Overwhelming uncertainty

Overwhelming uncertainty

Dream: I’ve just driven to Rodney Street (where Mark and I first lived). I’m trying to get to my house but I can’t open my eyes to find my way. I am sitting on the sidewalk feeling so discouraged and helpless. I feel unable to move. I don’t know what to do. A woman...
What is real?

What is real?

Much of dreamwork happens in an imaginary place. Dreams themselves have their existence somewhere intangible. Dreamwork sessions happen in the “real world” but often it feels more like we are straddling two worlds. One is awake during a dream session so it...
The girl in the mirror

The girl in the mirror

Dream: Mark and I are in a car on the way to a vacation cottage. We get there and Rodger shows up bringing two house gifts with him: a beautiful plant and a home-made bread item that he tells me he made himself. I sit down with him at the table and look him in the...
Pain as a door

Pain as a door

Dream: I am in a room filled with disabled people and their families. Many of them are in wheelchairs. Each person in the room is taking a turn to tell his/her sad story. One boy killed himself and there is only a cardboard cut out there of him now. His dad is there...
Joy spot

Joy spot

A few years ago our local library hosted a lecture series. One I attended was called, “Your Energy Body”.  The topic fascinated me and still does today. In one exercise, the participants stood in a circle closing their eyes. The presenter asked us each to imagine a...
Jumping away

Jumping away

Dream: I’m with a boy (we are teenagers) and we are all dressed up to go to some fancy event. We are looking so cute together that I want a picture of us. I go to give my camera to someone to take our picture and before I can hand it to her the camera drops hard on...