‘The Dreamer of Dreams’ – Edmund Dulac, 1915.

Which part of this dream is the dreamer of the dream? Is it the woman, the rock, the stars, the sword?

☀️We often view dreams from us, for us, and mostly about us.

🌙Of course, this is partly true! In many other dreaming cultures, the individualistic, personal meaning of dreams is just one piece of the puzzle in terms of their value.

🏔️Dreams can also be a way of listening for messages from the ancestors, from the wider ecology, and even from the future.

🌏There is a re-balancing of the importance of the human in this way of dreaming, so that the human presence in the dream-scene is as a part of the landscape, rather than the landscape of a dream simply being a representation of the entire personal psyche.

🌓Becoming sensitive to dreamscapes in this way can rebalance and re-sensitise us to viewing the waking world in the same way: as alive, ensouled, communicative and with its own longing and its own dreaming.

😴Next time you dream, you might wonder to yourself ‘who is it that’s dreaming?”