As he lay down to sleep one more time in this strange house, he felt bittersweet, but also still angry… Jeremiah was sitting in his grandmother’s chair. He loved that chair! it brought him good memories of a loving nan he’d lost so long ago. It felt like an eternity and it still hurt so […]
Jeremiah’s dreams were pretty strange most of the time. He preferred to daydream, he could control those a bit more. Last night he had an incredible experience with the second room, and he couldn’t shake it off. He fell asleep out of exhaustion, and woke up a few hours later, sweating and searching for answers. […]
I never cease to marvel at my dreams and the dreams that I’ve heard from clients through the years. As I recounted in another post, a recurring dreams, and a therapy process, led me to make the link between the topic I discussed in therapy and the sudden disappearance of these recurring dreams. Through my […]
Jeremiah was sitting on that bench. That same bench he’d sat on every day after school. It wasn’t a favourite spot. Not at all. It was just somewhere to pass time before going back to the place where everything he did was wrong. Sitting on this bench, he could imagine that he did everything right. […]
As I stated in my previous post, What’s in a dream? (The power of therapy), my experience of a recurring dream I’d had for years suddenly stopping after a few weeks of therapeutic discussion with my analyst about a very specific topic, led me to be even more fascinated by dream work. I was already enthralled […]
What is in a dream? That is the question that I pose to you today. Not as a random question, but as one that would trigger your thoughts and lead you to delve into the exploration of the meaning of dreams and how this relates to therapy and therefore to the unconscious. My counselling training […]
In her dreams, she’d usually wake up in her bed, mid-morning, feeling rested and hopeful for the day ahead. This time waking up felt different. The calm before the storm. Usually the noises outside were of cars rushing past, or children chattering away, as they walked with their mothers towards the local school. She didn’t […]
Jenna wasn’t sure anymore if going to bed and chancing a strange dream would be a good idea at this point.
The reality of the place she found herself in was, in many ways, just as unsettling.
At least in her dreams she could wake up and know it wasn’t real…or was it?
As Jenna fell asleep that first night, she snuggled up to her long lost teddy. Forgetting that she wasn’t ten anymore, she did what she always did when she was young. Rocked herself to sleep. When she opened her eyes, she noticed that her surroundings had changed yet again. This time, she’d travelled to a […]
They’d never had dreams like these before. So vivid, yet so unreal that when they woke up they knew they’d just had one. Sometimes, they’d even know they were dreaming from within the dream itself! That might come in handy in their waking hours as well, but that’ll have to wait for another day. As […]