Dream Encyclopedia

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

Lucid Dreams

To dream with awareness that you are dreaming is called Lucid Dreaming. It is one of the most amazing frontiers of human life. It opens possibilities denied by our phsyical body. You then enter sleep with critical faculties, with active curiosity, and the ability to explore what you find. When you ...More

Lucidity Means Awareness

Lucidity Part 2 Being lucid in a dream is the extraordinary experience of knowing you have carried something of waking awareness into sleep. In the lucid state you can make decisions and do thing that […]...More

Some Truths About Lucid Dreaming

Inception is fascinating film, partly because it turns our view of the world and ourselves upside down. But unless you have explored lucid dreaming you will not realise the huge gaps in the film presentation. So here is the first of a series explaining what it is and how to experience it yourself....More

Time and dreams

J. W. Dunne, after observing several of his dreams that portrayed future put forward a theory about time in his book, An Experiment with Time. He said that usually we only see where we have […]...More

Talking in sleep

Most people who have kept a dog have witnessed it bark while it is obviously dreaming. Talking or shouting during a disturbing or active dream is common to humans also. Some people sleep talk so […]...More

Sleep walking

Very common with some people, especially during adolescence or times of stress. Sometimes accompanied by hallucinations. Sleep walking is normal as an occasional event in children. If the child is agitated, excited or acting in […]...More

Sleep apnea

This is a physiological problem causing the throat muscles become so relaxed during sleep that the passage of air is blocked. So sleep is interrupted hundreds of times in the sense that deep sleep and […]...More

Sex while asleep

This fairly common dreaming experience demonstrates powerfully how dreams are an expression of a self regulatory or compensatory action in the psyche and body. Charles in the example below says he had been restraining his […]...More

Sequential dreams

See: Recurring dreams; Serial dreams....More

Serial dreams

Many people report recurring dreams, but these are of two types. One is the dream that recurs much the same in every feature. The other – serial dreams – are those that slowly change and […]...More

Rocking during sleep

Ian Oswald (as related in his book Sleep, Penguin) observed active rocking in some children and adults during sleep. These rocking movements were very powerful, occurring at a rate of one per second during REM […]...More

Relationship and dreams

Most dreams depict relationship in one form or another. Some dreams however, specifically show you in a particular relationship. Such dreams are usually highly significant in that they reveal aspects of what you are doing […]...More

Precognition

As a part of the human survival ability, the capacity to predict the future is a well developed everyday part of life. So much so we often fail to notice ourselves doing it. When crossing […]...More

Prediction and dreams

The ability to predict is an expression of the human supersenses. As humans we have an unconscious ability to read body language – so can assess other humans very quickly. Humans have an unimaginable ability […]...More

Plot of the dream

In attempting to understand our dreams, it is important to honour their drama or plot. Dreams appear to be very specific in the way they use the characters, objects and environs occurring in them. Example: […]...More

Word analysis of dreams

People often look at the main word in their dream, look it up, and leave it at that. But usually a dream has a main theme and several other images, people, animals or things are […]...More
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