Dream Encyclopedia

Baby Dreams

What do babies dream about? Nightmares are exceptions. Mostly babies dream about what it is learning, what it is feeling about the world around it, and the ways it is expressing or denying its own creative centre. So drawing, modelling and talking about these everyday dreams is tremendously creative...More

Autonomous Complex

Everything from the deeply loved animal such as the dog in our dreams, or the wolf, to the sadist, the lover, the monk and the business tycoon. If we do not meet these characters and manage them in our life, they will certainly manage us, and lead us into relationship tangles, emotional responses a...More

Australian Aborigine Dream Beliefs

The aboriginal tribes are connected with their local landscape in a way that perhaps no other race of recent times is. The landscape is almost an externalisation of the individual’s inner world. Each tribe had a traditional area of the land which was theirs alone, and it was believed that in the D...More

The Astral Body, Astral Travel and the Dream Body

In other words we create in those subtler dimensions of experience replicas of what we have known in the body. But as we accept the growth beyond limitations we can drop those physical forms and operate as formless and genderless beings. See Levels of Awareness in Waking and Sleeping. ...More

Assisted Passage

DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY - Two people alive and aware together create a totally different relationship than not being aware, or one being aware....More

Artemidorus and the First Dream Dictionary

Dreams of the Insomnium type Artemidorus related to the feelings and concerns evoked by everyday life - ‘The lover occupies himself with his sweetheart, the fearful man sees what he fears, the hungry man eats, the thirsty one drinks.’ ...More

Artists and Dreams

For each of us, our dreams are our own studio in which we nightly create beyond our waking talent to produce the new, the novel, the unexpected and the deeply true. We are each visionaries in the night. ...More

Aristotle on Dreams

He does qualify this slightly by making one of the first historical references to the faculty of lucid dreaming, by saying, ‘often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.’...More

Aristides and the First Dream Diary

In some modern pain clinics, the patients are helped to gradually increase their exposure to pain, even to the point of powerfully moving painful joints and body areas. The results reported are said to increase the persons ability to meet and deal with pain and difficulties....More

Archetype of the Void

The negative aspect of this archetypical experience is the loss of any personal meaning or motivation, the feeling of melting and perhaps even death. The positive side is of tremendous opportunity to live beyond previous limitations and boundaries; the realisation of ones own core existence in timel...More

Archetype of Trickster – Clown and the Fool

Carline Myss points out that another aspect of the clown is the simpleminded character who is wise in their innocence. Such a character is involved within us in many of our life activities, and brings a gentle kindness to what is lived or felt. ...More

Archetype of the Shapeshifter

The balance produces that fully formed and mature man or woman who loves but not in a possessive way; who builds and creates, but is not egoistically tied to their work; who lives, and yet is somehow a lens for something more than human to shine through. ...More

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