Things Everyone Goes Through

Almost Make Sense

Almost Remember

Almost Touch

Bubble Up

Carry Hope

Chase You

Collect Dust

Come Back Wrong

Come Up In Therapy

Crash

Create Longing

Exist To Be Interpreted

Feel Like Déjà Vu

Feel Out Of Body

Feel Too Real

Feel Uncanny

Fold Back On Themselves

Gather Dust In The Attic

Get Saved For Later

Haunt You

Hum With Almost-Memory

Invite Interpretation

Leave Open Questions

Need A Blueprint

Need A Home

Need A Second Chance

Need Interpretation

Need Watering

Only Happen Asleep

Play On Repeat

Remember By Mistake

Remember You Wrong

Rewrite The Room

Ring A Bell

Shatter

Slip Away

Stick In Your Mind

Turn Over In Your Mind

Wake You Up

dream

imagination

night

orange juice

one-liner

soda

necktie

job interview

grass

haiku

soldier

summer

battlefield

ology (the study of)

phobia

dreaming

atom

materialism

shadow

dreamer

nightmare

Freddy Kreuger

paranoia

working out

dream journal

exercise

is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

(in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

is a kind of rehearsal, simulation, or drill vis-a-vis potentially threatening events. People who have these kinds of dreams will be better able to face threats in their waking hours, because they've already run through these nighttime simulations.

evolutionary theory of dreams, developed by philosopher-neuroscientist Antti Revonusuo in Finland. He suggests that 'the biological function of dreaming is to simulate threatening events, and to rehearse threat perception and threat avoidance.' People who have these kinds of dreams will be better able to face threats in their waking hours, because they've already run through these nighttime simulations. As a result, people who dream in this way will survive more often, to pass on their genes. Unfortunately, this theory doesn't explain my recurring dream of eating brownie sundaes.

is a limbo and dust-hole of thought which have a poetic integrity and truth of their own.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. Carl Jung

is a nightly partner, a relic of comfort from the breast which brings imaginary satisfaction to id, ego and superego.

According to Gamill (1993), the dream provides a shield against the pain of unsatisfied infantile desires and residues from the experiences of the day. The dream brings imaginary satisfaction to id, ego and superego. He thinks of the dream as a nightly partner, a relic of the taking in of goodness and comfort from the breast.

is a part of nature which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can. Carl Jung

is a place where we run through situations and try to select the most useful emotional reactions to them. This is why we feel better about a situation after having 'slept on it'.

Basically, dreams are natural selection for ideas. This can extend to the level of emotions, too. One group of researchers suggest that dreams are places where we run through situations and try to select the most useful emotional reactions to them. Psychologist Richard Coutts suggests that this is one way we figure out the best way to react to situations emotionally, and why we often feel better about painful issues the morning after a night of dreams.

is a process whereby conscious experience moves into the unconscious level where it could undergo psychological work.

Bion thought that dreaming allowed conscious experience to move into the unconscious level where it could undergo psychological work (Ogden, 2004a). We think that dreaming delivers communications about conflict and experience to various levels of the self for conscious and unconscious individual and joint elaboration by significant others such as intimate partners or therapist. We see a dream as an interpersonal event of conscious and unconscious proportions, a comment on work already done and a way to move forward to new areas of exploration in couple therapy.

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