Dream Encyclopedia

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

Blindness and Dreaming

What blind people experience in their dreams depends upon when and even how they were blinded. The dreams of someone born blind have different characteristics from those of someone who had a period of being […]...More

Beliefs

Although there are a few beliefs or behaviours that are endorsed by cultures in all parts of the world – such as the taboo against incest and certain forms of murder – there are no […]...More

Archetype of wise old woman – wise old man

Jung classifies the Wise Old Man/Woman as a ‘mana personality’. The word mana is Melanesian and means holy or full of power. They are of course father and mother images, and carry many of the […]...More

Archetype of the Slave

Although in today’s world we may believe in general that we have ended the slave trade, in fact there are enormous numbers of slaves in modern society. The archetype is an ancient one and still […]...More

Adaptive Theory of Sleep

This theory suggests that patterns of sleep in different animals arose out of their relationship with the environment. For instance grazing animals that are prey to predators sleep in fairly short bursts. Adaptive theory says […]...More

Man Who Didn’t Dream

The brain’s likely centre of dreaming was located when a 33 year old man in Israel was examined for causes of a sleep disorder. The man, known as Y. H. was routinely tested at the […]...More

Your Dreams and Understanding this Site

Remember that dreams are just like computer games in which you get very involved and face monsters and kill or be killed and nothing has actually happened – you are still alive and unhurt. But in this wonderfully alive virtual reality of our dreams we are all playing the game of life – the game ...More

A Dream

–Keren2012-02-21 14:24:50 Hello Tony, I wanted to ask you about a dream I had last week… about a big bluebird that ate a small bluebird. I was the only one around and was trying to […]...More

Regrets of the Dying

Bio: Bronnie Ware is a writer and songwriter from Australia who spent several years caring for dying people in their homes. She has recently released a full-length book titled ‘The Top Five Regrets of the […]...More

Imagination and Dreaming

“From the beginning, we must infer, man was a dreaming animal; and possibly the richness of his dreams was what enabled him to depart from the restrictions of a purely animal career. “Did this breach […]...More

Evans, Christopher

In his book Landscapes of the Night, Dr Evans puts forward a new theory of dreaming. He states that our brain has ‘programs’ for dealing with survival. We have basic behaviour programs for walking and […]...More

Dream Process as a Computer

The brain is not a computer, but it has the power to compute. The word computare is Latin, and comes from putare – to think. Neither is a computer anything like a human brain. But […]...More

Body Images

From the moment we are born and experience ourselves in physical and personal contact with another person, we begin to develop an image of who and what we are. The development of this image or […]...More

Vasily Kasatkin

Quote from Dreams – A Russian psychiatrist who spent over forty years pursuing the question of dreams in relationship to the body, was Vasily Kasatkin, who worked at the Leningrad Neurosurgical Institute. Through his study […]...More

Body Dreams

As a person you are a tiny spark of consciousness, a little bit of self awareness riding an incredibly ancient animal you call your body. Remember that your body has formed from cells and genetic […]...More

Using symbols to change life problems

To put this into plain language, supposing painful childhood events had left someone with the habit of building a powerful shield between themselves and others. Suppose this barrier was like a great metal shield they erected every time they felt slightly hurt, thus stopping them from prolonged intim...More
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