How long is a piece of string?
How long is a roll of toilet paper in a dream? And why couldn’t I break off a single sheet? I used to have a recurring dream where I tried to detach a single piece of TP from a roll. It held fast. I’d roll out a few more sheets, try to gently tear along a different perforation line. No give. I’d pull harder. The soft paper tissue became soft plastic, then it would morph
Unconscious wealth
I woke up this morning shortly after meeting a man, in my dreams, who told me about his website: ‘Unconsciouswealth.com.blog’. Actually, all he told me was the name of the site, and he was quite specific about the ‘dot com dot blog’ part. It was an isolated dream, just the brief meeting, the mention of the website, and then I was awake, grinning from ear to ear. I had gone to sleep knowing I needed
Dreams in the time of Covid-19
It’s during times of uncertainty, when we perhaps struggle with how to respond when the ground continuously shifts and shakes beneath our feet, when our survival feels threatened, that working with our dreams offers us opportunities to see our best way forward. Provided we can sleep! I write this blog at a time when most of us in the world are in varying degrees of lockdown, quarantine, self-isolation, and social distancing, while others are working
Solving problems in your dreams
One of the many functions of dreaming is to come up with creative solutions to problems, to clear the mist that baffles us before sleep, and reveal new perspectives and possibilities, even brilliant ideas. Throughout history we’ve been encouraged to ‘sleep on it’, to stop mulling over a problem, to quit admonishing ourselves for our inability to see the answer, to turn out the light, and drift into healing sleep and problem-solving dreams. Sometimes it