We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.

I think that when you go on a shamanic journey, you're allowing yourself to have much more access to your unconscious or your sense of connection within the universe, whatever you want to call that. You've accessed places in your brain that you don't normally. You're still there - it's your brain. But you have access in a way that you normally don't. For me, doing that felt like being in a new environment.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.