The Wisdom of Your Dreams

Using dreams to tap into your unconscious and transform your life.

by Dr. Jeremy Taylor

Shadows, Clowns and Angels in our Dreams

Most of us are familiar with the “Shadow” in our dreams – the character who has no redeeming features, who does evil, who threatens us, chases us, and even harms us. Ironically the Shadow holds what we most need since it is the container for every thing we dislike about ourselves and wish to disown. Read More

"I" in the World of Dreams

The hardest thing for even seasoned and experienced dream workers to grasp is that ultimately there is no more reason to take the dream ego's emotions literally then there is to take anything else in the dream literally. Read More

The Expanse of Our Unconscious Is as Immense as the Night Sky

The universally experienced world of dreams and dreaming has always been a deep mystery, ever since the first confusing hints of self-awareness arose in our instinctively nervous, curious mammalian ancestors. Read More

Dreams and Spiritual Seekers

Dreams have always provided the primary experiential evidence for the reality and importance of "an unseen spiritual world". The universal experience of dreaming of the recently dead is, for example, a primary piece of evidence for "life after death". Read More

Water, and Houses, and Stairways, Oh My!

I'm not a great fan of dream dictionaries, although I do feel they have a place in helping us “unpack” our dreams; they can stimulate our imagination and "jump-start" our understanding of dreams. You may find some of my comments below useful in doing just that. Over many decades of working with thousands of dreams I have found some common associations to various dream images. Read More

Eating in Dreams

We seldom remember eating in dreams - why is that? What does it mean when we do remember? Read More

Dreaming, Racism and the Unconscious

Our dreams regularly give us a symbolic images and experiences which point to the nature and content of our unconscious lives, particularly those things in our unconscious lives that injure and limit us. Because this deep association between light and dark is so deeply collective and unconscious, it is "automatic" -that is to say, it is not subject to thought, consideration, or conscious choice. "Racism" is the direct result of interpreting these instinctive responses to light and darkness literally. Read More

Inception, the Movie - But Where are the Jabberwockies

The day after the movie Inception opened I saw it with a group of fellow dreamers from a workshop I was facilitating. I expected to have a good time. I am a big fan of director Chris Nolan and I loved Memento, The Prestige, and Insomnia, and to a lesser degree The Dark Knight. Read More

Working with Children's Dreams, Especially Nightmares

All children dream, and sometimes those dreams are nightmares. What can you do to help your child deal with frightening dreams? Talk with them. Don't tell them it's “just a dream.” Take it seriously. Read More

Dream Work with the Dying

All the sacred traditions of the world give an especially privileged place to dreams and dreaming as a means of self-understanding and communication with and from the Divine. In addition, every culture of the world reveals some version of the ancient archetypal metaphor: "sleep = death", and "dreams = the experience of the afterlife". Read More