Where do dreams and nightmares come from? The brain, the body, the mind, the soul, the universe, God, or the dream movie production unit at work, nightly, in the depths of our unconscious?
Last week I saw the Pixar movie, Inside Out, (I give it five stars), which included a peek into the dream production studio where the main character’s dreams were being created, staged and screened. It reminded me of my own tongue-in-cheek take on how our dreams are made, which I wrote in my 2003 book, Dream Alchemy (Note 2018: after being in print all this time, Dream Alchemy was updated and republished as The Dream Handbook, pub by Hachette in Australia and by Little Brown in the UK in 2018), and which I blogged, as an extract, as ‘The Dream Oscars’ in 2011.
We begin today’s episode with The Dream Oscars and then move to a more serious look at how dreams are made before changing tone again to explore what we can learn when our muscles, joints, and ligaments release tightly held emotional stress through massage and other forms of bodywork, and deliver the content for processing in our dreams.
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