Dream Institute Events for May
The Dream Institute of Northern California, located in Berkeley, CA, lists the following events on its calendar for May:
Culture Dreaming (SM) Saturday May 3
Collage Workshop Sunday May 4
Extraordinary Dream States Monday May 5
Cinema Dreaming Fellini’s 8 ½ Friday May 9
Community Dream Council Friday May 16
Members Only Buffet Sunday May 18
With guest Prof. Jonathan De Vierville, talking on “Spa Cultures, Dreams & Healing Waters”
Extraordinary Dream States Monday May 19
Further details at:
http://dream-institute.org/idx_calendar.htm
Robert Moss Weekend Dream Workshop in Illinois
Healing through the Imagination
Weekend Workshop with Robert Moss
Orrington Hotel, Evanston, Illinois
May 17 & 18, 2008
10-5 Saturday, 10-4 Sunday
About the Workshop: We can reach inner sources of healing and bring them to work in our bodies and our lives through the practice of imagination, that great faculty of soul which (as William Blake said) can create worlds. The practice of imagination involves developing personal images that help our bodies stay well and give us juice in our life journeys. The body believes in imagery; it does not seem to distinguish between a physical event and a powerful image. Where do we get the imagery that works for us? In this fun, high-energy class, we’ll learn how to harvest fresh and custom-designed imagery for healing from dreams, meditation and creative flow. With the aid of focused intention and heartbeat shamanic drumming, we’ll embark on a hyper-awake dream journey to discover an inner space for self-healing to which we can return. We’ll remember that healing comes through when we tap into the deeper story of our lives. Joseph Campbell maintained, correctly, that healing is what happens when we move “beyond suffering into myth.” We’ll learn to tell better stories, drop our negative mantras and self-limiting beliefs and claim the power of reinventing our lives and our world
About Robert Moss: Robert Moss is a world authority on dreams, a bestselling novelist and a former magazine editor and professor of ancient history at the Australian National University. His deep engagement with the Dreamtime springs from his early childhood in Australia, where he survived a series of near-death experiences. He is a popular lecturer, creativity coach and radio talk show host. He teaches Active Dreaming–his pioneer synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism–all over the world and is the founder of the School of Active Dreaming, which trains teachers and facilitators. His many books include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates and The Three Only Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination. He has also produced the DVD series The Way of the Dreamer and the popular Sounds True audio series Dream Gates: A Journey into Active Dreaming. Visit his website at www. mossdreams. com.
Source: Events list at the International Association for the Study of Dreams site (http://www.asdreams.org/)
Separate Beds for a Better Night’s Sleep?
The Sleep Council says that one in four of us regularly retreats to a spare room or sofa for a refreshing night’s sleep, and the National Association of Home Builders predicts that by 2015 more than 60 per cent of custom-built houses will have dual master bedrooms. This is the right approach, say an increasing number of psychologists and sleep experts.
That, according to an article from the TimesOnline. The article goes on to point to a host of sleep disruptors such as snoring, wrestling for the covers, kicking during dreams, and incompatible sleep schedules, among others. The article also includes a “case study” of a couple with sleep compatibility challenges, with advice from an expert.
If you’re experiencing sleep-related challenges with your bed partner, the question is: Are you secure enough in your relationship to consider sleeping apart?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/
health/article3593222.ece
Delany & Flowers Dream Center Offers Courses and Workshops
The Delaney & Flowers Dream Center in the San Francisco area offers the following monthly dream workshop, along with many other dream-related opportunities for local residents as well as out-of-town students.
The weekly Tuesday evening workshop explores the Dream Interview Method of dream interpretation:
Beginning students use this course as an introduction to the Dream Interview Method. Intermediate students find it a source of continuing motivation and an opportunity to practice. Advanced students use it to review and refine their skills. Dreamers can participate on a monthly basis or in a three, six, or twelve month series costing from $30 to $50 per session. Practice in beginner to advanced Dream Interview levels.
Further details about this and many other events are included on Gayle Delaney’s site:
www.gdelaney.com/studywithus.htm#ttw
Been Dreaming about the Political Candidates?
So have other people. Read more about what people are dreaming about the candidates at:
http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2008/03/10/the-i-dream-of-genie
Also, Bernard Welt explores dreams about the candidates at:
www.idreamofhillaryidreamofbarack.com/analysis3.html
More about candidate dreams at:
www.idreamofhillaryidreamofbarack.com
Dream-Related Graduate Programs
If you’re looking for dream-related graduate study, here’s a great resource. This page lists sources of graduate-level dream study (although not all are full dream programs).
www.asdreams.org/subidxedugraduatestudies_98.htm
Dream Dictionary Grows Again
More symbols have been added to the Curious Dreamer Dream Dictionary, bringing the total number of dream symbols defined to 15215. The latest symbol suggestions came from the most-frequently requested dream symbols list, which is automatically compiled from dream dictionary searches resulting in a “not found” message.
The latest symbol additions include:
Put a Little Curious Dreamer on your Site
We’ve developed a new Google Gadget that you can place on your site or blog. Just follow this link to Google and get the code. Paste the code into the HTML on your page…that’s all there is to it.
Try it out!
Want to Lose Weight? Be Happier? Try Sleeping More!!
According to an article in the Contra Costa Times, sleeping too little can cause weight gain and diabetes. The article says:
A recent study published in the journal SLEEP found that people who reported sleeping five or fewer hours a night were much more likely to develop diabetes than those who reported sleeping seven hours. In fact, chronic sleep deprivation can lead to obesity, because the sleep-deprived body produces less of the hormone leptin, which makes you feel full, and more of the hormone grehlin, which makes you feel hungry.
The article also mentions that sleep boosts your immune system and improves your mood and, according to some accounts, can actually lengthen your life.
According to the article, our non-REM sleep is important for repair of the body, while REM sleep (during which dreams occur) can help us cope with stress:
A good night’s sleep follows a distinct pattern, alternating between so-called REM sleep (characterized by the rapid eye movements that accompany it), and non-REM sleep. During non-REM sleep, our breathing slows, blood pressure drops, muscles relax, and our bodies release hormones such as growth hormone, which builds and repairs tissue and helps keeps skin healthy. In REM sleep we dream, which may help us cope with stressful events.
Read the full article at:
www.contracostatimes.com/ci_8404779?source=most_emailed
Washington, DC, Exhibition Features a “Dreams” Series
An exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, titled “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image,” includes “Part I: Dreams,” which explores film’s ability to move us between everyday reality and “the darker recesses of the imagination and fantasy.”
Dates: Feb. 14, - May 11, 2008
From the International Associate of Dreams web site:
This two-part exhibition features moving-image artworks by a range of influential and emerging international artists whose works use film language and technology to explore the ever-increasing impact of the cinematic on our perceptions and the ways in which the very boundaries between “real life” and make-believe have become at least blurred, if not indecipherable.
The first the series, “Dreams,” addresses film’s ability to transport us out of our everyday lives and into a dream world. Using a series of artists’ installations, the exhibition moves us through the different stages of consciousness and dreaming, from those moments between wakefulness and sleep to the darker recesses of the imagination and fantasy. “Dreams” is curated by chief curator, Kerry Brougher and associate curator, Kelly Gordon.
For more information, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/2q8vj9
