A group of dream researchers I met with this past month are focused on using technology and engineering to tackle big questions about dreams. …
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Over time, dreams appear to help take the emotional charge out of challenging memories while enabling us to retain the information we need to …
Speed is the enemy of depth This January, I was in stormy Santa Barbara at a 3-day dream tending retreat at Pacifica Graduate Institute. …
In clinical settings, nightmares are rarely inquired about, and even less often treated directly. Evidence that this needs to change is mounting. On a …
There is a well-established link between frequent nightmares and a greater risk of suicide, but until now, there has been no sense of specifically …
In focusing with dreams, I usually begin by facilitating a search for helpful elements. One of the most consistently supportive places comes from the …
‘Mary’, a client in my clinical practice, had frequent, bloody, violent dreams and came to love them. She once dreamt of being shot point-blank …
Dreams as Doorways to Possibility: Four ways to open up even the smallest of dreams Have you ever been stumped by a dream? Likely …
Dreams as a picture of the nervous system, and an avenue for state shifts It’s beginning to dawn on me that not just nightmares, …
Nightmares quadruple suicide risk in youth, yet overlooked by most clinicians Scary dreams are common among children, and possibly it is for this reason …
When I tell people I work with and write about dreams, often the first thing they say is, “I don’t dream.” Or sometimes, more …
The content of our dreams offers clues about the state of our nervous system. As we know from current research on recurrent dreams, these …
Dr. L.A. McRae offers impressions of their experience in the Embodied Experiential Dreamwork program Sometimes a class can be truly transformative, and in …
My main recurrent dream is of falling or diving from a precipitous height down a very steep cliff or slope. I wonder if it …
I am always trying to improve my programs, so I asked my most recent cohort how their comfort level and ways of working with …
At long last, my article that takes Porges’ polyvagal theory and the nervous system into account when considering the causes and treatment of nightmares, …
Clinical herbalist Sky Richarde says she is often asked about plants that can bolster your dream life by giving you more vivid or lucid …
“A dream is alive.” Eugene Gendlin wrote this in his book, Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams to describe the ongoing, in-process nature of …
By Dr. Leslie Ellis Emotion is key to understanding and working with dreams. Many theories of dreaming suggest that emotion is what generates dreams, …
There is a lot you can do, and some compelling reasons why you should take action to quell your nightmares, especially if you suffer …
Recently I dreamt I was standing on a rocky, mountainous ridge, the stone an iron colour, like dust mixed with blood. I am looking …
In the world of trauma therapy, a paradigm shift has been taking place over the past decade or so, a marked shift toward embodied …
A timely and compassionate book on treating trauma and addiction using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. Just at a time when the wider world …
