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Bound Up and Breaking Free

While our powerlessness brings feelings of being tied up, literally, the notion of being bound is precisely what gives rise to set us in motion!

While our powerlessness brings feelings of being tied up, literally, the notion of being bound is precisely what gives rise to set us in motion!

When World Events Invade Our Dreams

Psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Thomas Singer discusses how dreams can reflect what’s happening in the world and can sometimes suggest solutions.

Psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Thomas Singer discusses how dreams can reflect what’s happening in the world and can sometimes suggest solutions.

Dreams as a Source of Transrational Knowledge

Dreams have provided scientific breakthroughs and are a source of transrational knowledge. Read on to learn how you can use dreams to accelerate your own personal growth.

Dreams have provided scientific breakthroughs and are a source of transrational knowledge. Read on to learn how you can use dreams to accelerate your own personal growth.

The Great Italian Filmmaker Fellini Was an Ardent Jungian

As an advocate of dreamwork, Maslow would have admired Fellini's involvement with Italy's leading Jungian analyst.

As an advocate of dreamwork, Maslow would have admired Fellini's involvement with Italy's leading Jungian analyst.

Setting the Stage: A Dream of Love and Loss

Our dreams can precisely mirror our waking situation. Consoder this direct correlation between one person's daytime event and their dream.

Our dreams can precisely mirror our waking situation. Consoder this direct correlation between one person's daytime event and their dream.

ChatGPT in Psychotherapy: 3 Case Studies

A new study tests ChatGPT’s potential in mental health support for psychotherapists and patients, including dream analysis, while highlighting its biases and limits.

A new study tests ChatGPT’s potential in mental health support for psychotherapists and patients, including dream analysis, while highlighting its biases and limits.

The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming

Consciously engaging with your dreams can boost creativity and reduce anxiety—and having a lucid dream might be easier than you think.

Consciously engaging with your dreams can boost creativity and reduce anxiety—and having a lucid dream might be easier than you think.

Waking Up in the Waking World

Is life as solid as it seems, or is it fleeting, shimmering, and dreamlike? A single word from Pashto will make you wonder.

Is life as solid as it seems, or is it fleeting, shimmering, and dreamlike? A single word from Pashto will make you wonder.

The Meaning of Houses in Dreams

Among the vital necessities of life, the need for shelter seems to make the biggest impact on our dreaming experience.

Among the vital necessities of life, the need for shelter seems to make the biggest impact on our dreaming experience.

Do Other Mammals Dream?

Studies demonstrate that other animals dream. However, their experience depends on their lifestyle and brain anatomy.

Studies demonstrate that other animals dream. However, their experience depends on their lifestyle and brain anatomy.

The Key in the Dream

Once you connect your dream to the waking situation you're trying to solve, it is always miraculous to see how many sophisticated connections our unconscious mind provides.

Once you connect your dream to the waking situation you're trying to solve, it is always miraculous to see how many sophisticated connections our unconscious mind provides.

Dream Analysis: The Winding Road Out of Addiction

A dream filled with different characters opens the door for investigating all of our potential, right there for the taking.

A dream filled with different characters opens the door for investigating all of our potential, right there for the taking.

Everything You Need to Start Your Dreamwork Journey

To begin reaping the benefits of dream journaling, you need nothing more than a couple of basic items that are, most likely, already in your house.

To begin reaping the benefits of dream journaling, you need nothing more than a couple of basic items that are, most likely, already in your house.

Can a Smartphone App Trigger Lucid Dreaming?

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that appears to increase the frequency of lucid dreams. Here's how it works.

Researchers have developed a smartphone app that appears to increase the frequency of lucid dreams. Here's how it works.

Grappling With Powerlessness Through Dreams

If you are not acknowledging your powerless feelings about stressful events in your life, the appearance of a gorilla in your dream might be just the thing to grab your attention!

If you are not acknowledging your powerless feelings about stressful events in your life, the appearance of a gorilla in your dream might be just the thing to grab your attention!

What Does Your Dog Dream Mean?

Dogs appear frequently in our dreams. Though the meaning of dogs in dreams is always particular to the dreamer, there are some common themes.

Dogs appear frequently in our dreams. Though the meaning of dogs in dreams is always particular to the dreamer, there are some common themes.

Keeping a Dream Journal: How to Evaluate Your Progress

Following your dreams over time carries you along a path of psychological growth that is yours and yours alone.

Following your dreams over time carries you along a path of psychological growth that is yours and yours alone.

A French Toast Dream

When attempting to analyze a dream, staying open to the many ways and meanings we assign to its images can be key to getting to its roots.

When attempting to analyze a dream, staying open to the many ways and meanings we assign to its images can be key to getting to its roots.

Behind the Magic and Mystery of Dreams

The meaning and purpose of dreams has been debated from time immemorial. And the debate continues. In my experience, dream work can be highly instructive and beneficial.

The meaning and purpose of dreams has been debated from time immemorial. And the debate continues. In my experience, dream work can be highly instructive and beneficial.

Scary Nightmares That Try, But Fail, to Resolve Past Trauma

It’s been documented repeatedly that vividly distressing dreams involve an individual’s unfortunate failure to integrate initially shocking memories into long-term memory.

It’s been documented repeatedly that vividly distressing dreams involve an individual’s unfortunate failure to integrate initially shocking memories into long-term memory.

The Vocabulary of Dreams and Dream Interpretation

Dreams reveal their meanings objectively and through symbols and metaphors, often expressing multiple meanings at once. Understanding this is key to productive dreamwork.

Dreams reveal their meanings objectively and through symbols and metaphors, often expressing multiple meanings at once. Understanding this is key to productive dreamwork.

Liminal Dreams: The Creative Sweet Spot

Discover how liminal dream states like hypnagogia can unlock creative breakthroughs by trying simple techniques used by artists like Salvador Dali and innovators like Edison.

Discover how liminal dream states like hypnagogia can unlock creative breakthroughs by trying simple techniques used by artists like Salvador Dali and innovators like Edison.

A Jungian Approach to Understanding Your Dreams

Dreams fascinate and perplex us, but there are two simple steps that can help unlock meaning.

Dreams fascinate and perplex us, but there are two simple steps that can help unlock meaning.

Ketamine Is Powerful, but Therapy Is the Thing!

Psychedelics are not reliable agents of change. Rather they can offer moments of revelation and epiphany, which can be leveraged into change. Psychotherapy is the lever.

Psychedelics are not reliable agents of change. Rather they can offer moments of revelation and epiphany, which can be leveraged into change. Psychotherapy is the lever.

The Gift of Dreaming in Old Age

Socrates’ recurrent dream shows that valuable insights from dreaming can blossom forth at any time of life, all the way through old age.

Socrates’ recurrent dream shows that valuable insights from dreaming can blossom forth at any time of life, all the way through old age.

2 Common Nightmares and Their Hidden Meanings

When the issue is not physiological, explore this.

When the issue is not physiological, explore this.

Different Dreams, Same Conversation

The interior conversations that our dreams are can continue through a night in several separate dreams.

The interior conversations that our dreams are can continue through a night in several separate dreams.

It’s Time to Bring Dreamwork Back Into Therapy

Over the years therapists have largely overlooked dreamwork as a form of therapy. The research suggests we should bring it back.

Over the years therapists have largely overlooked dreamwork as a form of therapy. The research suggests we should bring it back.

Why You Needed the Dream You Had Last Night

Whether or not you remember, you dream several times a night. Your dreams are crucial in enhancing memory, integrating new skills, regulating emotions and healing trauma.

Whether or not you remember, you dream several times a night. Your dreams are crucial in enhancing memory, integrating new skills, regulating emotions and healing trauma.

Dreaming, Play, and Mind-Wandering

Mind-wandering is, in one view, the mind at play. And dreaming is the play of the mind while asleep.

Mind-wandering is, in one view, the mind at play. And dreaming is the play of the mind while asleep.