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

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 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.

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

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