I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.

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.

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

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

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.

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