Happy March, dreamers! The chill is receding in my town, and everyone seems to be opening up, shaking off their contracted spirits, and beginning to twirl with anticipation of sunshine. One cat is curled up around a cup of Imperial Jasmine Tea, with the scent echoing the white jasmine blooming outside my window, open to the dark…
My last post was a long one, an interpretation of a reader’s dream. I’ll be interpreting one or two dreams a month from now on. Feel free to post one, or email it to me, or to comment on the dream just interpreted.
On April 5th, I’ll be interviewed (taped) by The Splendid Table, Public Radio’s show on food and culture, heard on 260 stations nationwide. Tune in!
Tonight, I’m thinking about the Middle East, and the wars appearing in clients’ dreams lately. Although creative people rarely dream of conflicts involving other people (mostly, our dream conflicts involve objects or animals), the events of the world seem to be leaking into our unconscious more now than in the past. In the 60s and 70s, people rarely reported any dreams about politics or national conflicts. These days… there are more.
Are you dreaming of war and peace? Conflicts on a mighty scale? Consider the warring factions within may be presenting themselves to you at night. Are two parts of you fighting over which will get control of your thoughts, feelings, or behavior? Can you envision them as two different countries of your own soul? And what do they each stand for? Which will prevail? Is one side’s demands so outrageous, you can only seek to suppress it? Or can you reach a truce?
How the events of the world are echoed in our nightly, individual worlds…