Those who lose the Dreaming are lost.
-Aboriginal sayingEven when I am asleep, someone inside me is awake and knows.
-RumiMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
–Joseph Campbell
Tayria helps individuals learn the language of their dreams in private sessions conducted in her office in Weaverville, in weekly Dream Groups, by telephone session, at her Retreats and Intensives. Nature gives us the dream, let’s listen! Dreams always have profound, practical, useful, often healing insight to offer, designed by the psyche just for us, now.
Why work with your dreams?
The Talmud states that “An uninterpreted dream is like throwing away an unopened letter from God.” Whatever we call that intelligence that is bigger than us, it speaks to us in dreams. Every scripture, prophet and world myth has examples of people receiving important messages in dreams. Joseph received Jesus’ name in a dream. Buddha’s mother had a dream that prophesied his birth. Joseph in the Old Testament was treasured by the Pharaoh for his gift of dream interpretation. Einstein received his theory of relativity in a dream. Paul McCartney first heard “Yesterday” in a dream. The list goes on.
Dream group has been the most successful therapeutic experience I’ve had. I’ve always been prone to intellectualize and have a hard time feeling the emotion while I’m talking about specific events in therapy. Also, I can be feeling the emotion but not able to verbalize it. Talking about my dreams and the symbolism and hearing others speak about their dreams and mine helped me bridge the gap between my emotions and my ability to verbalize them and know where the emotions originate. That has been so helpful to me, I can’t tell you.
-Karen Nilsen
New York Times article regarding dream groups published 7/9/10:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/fashion/11dreams.html?_r=1&ref=fashion
Quotes about Dreams
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
–Paracelsus, quoted in The Dream Game
In the beginning was the dream. Through the dream all things were made, and without the dream nothing was made that has been made.
–Thomas Berry
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right…. We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
-Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580
Dreams… are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.
–C.G. Jung, CW 10, par. 317
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
–Sigmund Freud
We can say that dreams are the letters of the Self which the Self writes to us every night – telling us, do a bit more of this, or a bit less of that, or go ahead to the left, or go ahead to the right. And as I say when one looks back one sees there is a pattern in this, as if the Self is having a plan with us, a kind of destiny.
– Marie Louise von Franz
The realization that there was a pattern to my life, one which made sense, came about in a curious way. Shortly after moving into the Villa Seurat I had begun to record my dreams. And not only the dreams but the associations which the act of transcribing them induced. Doing this over a period of months, I suddenly began to see, “To suddenly see,” as Saroyan says somewhere. A pregnant phrase—to anyone who has had the experience. An expression which has only one meaning: to see with new eyes.
–Henry Miller
I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
–Vincent Van Gogh
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
–Jack Kerouac
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
–William Dement
Just a week before he was assassinated, Abraham Lincoln had a dream that he discussed with several people. It seemed that he was walking through the silentWhite House toward the sound of sobbing. When he entered the East Room, he was confronted by the sight of a catafalque covered in black. He asked the guard on duty there who was dead. “The president,” said the soldier.
–The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
I don’t use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
–M.C. Escher
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.
–Ann Faraday
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
–Joan Didion
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare.
–F.H. Hedge
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
–Vivian Mercer
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
–Elias Canetti
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.
–Gail Godwin
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.
–Stephen LaBerge
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.
–Terri Guillemets
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry.
–Michel Leiris
You know that there’s a whole underground system that you call “dreams,” having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar — where you are now, where you’ve always been.
–Alice Munro
When I dream, I am always ageless.
Elizabeth Coatsworth