Deciphering old dreams, gaining insight and why keeping a dream journal is a good idea.

Deciphering old dreams, gaining insight and why keeping a dream journal is a good idea. I’m a bit of a believer in dreams being the way many things (including our own unconscious) can communicate with us, but rather often the meaning is harder to fathom. I’m not talking about those random replay dreams, where the [...]

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A (fairly) light-hearted look at insomnia ~ scourge of my life and that of others

A (fairly) light-hearted look at insomnia ~ scourge of my life and that of others. If there is one thing guaranteed to get people talking on social media (and we shall exclude certain subjects for reasons of simple decency) it’s insomnia. It’s far from a simple subject, as this article from Wiki shows but when [...]

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The Healing Temple ~ a prophetic dream, a memory or wishful thinking?

  The Temple of Healing       Following a dream on one Sunday night about having healing power filling my hands like light or like electricity, I thought that might be it as far as powerful BIG dreams go.   I was wrong.   I was tired from my morning of teaching, and still [...]

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Maundy Thursday ~ calm before the storm and a sense of foreboding

  Maundy Thursday ~ calm before the storm and a sense of foreboding   Some years ago now, I wrote a poem that still haunts my own memory, if that doesn’t sound too self-obsessed. I was walking home late at night after attending a Maundy Thursday vigil and as I walked through our quiet village, [...]

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The hunt for meaning and purpose in life ~ a luminous dream and a hidden vision.

  The hunt for meaning and purpose in life ~ a luminous dream and a hidden vision.   For many, the belief that their life has a meaning is something that keeps them going through the hard times and through setbacks and tragedies. It’s a belief I have long wished to share, and moreover to [...]

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Where do heroes come from? Exploring the bond between writer and characters.

  Where do heroes come from? Exploring the bond between writer and characters.   It’s pretty rare that I write about writing on this blog; in that sense this is far from a Writer’s Blog of the classical kind. But the last few days have brought up a variety of issues and while boiling the [...]

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Mind Body Spirit- the golden tripod

  Mind body spirit- the golden tripod   My recent battle with illness brought home to me how easily upset my fragile balance can be and more than that, quite how acutely sensitive I am to disruptions to my baseline well-being. It’s easy to forget how complex an organism a human being is, and how [...]

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Waking #smallstone 14

  Waking Somewhere inside A clock goes “tick” And I stagger Up the shores of sleep Draped in weeds And shreds of dreams To face the day Blinking Rubbing my eyes And wondering: Where have I been?

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Nightmare (small stone#3)

  Nightmare (small stone#3) I wake, skin prickling with pinpoints of sweat, heart hammering and my breath coming in ragged gulps. I peel back the covers, let the heat out, and immediately cold night air sends me shivering back under the duvet. I focus on my breathing first, slowing it enough to stop the panic [...]

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The Loneliness of the Not-So-Long-Distance Traveller

  The Loneliness of the Not-So-Long-Distance Traveller. Overall, I travel rather a lot for work. But each trip is not particularly long distance, compared with going to say, India or Australia. For one job, I do tours of English locations such as London, Cambridge and a number of other places, as well as my teaching. [...]

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