Understanding Dreams

Dreaming

When Dreams Offer Fresh Ideas for Difficult Relationships

Layne Dalfen on October 15, 2025

Some dreams give us an opportunity to break away from our habitual responses.

Some dreams give us an opportunity to break away from our habitual responses.

Dreaming

When Dreams Embody Our Inner Dialogue

Layne Dalfen on September 6, 2025

Here's a dream that gives us a clear picture of what transition feels like until we get where we're going.

Here's a dream that gives us a clear picture of what transition feels like until we get where we're going.

Dreaming

Analyzing a Dream of Being Transported Inside a Wormhole

Layne Dalfen on July 21, 2025

While a wormhole might bring to mind spacey things, in one client's dream it succeeded in bringing things down to earth.

While a wormhole might bring to mind spacey things, in one client's dream it succeeded in bringing things down to earth.

Dreaming

Dream Work: Plotting the Course Through a New Challenge

Layne Dalfen on June 28, 2025

Don't discount the importance of a one-picture dream. There is often much to learn from a single image or scene.

Don't discount the importance of a one-picture dream. There is often much to learn from a single image or scene.

Dreaming

Seeing Through Dreams

Layne Dalfen on May 28, 2025

Images like a lazy river and the appearance of a person in a dream who makes the dreamer feel vulnerable, when put together, can provide the impetus to move forward.

Images like a lazy river and the appearance of a person in a dream who makes the dreamer feel vulnerable, when put together, can provide the impetus to move forward.

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What Others Tell Us in Our Dreams

Layne Dalfen on May 4, 2025

We may be captivated by those in our dreams, but the message is more about us.

We may be captivated by those in our dreams, but the message is more about us.

Dreaming

Preparing for Change

Layne Dalfen on April 9, 2025

How do dreams illuminate our problems and offer information about solutions?

How do dreams illuminate our problems and offer information about solutions?

Dreaming

Bound Up and Breaking Free

Layne Dalfen on February 28, 2025

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!

Dreaming

Setting the Stage: A Dream of Love and Loss

Layne Dalfen on January 30, 2025

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.

Dreaming

The Key in the Dream

Layne Dalfen on December 25, 2024

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.

Addiction

Dream Analysis: The Winding Road Out of Addiction

Layne Dalfen on December 3, 2024

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.

Dreaming

Grappling With Powerlessness Through Dreams

Layne Dalfen on October 22, 2024

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!

Anxiety

A French Toast Dream

Layne Dalfen on October 2, 2024

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.

Dreaming

Different Dreams, Same Conversation

Layne Dalfen on August 30, 2024

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.

Dreaming

Unpacking a Dream of Fours

Layne Dalfen on July 29, 2024

Personal perspective: How analyzing a dream illustrates why the appearance of numbers in a dream can connect you to memories of both people and your past.

Personal perspective: How analyzing a dream illustrates why the appearance of numbers in a dream can connect you to memories of both people and your past.

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The Value of Recurring Dreams

Layne Dalfen on June 26, 2024

Recurring dreams are always an attention-grabber in conversations. Discover the many benefits our recurring dreams provide us, on both surface and deeper contexts.

Recurring dreams are always an attention-grabber in conversations. Discover the many benefits our recurring dreams provide us, on both surface and deeper contexts.

Relationships

Connecting in Divisive Times

Layne Dalfen on June 1, 2024

In these very turbulent times, here's an example of how our worst nightmares, once understood, offer us positive problem solving options.

In these very turbulent times, here's an example of how our worst nightmares, once understood, offer us positive problem solving options.

Dreaming

Dream Analysis: An Ordeal With an Octopus

Layne Dalfen on April 30, 2024

You will discover how getting stuck in a dream can promote movement in life.

You will discover how getting stuck in a dream can promote movement in life.

Dreaming

From Trauma to Tranquility

Layne Dalfen on March 23, 2024

Dream analysis involves finding the solution to a problem you are grappling with. Our unconscious proves sophisticated when a dream's location reveals the next step.

Dream analysis involves finding the solution to a problem you are grappling with. Our unconscious proves sophisticated when a dream's location reveals the next step.

Dreaming

The Beautiful Dream House

Layne Dalfen on February 16, 2024

So often, we look for the personality traits that come to mind from a person's appearance in a dream; instead, try staying open to a specific "time in your life" they link you to.

So often, we look for the personality traits that come to mind from a person's appearance in a dream; instead, try staying open to a specific "time in your life" they link you to.