Anticipation: Impacting Sleep and Dreams
While preparing a forthcoming book on sleeping and dreaming, I read a recent book by Aric Prather (2022), a prominent sleep …
On The Street of Dreams: Its Interface with Reality
In this concluding essay on dreams, I explore the interplay between our street of dreams and the real world in which we live…
Dreams are a Many Splendored Thing II: Challenging or Supportive/Extraverted or Introverted
In the first essay, I noted that our dreams are often recurrent. This is in part because we don’t seem to have learned an im…
Dreams are a Many Splendored Thing I: Natural or Transcendent/Transactional or Transformational
Fundamental distinction drawn between dreams that are transactional in nature (addressing issues in the current world) and t…
When I Grow Too Old to Dream
It is never too late to discover something new about ourselves, nor do we need to bypass the opportunity to become better hu…
Going Home Again: Revisiting our Former Residencies in Our Dreams
Like many of the folks from whom I have collected dreams over the years, I often find that homes where I have previously liv…
The Structure and Dynamics of Dreams
I return to my consideration of the general principles that operate when we are dreaming. I focus specifically on the struct…
It’s All About Sex! Or Is It? Reflections on Sexuality and Dreaming
It is time to focus on the “real” content of all (or most) dreams. It is time to focus on sexuality in dreams. Some readers …
Pathways to Sleep: IV Snoozing with a Little Help from Our Friends (Sleep Aids)
We have arrived at the final set of pathways to high quality sleep. There is both good and bad news regarding this fourth se…
I Dreamed I Was Flying: A Developmental Representation of Competence
I wish to introduce a quite different interpretation regarding the presence of flight in the dreams of young people and the …