MEDICATION CAN AFFECT OUR DREAMS. In the case of today’s dreamer, her new medication has changed her thinking about an important aspect of her life — her sexuality. Her new state of mind shows up in her dreams.

HAVING NEVER TIMED HOW LONG it takes to write one of these columns, I cannot say for sure. Generally, I write each one over a couple of days. Three if you count the first day of thrashing about, gnashing teeth, pacing, procrastinating, punching pillows and the like. That’s how I get my ideas.

ONE WAY TO GET A HANDLE on the meaning of your dreams is to look for puns or plays on words. What better way to generate a shift in a dreamer’s thinking than to make a verbal shift? Our dreams employ plays on words to turn our thinking upside down, to shake us up and […]

By Carolyn Plath AS I SAT LICKING MY WOUNDS and fingering my checkbook this week, I happened upon this profound quote from naturalist and Thoreau wannabe Henry Beston, author of The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod. “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical […]

MANY TIMES OUR PHYSICAL STATE will find its way into our dreams. So if, on a freezing night, a dreamer’s foot works its way out from under the covers, he may well dream that his foot has turned to ice and shattered to pieces. Today’s dreamer had a similar experience.

I SPENT THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY at Big O with a big man I’ll call Big Bill. He called himself Big Something Else, but maybe I shouldn’t say. It was not how I planned to spend my day. But the right front tire on Mr. Plath’s truck heaved a slow, surreptitious sigh overnight and […]

DREAMS OF HOUSES MAY RELATE TO THE DREAMER’S STATE OF MIND — where she lives mentally or emotionally. Consider also the implications of houses holding key relationships and the qualities they embody.

A FOLDY TOE. OF ALL THINGS. I didn’t see this one coming. You never truly expect all the inevitable crapola that’s coming your way, though, right? Even though you’ve known all along that some telltale stuff is marching, two abreast, straight at you, you manage to look over, under, sideways and down and plain old […]

OUR DREAMS MAY PRESENT US with shocking and gruesome images to shake us out of our passive thinking. Today’s dreamer cannot ignore the ugly truth of her feelings about the important differences between her boyfriend and herself.