"Dreams are a laboratory for experimenting with changes in our psychic life... This constructive or synthetic approach to dreams can be clearly stated: dreaming is an endogenous process of psychological growth, change, and transformation" - Ernest Rossi, 1972

"How is a man to know whether his dream is a 'big' or a 'little' one? He knows it by an instinctive feeling of significance. He feels so overwhelmed by the impression it makes that he would never think of keeping the dream to himself" - C.G. Jung, 1938

"In very profound slumber the law that regulates the reappearance of memories may be very different. We know almost nothing of this profound slumber. The dreams which fill it are, as a general rule, the dreams which we forget. Sometimes, nevertheless, we recover something of

"Dreaming about a disturbing experience represents an attempt at mastery. But since attempts at mastery are often accompanied by a disruption in sleep, from time to time avoidance dreams come to the fore, thus preserving the normal pattern & integrity of sleep" - D. Koulack 1991

"Medieval Arabic literature on dreams and visions reiterates time and again the hierarchical polarization between knowledge acquired through the physical senses and knowledge of spiritual meanings acquired through the inner, subtle senses activated in dreaming" - Sara Sviri 1999

"Creative people dream more often of places from childhood than do other people (called age regression in dreams), allowing them to step back in time and witness what they experienced so long ago, with many of the feelings and thoughts of that time" - Veronica Tonay, 1995

"By gaining understanding from the dream, our day life may be affected directly...If we let the day world serve the night world, experiences may come about that feel so intensely real and essential that they directly affect the quality of our vitality" - Robert Bosnak, 1996

The first-floor bookcases are taking shape in the Dream Library - and the upstairs flooring was just installed, so those bookcases are next -

Here's an excellent interview Dan Kennedy gave to Dream Magazine in Japan, talking about the https://t.co/ucMRog161R dream journaling app - it's a deep dive into the functionality of the app https://t.co/Eno1k4FyZp

Here's an interview I did with the Indian magazine This Week on AI and dream interpretation - https://t.co/1sfwLutsbY

More evidence that humans are not the only dreaming species on the planet: The Dreams of a Bumblebee in Autumn

"As a rule, the bizarre in dreams does not upset us... Instead, the bizarre elicits astonishment and even admiration of the kaleidoscopic turnabouts in sleep thought" - Inge Strauch & Barbara Meier, "In Search of Dreams: Results of Experimental Dream Research" (1996), 103

"In many primitive societies there are types of dream-structure which depend on a socially transmitted pattern of belief, and cease to occur when that belief ceases to be entertained... It is evident that such dreams are closely related to myth" - E.R. Dodds (1951)

Here's a new post about how you might respond to someone who shares a dream with you, and you have a very strong insight right away what the dream means -

"Dreams themselves exist in an alternative temporality; when a person sleeps, their consciousness is altered. Dreams represent alternative realities... Dreams, in other words, blur time and reality at once" - Gribetz & Kaye, "Time" (2023), 7

Entries (90 seconds or less) are welcome for the third annual Dream Animation Film Festival, sponsored by the https://t.co/ucMRog161R dream journaling app and the Dream Library - the theme this year is dreams of urban spaces and built realms https://t.co/8dOjPWLirR

"You always have to imagine a dream as like a conversation you overhear on the radio or the phone. Somebody says something, you hear a sentence of a conversation... That's how you should think of dreams. It is always a 'listening in'" - C.G. Jung, "Children's Dreams" (2008), 359

Dreams and nightmares are the focus of the latest episode of "The UnXplained" on the History Channel (s.8 e.2) - among the interviewees are Michelle Carr, Adam Horowitz, Deirdre Barrett, Robert Moss, and myself - the future of the field looks bright - https://t.co/xFoiNbQ2Io

"I propose that through fine-tuning our attention and expanding our awareness of our various types of dreams, our own creator/creation role within the Big Dream can become more accessible to us" - IONE, "Quantum Dreaming" (2025), 14

A stretch of dry, clear weather has allowed us to make big progress at the Dream Library - pouring cement, installing heating, laying upstairs flooring, positioning lights, and filling every inch with bookcases -