The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Make note of what characteristics your setting has, what vibe it gives off, how it smells or sounds, how you feel in this place, and if it reminds you of anywhere you’ve been before.

Does revisiting it make you feel nourished, comfortable, safe, warm? Or does it bring up discomfort, longing, despair? How do those conditions relate to what’s happening for you right now?

notice your ability to telescope between your literal and symbolic attentions.

seven of the most universal dream elements: Settings, Feelings, Actions, Dynamics, Characters, Animals, and Objects.

these patterns are like imperishable truths that transcend our differences.

always take it as a positive sign of adaptation when a dream suddenly awakens the dreamer from sleep. The individual is ready to “wake up” to the fear or stress they have been unconsciously harbouring. However

Though it may seem as if persistent dream themes are just repetitive, they are actually taking us around the spiral, returning again and again to the matter from a slightly different angle, or from a greater distance, until we gain wisdom from the pattern.

But in cartography, there is a process called ground truthing in which all maps need to be refined, redrawn, and checked against the changing reality.

He is so filled with learned unworthiness as he approaches the swans that he expects to be rejected.