Dream Encyclopedia

The work and effort of years of exploration are shown in these many features. Everything from archetypes to the magic dream machine.

Entering the Silence

I started with images of masses of people. At one point the images were to do with aggressive people, “people who would eat you”. There are people like that. In some parts of the world […]...More

Avoiding Being My Own Victim

If you watch yourself you will notice that whatever you think about you have a feeling reaction to. Obviously it is noticeable in regard to frightening film or dream images. And dreams are only your feeling […]...More

Dreams See into our Far Past

“I am walking along a cobbled road going slightly down–hill. I know as I dream that I am in Italy. I do not feel a stranger in this land, and am learning the language.” Ron. […]...More

Genius

All of us are born with genius as a fundamental part of us. But of course things get in the way of it expressing. Our body for instance, our programming from parents and culture, also […]...More

Gendlin, Eugene

Gendlin asserts that an organism’s living interaction with its environment is prior (temporally and philosophically) to abstract knowledge about its environment. Living is an intricate, ordered interaction with the environment, and as such, is a […]...More

Fromm, Erich

A New York psychoanalyst, stands between Jung and Freud in his view of dreams. In his book about dreams, The Forgotten Language, he says they express both the biological drives and urges which are the substructure […]...More

French – Thomas

Thomas French advanced a “focal conflict” theory of dreams in his book The Integrative Process in Dreams. He further elaborated his views, in collaboration with Erika Fromm, in their book Dream Interpretation. French saw dreams […]...More

Frankenstein

The image of Frankenstein’s creation illustrates what was called in the past the Guardian of the Threshold very clearly. The Guardian, like Frankenstein’s creation, are made of many different people or bodies. We face, in […]...More

Forgetfulness of Dreams

Why doesn’t everyone remember their dreams? This is usually because we are not interested enough. If you are in a crowded room there will only be certain people who attract your attention. Dreams are like […]...More

Foreseeing

Many people report dreaming of events before they occur. Such foresight is often about problems such as death or illness, but can also be about positive things. Example: I have dreams that come true. I […]...More

Flight or Fight

The fight-or-flight-or-freeze-or-faint response, hyperarousal, (or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. Even though the fight or flight response is […]...More

Fantasy and Dreaming

The world of dreams is sometimes thought of as purely a fantasy world, irrelevant to the so called real world. Fantasy, whether in dreams or in waking, is not of course disconnected from the rest […]...More

Famous people – Dreams of

Alfred Adler Alfred Adler dreamt he was on a ship travelling to an unknown destination with all the treasurers he had acquired during his lifetime. A collision occurred, the boat sank, and everything he had […]...More

Faith

Eliot wrote: “I said to my soul be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing: wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing.” “There […]...More

Exercise of the Psyche

Just as our body can become stiff and unstimulated by lack of exercise, so our soul – our mind and emotions – can become atrophied through lack of use. Often everyday life may not challenge […]...More

Erik Erickson

Erikson was a student and teacher of arts. While teaching at a private school in Vienna, he became acquainted with Anna Freud, the daughter of Sigmund Freud. Erikson underwent psychoanalysis, and the experience made him […]...More
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