There Are Benefits You Don’t Realize — I’ll tell you a secret. Even though I’m a high-yielding dreamer and a professional dreamwork practitioner, there are mornings I convince myself that my dreams are too distant or too hazy or too jumbled to bother writing them down. I turn over and go back to sleep. And … every…

The Link Between ESP and Dreams — Since I was a young child, I have suspected a link between extrasensory perception and dreams. The YA books with paranormal themes I loved and voraciously read as a kid strengthened this conviction. Nonetheless, it would be many years into adult life that my unsupported theory (and wishful thinking) would…

How to Recognize Them and How They Help Us Evolve — In my independent study of dreams over the last decade, I’ve come to believe that some dreams are memories of events we have already experienced, but we don’t consciously remember experiencing. These memories sometimes arrive to us intact in dreams, as precisely the interaction we had, but don’t consciously remember…

How to Be Aware of Repeating Events, Dynamics, & Moods — The simplest way of defining cyclical time, especially for the purposes of this article, is the trackable repetition of the events of our lives and history. Most of us already are aware of some very basic examples of cyclical time: the moon phases, the female reproductive cycle, the beginning and…

And Why Bother With Dream Recall or Dreamwork — For years, I was always surprised when friends or family would claim to not remember their dreams. I would be even more incredulous when someone would say to me, “Oh, I don’t dream.” What? How could that be? My dream life was always so active, rich, and plentiful. I had…

How We Fail to Understand Subtle Cues From Beyond — I am, and arguably have always been, obsessed with the concept of time travel. Like most of my generation, I previously believed time travel would require some sort of vehicle a la Back to the Future, or a highly sophisticated method of teleportation a la Quantum Leap. I suppose I…

It’s Critical We Remember Dreams, So We Can Be Grateful We Forget Them — Last night, about an hour after falling asleep, I woke up very shaken. There was a dream, I think. It didn’t feel like a dream. It felt real. I was both witness and participant. My perspective wasn’t first-person, but the intensity with which I felt the despair of the situation…

A Flash Found Poem — October 23, 1999 was the 296th day of the year 1999 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 69 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday. If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi. …

But I might practice it with more intention — Lucid dreaming. It’s a currently popular practice (especially among young adults) — along with reality shifting, witchcraft, and erotic fan fiction — that I wish had been accepted and popularized when I was a teen. I’d have gleefully experimented with all those practices as a younger person. Life would have…