Journal created:
on 17 October 2008 (#16875083)
Updated:
on 25 July 2011
Membership:
Open
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
Description:
A Space Where We Discuss Our Dreams
Community Rules
1. Respect other members
2. Read the Toolkit below before posting
3. You may post pictures and videos, but use an "lj cut" if you're posting more than one.
4. Mods have the right to delete any posts or to ban members at the sole discretion of the mods.
5. Keep NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content under a cut.
6. No links to any sites unless they are related to the theme of this community
7. Check your tags to see interpretations for dreams with similar symbolism!
Also, since we are a new community please take a moment and introduce yourself ♥
We are also extending this community for a place to share your Inspirations. Poetry, art, writing, photos, lyrics, incantations, prayers, goals or anything else that inspires you. Please use this community as a place to share and feel safe.
When slumber seals our weary eyes,
The busy fancy wakeful keeps;
The scenes which then before us rise,
Prove something in us never sleeps.
As in another world we seem,
A new creation of our own,
All appears real, though a dream,
And all familiar, though unknown.
Sometimes the mind beholds again
The past day's business in review,
Resumes the pleasure or the pain;
And sometimes all we meet is new.
What schemes we form, what pains we take!
We fight, we run, we fly, we fall;
But all is ended when we wake,
We scarcely then a trace recall.
But though our dreams are often wild,
Like clouds before the driving storm;
Yet some important may be styl'd,
Sent to admonish or inform.
What mighty agents have access,
What friends from heav'n, or foes from hell,
Our minds to comfort or distress,
When we are sleeping, who can tell?
One thing, at least, and 'tis enough,
We learn from this surprising fact;
Our dreams afford sufficient proof,
The soul, without the flesh, can act.
This life, which mortals so esteem,
That many choose it for their all,
They will confess, was but a dream,
When 'waken'd by death's awful call.
--John Newton
The Basic Dream Work Tool Kit
1. All dreams speak a universal language and come in the service of health and wholeness.
There is no such thing as a "bad dream" -- only dreams that sometimes take a dramatically negative form in order to grab our attention.
2. Only the dreamer can say with any certainty what meanings his or her dream may have.
This certainty usually comes in the form of a wordless "aha!" of recognition. This "aha" is a function of memory, and is the only reliable touchstone of dream work.
3. There is no such thing as a dream with only one meaning.
All dreams and dream images are "overdetermined" and have multiple meanings and layers of significance.
4. No dreams come to tell you what you already know.
All dreams break new ground and invite you to new understandings and insights.
5. When talking to others about their dreams, it is both wise and polite to preface your remarks with words to the effect that "if it were my dream..." and to keep this commentary in the first person as much as possible.
This means that even relatively challenging and confrontational comments can be made in such a way that the dreamer may actually be able to hear and internalize them. It also can become a profound psycho-spiritual discipline -- "walking a mile in your neighbor's moccasins."
6. All dream group participants should agree at the outset to maintain anonymity in all discussions of dream work.
In the absence of any specific request for confidentiality, group members should be free to discuss their experiences openly outside of the group, provided no other dreamer is identifiable in their stories. However, whenever any group member requests confidentiality, all members should agree to be bound automatically be such a request.
© 1988 Jeremy Taylor
1. Respect other members
2. Read the Toolkit below before posting
3. You may post pictures and videos, but use an "lj cut" if you're posting more than one.
4. Mods have the right to delete any posts or to ban members at the sole discretion of the mods.
5. Keep NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content under a cut.
6. No links to any sites unless they are related to the theme of this community
7. Check your tags to see interpretations for dreams with similar symbolism!
Also, since we are a new community please take a moment and introduce yourself ♥
We are also extending this community for a place to share your Inspirations. Poetry, art, writing, photos, lyrics, incantations, prayers, goals or anything else that inspires you. Please use this community as a place to share and feel safe.
The busy fancy wakeful keeps;
The scenes which then before us rise,
Prove something in us never sleeps.
As in another world we seem,
A new creation of our own,
All appears real, though a dream,
And all familiar, though unknown.
Sometimes the mind beholds again
The past day's business in review,
Resumes the pleasure or the pain;
And sometimes all we meet is new.
What schemes we form, what pains we take!
We fight, we run, we fly, we fall;
But all is ended when we wake,
We scarcely then a trace recall.
But though our dreams are often wild,
Like clouds before the driving storm;
Yet some important may be styl'd,
Sent to admonish or inform.
What mighty agents have access,
What friends from heav'n, or foes from hell,
Our minds to comfort or distress,
When we are sleeping, who can tell?
One thing, at least, and 'tis enough,
We learn from this surprising fact;
Our dreams afford sufficient proof,
The soul, without the flesh, can act.
This life, which mortals so esteem,
That many choose it for their all,
They will confess, was but a dream,
When 'waken'd by death's awful call.
--John Newton
The Basic Dream Work Tool Kit
1. All dreams speak a universal language and come in the service of health and wholeness.
There is no such thing as a "bad dream" -- only dreams that sometimes take a dramatically negative form in order to grab our attention.
2. Only the dreamer can say with any certainty what meanings his or her dream may have.
This certainty usually comes in the form of a wordless "aha!" of recognition. This "aha" is a function of memory, and is the only reliable touchstone of dream work.
3. There is no such thing as a dream with only one meaning.
All dreams and dream images are "overdetermined" and have multiple meanings and layers of significance.
4. No dreams come to tell you what you already know.
All dreams break new ground and invite you to new understandings and insights.
5. When talking to others about their dreams, it is both wise and polite to preface your remarks with words to the effect that "if it were my dream..." and to keep this commentary in the first person as much as possible.
This means that even relatively challenging and confrontational comments can be made in such a way that the dreamer may actually be able to hear and internalize them. It also can become a profound psycho-spiritual discipline -- "walking a mile in your neighbor's moccasins."
6. All dream group participants should agree at the outset to maintain anonymity in all discussions of dream work.
In the absence of any specific request for confidentiality, group members should be free to discuss their experiences openly outside of the group, provided no other dreamer is identifiable in their stories. However, whenever any group member requests confidentiality, all members should agree to be bound automatically be such a request.
© 1988 Jeremy Taylor
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