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The Art of the Dream- DREAMS OF THE FATHER: A TEN MINUTE DREAM JOURNAL EXERCISE June 18, 2013Dreams about fathers are often about authority, traditional values, religious philosophy, and wisdom. They can be about will power, a warlike spirit or the ability to be strong. Father dreams can focus on responsibility, discipline and domination. A mythic father figure might represent intellect, reason, action, power, energy, assertiveness, fortitude, coura […]dreamingarts
- DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: A TEN MINUTE DREAM JOURNAL EXERCISE June 6, 2013Allow Alice to fall into your dream and to wander as an observer though your dreamscape. Listen to her as she politely asks questions of each of the dream images. Faithfully record the responses which may or may not make any sense at all.dreamingarts
- LABYRINTH: A TEN MINUTE DREAM JOURNAL EXERCISE May 27, 2013Like a Labyrinth, the dream mirrors the outer journey by invoking an inner journey. Allow yourself to remain open to the unexpected, the ineffable, the transcendent as you meander with your thoughts on paper in a stream of consciousness. Write in a spiral on unlined paper instead of left to right.dreamingarts
- DR. JECKYL & MS. HYDE: A TEN MINUTE JOURNL EXERCISE May 20, 2013From early on we are taught to polarize dark and light, feminine and masculine, right brain and left brain, passive and active, wrong and right, bad and good. Allow two opposite dream images to speak: Invite one dream image to write in a voice that expresses pent up loss, sorrow, confusion, emptiness, guilt, hostility, humiliation […]dreamingarts
- MY MOTHER / MYSELF: A TEN MINUTE JOURNAL EXERCISE April 27, 2013In dreams, the image of Mother can hold many meanings. She may reflect our relationship with our own Mother, or the archetype of the Universal Mother, the Holy Mother, the Mother Goddess, The Earth Mother, The Terrible Mother, The Devouring Mother, The Great Ambivalent Mother and our Inner Mother. How many aspects of “mothering” can […]dreamingarts
- DREAMS OF THE FATHER: A TEN MINUTE DREAM JOURNAL EXERCISE June 18, 2013
