Helping people with their dreams
When someone tells you about a dream, how tempted are you to help out, to offer an interpretation, or to ask a leading question that you figure will help them to see the meaning of their dream? According to modern folklore, people scatter fast in social situations when someone mentions a dream. Apparently, while our own dreams are intensely interesting to us personally, other people’s dreams are deadly boring conversation-killers. But for those of us
This dreaming business
Whenever I’m asked what I do for a living, my answer seems to surprise, or confuse. “I’m a dream analyst,” I might say, or “I’m a dream therapist”, or sometimes, to keep things easy, “I’m an author”, but that only invites the question, “What do you write about?” Then curiosity kicks in, and keenness to share, because everyone dreams – at least five dreams a night – and while we may not remember them all,