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

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.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

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

I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.

I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.