Dreams: How to connect with your dreams to enrich your life

by Tree Carr

Overview

Discover how to create your own dream practice to help facilitate your work and relationships, self-exploration, soul growth, emotional healing and personal empowerment.

Human beings have a long history of looking to their dreams for guidance, inspiration, spiritual connection and decision making. Kings consulted seers and gifted dreamers for political advice, and tribe leaders took heed from the prophetic dreams of their shamans. Dreams have led to inventions and scientific discoveries as well as the creation of moving works of art.

So why is the modern human so disconnected from our dreams? Our quiet, reflective consciousness has been superseded by the busy, noisy and distractive components of modern culture.

Dreams will teach you how, through simple intent, mindfulness, reflection, record keeping, plant work and lifestyle changes, we can enable a deeper connectivity and understanding of our dream world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783253098
Publisher:	Octopus
Publication date:	12/27/2018
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	28 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Tree Carr is a London-based dream guide, death doula, mystic, filmmaker and musician.

Tree is an avid lucid dreamer and looks to her dreams for creative inspiration, self-exploration, healing and the personal expansion of greater consciousness. She has been journaling her lucid dreams, sleep paralysis and OBEs for over 20 years and contributes her ideas to SpiritMAMA and Seymour Magazine. As an artist, she incorporates her dream practice into her creative work.

Discover more about Tree on Instagram @tree_carr and at www.luciddreamtree.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Dreoming and consciousness

My story

Part 1 The Science of Sleep 16

Introducing the science of sleep

The stages of sleep

Brain waves

Part 2 Sleep Hygiene 30

What is sleep hygiene?

Sleep schedule

Body

Mind

Environment

Plants for improving air quality

Part 3 The Foundations of a Conscious Dreaming Practice 56

Getting started

Mindful intent

Dream journaling

Recording in your dream journal

Dream plants and herbs

Dream tea ritual

A guide to dream plants

Hypnagogic meditation

Dream sharing

Part 4 Dream Genres 100

Why distinguish dream genres?

Compensatory dreams

Decoding your dreams

Dream symbols

Recurring dreams

Nightmares

Learning from your nightmares

Lucid dreams

Mutual dreams

Precognitive dreams

After-death visitation dreams

Conclusion 150

References 152

Index 155

Picture credits 159

Acknowledgements 160