FLYING DREAMS EXEMPLIFY perhaps the most exhilarating of all dreaming experiences. Those who’ve had them never forget them. The good news is that there are steps we can take to initiate flying dreams.
Think, Dream, Play: Land of the free, home of the sorta happy
I’M ABOUT TO REALIZE A LIFE-LONG DREAM — moving to the Happiest Place on Earth! I’ve had it with all this marginal joy! It’s just not good enough. Why settle for 16th best? That’s right. The United States ranks 16th among the top 25 happiest countries in the world, according to a study conducted by […]
Send Me Your Dreams: Look back in gratitude
SOME DREAMS OFFER LIFE REVIEWS. Today’s dreamer brings an explicit example in which she sees herself as she once was and is challenged to look back over her life with gratitude instead of regret.
Think, Dream, Play: The Sally Field syndrome
IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE ME NOW, you’d know that I keep my palms up. Between letters, of course. Between pecking out each word on the keyboard, I always turn my palms up. Sure, it slows me down, but it’s what all remarkably likeable people do. So. It’s my habit. Totally unconscious. Palms up — […]
Send Me Your Dreams: Dreams in the ‘Twilight Zone’
ART REFLECTS LIFE — AND “TWILIGHT ZONE” IS NO DIFFERENT! Today’s dreamer has a striking example of art, life and the capacity of dreams to show us more than our waking eyes can see.
Think, Dream, Play: Even cannibals eat healthy
HOW MANY SWEET POTATOES MUST YOU EXAMINE before you find one that looks like your pancreas? Fewer than you might think. You know you’ve done it, right? At Thanksgiving time, for sure: You find yourself in the produce aisle, lingering near the potato bin. But you won’t randomly select the first of those tuberous roots […]
Send Me Your Dreams: Get a handle on recurring dreams
RECURRING DREAMS CAN BE UPSETTING AND FRUSTRATING until you make sense of the pattern of their recurrence. Once the connection to recurring events in waking life is made, the dream’s message is easier to see. From there, the dream will usually disappear.
Think, Dream, Play: Thank you so very much!
BUSHY EYEBROWS ARE BACK IN. Thank God. Or just thanks. Or gee whiz! No more tweezing! When I heard that news, I wasted no time tossing the hot wax. Going back to my Brooke Shields! Even though I have only a few faded eyebrow hairs left, I do appreciate that piece of retro styling. Now, […]
Send Me Your Dreams: Dream advice: Get serious about dreaming
RESEARCH INDICATES that everyone dreams every night. In fact, those who are sleep deprived, and therefore dream deprived, show symptoms of hallucinations in their waking lives! Not everyone remembers his dreams though. Like today’s dreamer, some people report not remembering any dreams for long periods of time.
Think, Dream, Play: Retirement planning
UH OH. I don’t want to sound the alarm prematurely — but I don’t want to be caught flat-footed, either. It’s probably nothing serious. It’s just a twitch. One of those eyelid flutters that no one else can see. It’s nothing really.