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.

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

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

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.

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

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.