase "part of me" after every major image.  So, for example, I hear this short dream:

    "I am sitting down on the pink, fluffy couch and a black dog comes to chew on a bone nearby.  I stand and run into the street."

    I translate this dream into this version:

    "I am sitting down on the pink, fluffy couch (part of me) and a black dog (part of me) comes to chew on a bone (part of me) nearby.  I stand and run into the street (part of me).

    It's a place to start by looking at the parts of you that are telling a story to you, a myth about this moment in your life.

 

    I like to ask a lot of questions to clarify the feelings you had during and after the dream.  I like to ask what you can tell me about any people who showed up in the dream.

    Once I have enough details, I like to retell the dream using a translated version and see if the pattern I tell surfaces any links to your waking life, or concerns you can recognize.

    If we find those links then we examine together what suggestion for a forward step is shown in the dream.

 

"Honoring" the Dream    

 

    Sometimes all we can do is honor the dream if its mystery is beyond us.  

    We "honor" the dream through bringing a significant image to our waking experience.  

    For instance, if a turtle image appears, we might find a little ceramic turtle and leave it at our bedside to signal to our dreaming self that we are open to its mystery and help.

    We might draw, paint, dance or role play with the image.  We find a way to make a ritual or ceremony to establish a sacred connection with the image that seems to be important to us.