Animation: Experiencing Images as Alive
In Hillmans way of looking at dreams, you go beyond association and amplification to a new process called animation. In animation, you look for ways of experiencing dream images in their living, embodied reality.
Amplification: Discovering the Archetypal Depth
Amplification opens you to the great teachings that are alive and active in dream images. These stories tell about the perils of your situation, the potential positive outcomes, strategic teachings, and the collective wisdom of generations past.
Mindfulness By Day, Lucidity By Night
Today, there’s a lot of buzz about mindfulness, which is wonderful. But we often neglect our sleep and dreams. Imagine how much more your life could transform if you brought mindfulness into the third of your life that you spend asleep! Our dreams are like a movie reel of our own deep unconscious imagery.
Association: Finding the Hidden Connections
Freud’s “classical” approach, and the dreamworkers who followed in this tradition, associated dream images back to events occurring in the dreamer’s past. In this context, “To associate means to find hidden connections between a dream image and past experience.”
The Nocturnal Therapist: Turning Toward Our Dreams
Dreaming is therapeutic. Is there a way to make it more so? Unequivocally, yes. Much like therapy, the more we invest our time and energy into our dreams, the more helpful they will be. This is not a new idea, but one that is gaining a broader spectrum of supportive evidence, moving beyond clinical case studies to include the realms of neuroscience and traumatology.
Nightmares as Healing and Spiritual Gifts: Transformative Lucid Dreaming
Nightmares are healing gifts. They may come in nasty wrapping paper but when we unwrap them with lucid awareness, wonderful transformations can occur.
Nightmare Metaphors for COVID-19
Our dreaming mind is intensely visual, so when it feels fear, it searches for an image to match that feeling.
Turning Toward Our Nightmares
The surprising thing about nightmares is that there is nothing to fear. This is not to dismiss them. They feel absolutely real, and our heart-pounding response to them is also very real.
Romantic Love As a Dream
Jung says that an understanding of each dream requires a new theory of dream interpretation. I am suggesting here that each episode of a romantic love experience requires a new…
The Grey Global Nomad – Part 2.2: Ghost-Riders
This article is the second instalment of Part 2 in The Grey Global Nomad series As we’re sitting around the fire in my Sixties haze, cradling my tiny steady-cam video…
The Grey Global Nomad – Part 2.1: Ghost-Riders
This article is the first instalment of Part 2 in The Grey Global Nomad series The first I heard about them was that they were cannibals. I was told that…
The Grey Global Nomad – Part 1: Mystic Mountain
This article is Part 1 in The Grey Global Nomad series I stare at Mount Everest through binoculars. At first I’d viewed the mountain from the air in a fly-by…