Dream Journaling Hobby, Sleep, Science, Applied Faith
What were you doing in the dream? Fighting, I don’t know. I don’t remember it well. Maybe there’s a puzzling line or two a character spoke in the dream. “Hopa, hopa!” What does that even mean? There’s next to nothing to go on, not much to interpret, little to understand. Some dreams are intricate, incredibly…
Sometimes the time it takes to understand a dream is much longer than it takes to have the dream itself. A picture is worth a thousand words. Unbound by physical constraints, unlike other information transmitted through your five primary senses, dreams are more than pictures. They’re communications affecting all the senses. You’re making a huge…
Meditation has become a big business. Venture capitalists are investing millions in it. When they put so much money into it, that means they’re hoping to make a lot back. Meditation has been studied as a treatment for high blood pressure, stress, pain, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, anxiety, depression, and other conditions. Results are mixed…
There’s the old saying, “The devil is in the details.” When it comes to dream interpretation and dream journaling, however, the saying should be, “The angel is in in the details.” The value of dreams is magnified by the richness of the details you can remember. People who ascribe little worth to dreams often don’t…
Lots of people work out. You may feel you work out successfully or not. You may feel you’re in good physical condition or not. Either way, there are a lot of takeaways applicable in many areas of life, especially in these COVID-19 pandemic days. Lessons learned from your efforts to get in shape can come…
Keeping a dream journal may make you feel vulnerable. You have to keep the journal by your bedside. It has to be easy to write them down in order to have the best chance to catch them with a pen and paper. Unfortunately, the journal is there for anyone who goes into your bedroom to…
The phone rung. The dogs barked. A gunshot went off. Whatever happened, you woke with a start. You’ve suddenly sat straight up in bed. Your sleep has been interrupted. The thoughts running through your mind melt away quickly. You now have forgotten your dream. It’s as if you never had one. Just because you’ve been…
Christmas is over but the Nativity story doesn’t end. Today, western Christianity celebrates a time when the Jesus’s family was saved by his stepfather. This incident came to be known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This incident as well as some other incidents in the life of Jesus’s stepfather, St. Joseph, speak to…
Dream interpretation used in this way comes in somewhere at the intersection of art and science like so many other things. It’s building on the work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and others on what we know about how the brain functions. The art comes in applying the symbols you remember from your dreams to your life and your questions.
On the first night, the crowd sat to eat at a long picnic table. On the second night, more guests arrived and sat around the same table, squeezing together. Someone placed a plate in front of each guest. The good plates were being used, the dreamer realized. It wasn’t the everyday dishes. On night three,…