What are Dreams?

Dreams are the continuing unfolding of our life - a mysterious language of personal metaphors - a giving partner while we sleep.

The Sleeping Brain is alive and well…

Divided into two hemispheres, our brains are actively functioning while we sleep. The left hemisphere is either partially or fully inactive during sleep. It’s offline. While we are awake, the left hemisphere deals with our everyday reality: processes logical, linear rational thinking with words connecting facts and ideas.  Left hemisphere makes decisions, schedules activities, uses reasoning.  However, brain function continues during sleep within the right brain hemisphere. Here’s where the creative fun begins.

The right brain hemisphere actively processes non-verbal, non-linear, non-logical information. The specifics attributed to the functioning right hemisphere are images, scenes and objects that become our unique metaphors, emotion-soaked pictures, patterns and our unconscious. This is the language that brings us our dreams. Our brains produce scenes, objects, persons to represent parts of ourselves and our life concerns.

What is the Purpose?

Almost 80% of our dreams deal with what is important to us about our present life. The images are strange even bizarre, sometimes beautiful or scary, beyond time but feel very real while we’re in the dream. Dreams do not tell the dreamer what he or she already knows.  They do not give us specific answers to questions.  They point to something we need to realize at this specific time in our lives. They seek to make an adjustment in the way we understand things, to address our values, concerns, conflicts, goals, parts of ourselves, emotions and more. They are a source of constant knowledge and surprising gifts. Uniquely yours, they reflect nuanced information from the deeper parts of yourself. Like nature, they are layered and related, swirling with possibilities. You have the capacity to investigate the images and actions as metaphors and use them as a resource to grow. I meet you wherever you begin. You can share even the smallest fragment or single image you receive and it will be fruitful. As people continue dreamwork, they recognize the rich creative ways their unconscious serves them.

Photo: Rush of Color, by Nick Zungoli, https://TheExposuresGallery.com

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