tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post1290971831516007172..comments2023-04-18T05:44:04.300-04:00Comments on Songs To A Midnight Sky: Recurring DreamsPrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-56730058441829597412007-06-08T06:24:00.000-04:002007-06-08T06:24:00.000-04:00Hi Pris, This post is turning into a short book! I...Hi Pris, This post is turning into a short book! If you'd like to comment on a post related to ME, please do:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://dreams.pjf.org.uk/2007/06/mecfs-depression-and-calling.html" REL="nofollow"> ME, Depression, calling and creativity </A>.<BR/><BR/>I'm hoping for feedback so that my ideas (and friends') become clearer and based on more experiences than our own.<BR/><BR/>thanks, Peterpetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09793902649791239895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-66372725461460919122007-06-03T17:37:00.000-04:002007-06-03T17:37:00.000-04:00Gosh, it was only the other day that Berenice and ...Gosh, it was only the other day that Berenice and me were discussing this...hmmm.<BR/><BR/>I have had one recurring dream for many years now, about 12 years in fact...the time I left nursing...earlier than I had ever anticipated.<BR/><BR/>I am a staff nurse on a busy hospital ward. I am always in charge on the shift but the ward varies, as do my colleagues and the hospital.<BR/><BR/>I am doing the job I have been trained to do with efficiency, but am wracked with guilt and anxiety because I haven't renewed my nursing registration and shouldn't in fact be working!!!<BR/><BR/>In each and every dream I live in constant fear of being caught out but haven't the courage to tell someone my secret.<BR/><BR/>I have always put this dream down to my yearning to return to my chosen career but not having the confidence. When I wake up after one of these dreams I always feel distressed. It's more of a nightmare than a dream.<BR/><BR/>There is a shortage of a million nurses here right now and I keep getting e-mails and literature telling me so, trying to recruit me again. Who knows, one day I might just return to something I truly think I was made for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-91223558703184164712007-06-03T06:41:00.000-04:002007-06-03T06:41:00.000-04:00Hi LyleI should've posted my reply to poems and so...Hi Lyle<BR/>I should've posted my reply to poems and songs here, too, instead of just on that blog, since the Jungian approach carries the deepest meaning to me, too. When I worked a summer between my first and second years of grad school at the State Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois, a man supervised me who had just returned from training at the Jungian Institute in Zurich. He worked there while he built up his private practice in Chicago. For the first time, my dreams opened and expanded for me, taking me into new ways of seeing things, listening to comments on my life.<BR/><BR/>You really have a good handle on yours and the birthing/rebirthing dream was expecially interesting since we know now that babies can encode memories from as early as the womb, pre-language, as well as the birth process...then to have that appear at such a time of import in your life....<BR/><BR/>Thanks for sharing all of this. I love to talk about how dreams work in our lives.<BR/><BR/>PrisPrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-11462335375800817372007-06-03T01:20:00.000-04:002007-06-03T01:20:00.000-04:00Hi, Pris -- I've had many recurring dreams for as ...Hi, Pris -- I've had many recurring dreams for as long as I can remember.<BR/><BR/>Dreams in general have been, for me, a source of deeper feeling for my life, the things I want, the directions I want to follow, a kind of obscure oracle showing me things I've been unable to discern in more obvious form.<BR/><BR/>I've specifically also had recurring dreams of being back in school (high school, college, etc.), and always the building is different, I'm late for class, can't find the classroom, I have a "guilty" feeling that I'm not supposed to be there.<BR/><BR/>I've also had similar dreams about going to work at old jobs where I've worked previously. And dreams about going to my apartment, but the building is different, my apartment is different, I can't find the rooms, the furniture is different, etc.<BR/><BR/>Your comment about your dreams of going back to school really resonate for me. I'm going to spend time with this, the notion that I'm taking myself to school in my dreams because there are still things I need to learn that I haven't learned. (Or being back at an old job -- unfinished business, etc.)<BR/><BR/>All of the dreams of being lost in unfamiliar buildings also make me think of the myths of journeying into the labyrinth and to the underworld. Something in the baffling shadow world that I need to bring back with me into daylight.<BR/><BR/>Although I'm not strongly partisan to any particular approach to perceiving dreams, a couple of books I've found highly useful -- both for working with dreams, and for writing poems -- are "A Little Course in Dreams" by Robert Bosnak, a Jungian analyst, and "The Moon and the Virgin" by Nor Hall, also a Jungian analyst.<BR/><BR/>Bosnak's book is a kind of beginner's manual on the basics of Jungian dream work, talking about the concept of archetypes, some techniques for remembering dreams, and so on. He spends time in particular talking about sorting out recurring dreams, and gives example recurring dream texts. I've found Bosnak's book particularly useful in his suggestions for remembering dreams when you're starting from just the briefest remembered fragment or image -- some of the tecnniques he talks about have helped me find my way into poems I'm trying to write when all I have is a line or phrase or two.<BR/><BR/>Hall's book is an exploration of female archetypes, and deals much with sources of female archetypal images in mythology. She uses poetry throughout the book (by various poets -- Robert Duncah, Denise Levertov, H.D. come to mind offhand) to illustrate many of the concepts she talks about. I found the book deeply useful in understanding many unarticulated impulses and sensations through my own life.<BR/><BR/>The two most powerfully affecting dreams I've had each were centered on images of huge things rising or bursting suddenly up out of the ocean: in one case a massive tall tower shaped like a fist and made of ice, in the other case a whale. The first one (with the tower of ice in the ocean) happened with I was about 13 or 14. In more recent years I'm come to feel that the dreams took me close to how my body has stored the memory of being born. Bursting suddenly from water into daylight. Each of the two dreams occurred at a time in my life when I was going through something like an inner birth or rebirth.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for indulging this longish comment. This is a subject that interests me much.Lyle Daggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-6058187760223148382007-06-01T12:14:00.000-04:002007-06-01T12:14:00.000-04:00Hi, Pris! If you are interested to see what I've ...Hi, Pris! If you are interested to see what I've done with my dreams, go to my About Me page and click on my mind's i.Joyce Ellen Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494251587598676788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-15293909180768377532007-05-31T14:27:00.000-04:002007-05-31T14:27:00.000-04:00Hi Andrew..and Helen, no, you're not crazy:-) It's...Hi Andrew..<BR/><BR/>and Helen, no, you're not crazy:-) It's true that a house often represents our selves in a dream...this of course can't be just asserted. You would have to work through associations to the parts of the dream, but the houses you dream about are fascinating and complex, just as you are.<BR/><BR/>And yes, I'd love to see a related article! Great!Prishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-7101430464200877762007-05-31T13:06:00.000-04:002007-05-31T13:06:00.000-04:00deadmule: The house as the psyche? It sounds good ...deadmule: The house as the psyche? It sounds good to be partly the church.<BR/><BR/>********************************<BR/><BR/><BR/>Pris, thanks for visiting, I'll do a related post when I have time to do it properly :)petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09793902649791239895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-42436840418069446262007-05-31T11:39:00.000-04:002007-05-31T11:39:00.000-04:00Hi Pris,Like you I have recurring dreams about goi...Hi Pris,<BR/><BR/>Like you I have recurring dreams about going back to school. Sometimes one of my sons goes, too. I wander around trying to find my dorm room, classes, etc. <BR/><BR/>I also have dreams about houses. Huge houses that have many rooms. Someone has usually moved out and left their belongings for us. Some of the same house occur over and over. One begins from our childhood perches in the branches of a mulberry tree, then goes up with the rooms getting more and more mysterious as you go higher. Sometimes the tree is not in Joplin, where it was, but in Charlotte, NC, next to the administration building at a school where I taught. Sometime the house incorporates rooms in our church. The floors are all covered with burgundy carpet and have wheelchair ramps. I rote about this house in "The Mulberry Tree." see http://helenl.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/the-mulberry-tree/ <BR/><BR/>There's another house with lots of single beds. Rooms in this house go down instead of up, maybe just a basement. There are rooms like closets full of clothes and toys. My parents and my kids are often the same age in dreams, or two people become one. Nothing about any of this is upsetting. I like these houses.<BR/><BR/>Am I nuts, Pris?DeadMulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-80219416615979836832007-05-31T00:45:00.000-04:002007-05-31T00:45:00.000-04:00I'm coming back when I have time and will really r...I'm coming back when I have time and will really read this. It looks so interesting!J. Andrew Lockharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12567156257114496618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-56356314763726456842007-05-30T15:49:00.000-04:002007-05-30T15:49:00.000-04:00I just commmented on your blog.I just commmented on your blog.Prishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-30634974670341323452007-05-30T14:11:00.000-04:002007-05-30T14:11:00.000-04:00P.S. I use sitemeter - it's good!P.S. I use sitemeter - it's good!petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09793902649791239895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804989.post-64427150839819267612007-05-30T14:08:00.000-04:002007-05-30T14:08:00.000-04:00Do you have any particular approach to understandi...Do you have any particular approach to understanding dreams? Freudian, Jungian, Artistic or whatever?<BR/><BR/>I've recently begun a blog about dreams - feel free to comment<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://dreams.pjf.org.uk/" REL="nofollow"> meaningful dreams </A><BR/><BR/>Petepetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09793902649791239895noreply@blogger.com