Your Nightdreams Are a Special Relationship Waiting to Meet You

Here are 3 steps to tap into that relationship

Carolyn Riker
Being Known

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Photo by Aziz Acharki on Unsplash

Nightdreams excite me. Why? Because dreams are a gift from somewhere deep inside of us and a relationship to better understand who we are.

What are our dreams telling us? How do we figure them out?

With some patience and practice here’s how I work with my own nightdreams and with my client’s nightdreams.

First, some dreaming background

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who extensively studied nightdreams and their mysteries. One of my favorite quotes by Jung is:

“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night….”

June Singer, Jungian analysist and author of Boundaries of the Soul is a wonderful resource on exploring Carl Jung’s psychology and better understanding of our nightdreams. For instance, Singer writes,

“the important thing [about dreams] is to record the dream, to pay attention to it, and to allow the dream to speak for itself. It is not even absolutely necessary that the dream…

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Carolyn Riker
Being Known

Carolyn's latest book, The Colors I Hear, is now available!