If you want to know more about what dreams can be, consider what the words for “dream” mean in different languages. You’ll find clues here to what dreaming meant to our ancestors, before we lost respect for dreamers and contact with the Dreaming.. How about these: – a dream is “a journey of the soul”…

The wonderful discussion generated by my last post on Dream Spiders brings home how we want to approach every dream as an experience unique to the dreamer, even while it evokes universal themes. Suzette reports that when she is ill a spider climbs inside her torso and starts spinning a web. While this would be…

A woman named Jennifer recently shared a vivid and very specific account of how the behavior of a black spider in a series of dreams has given her disease markers she has learned to take seriously. As she tells it, the sequence includes the following prodromic dreams (and follow-up events): 1. “I am standing in…

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries? – Amelia Earhart I just watched Hilary Swank’s stunning performance as this brave and forever boundary-pushing flier in the movie “Amelia”. And it struck me that Hilary herself is a stellar…

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