Among the best free things in life are each person's innate talents. It is up to the person to use and develop his or her talents.

Another of life's best free things is dreams. Every human being dreams. Your dreams are yours alone, “for it [the dream] comes from us, is within us.” It is up to you, the dreamer to use your dreams.

Synesius of Cyrene (early fifth century) writes about the “obscurity” of dreams. That is, some of the most valuable meanings of dreams are difficult to understand. How… Continue

Review one or more of your dreams about one or more person in your life after reading the following blog. Comments on your experiences?

The systems approach to interpreting dreams [SAID] is a new dreamwork concept. With a systems approach to interpreting dreams [SAID], instead of having the family or group together as would typically happen in a counseling session, the individual gathers and studies (either alone or with a counselor) dreams about major relationships in his or her life, p… Continue

Dreams bring solutions. Let us know your experiences in finding solutions in your dreams.

Like any worthwhile venture, finding solutions to dreams takes dedicated practice, along with rational reasoning and listening for intuitive insights.

A major outcome assessment in family counseling is problem solving (S. Benish . “Assessing Family Interventions,” In Family Counseling for all Counselors, 2003). A major outcome of use of the PMID model is the dreamer’s ability to discover pro… Continue

Compare your dreaming emotions about a particular issue or relationship with your before-your-dream emotions about that same issue or relationship. How does this help you understand your dreams?

Emotions powered by thoughts are fundamental features of waking life. Emotions powered by waking thoughts are also fundamental features of dreams. A major difference is that dreams guided by emotions paint things on a more fluid canvas and “make connections more widely, more broadly than waking t… Continue

We trust you other dreamers either have or will notice that your thoughts (especially dominant thoughts) are reflected by your following night's dreams. Let us know your experiences.

Dream researchers have long recognized that thoughts passing through our waking minds are tremendous initiators of dreams. In the PMID [Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams] process, we treat thoughts as questions that the dream responds to or answers. The dreamer is able to identify the question(s) t… Continue