Cultivating Dream Relation & Elucidation

If we want a relationship with our dreams first, we need to believe our dreams are important to us.

Our culture values the rational & tangible and often dismisses/devalues dreams as idle regurgitation of days events. Yet looking for meaning in dreams is key to in-depth psychology, part of a spiritual practice in most major religions and an essential part in many Indigenous cultures.

Dream work is not to be taken lightly as we are integrating our shadow, fears, exiled parts of ourselves and the collective is at play. This may sound scary.

However, I have found a healing wholeness in bringing all of me home rather than not wanting darker aspects of myself. And it is not all dark. Mostly, my dreams are deeply affirming and guiding for me…even ones that were dark at first glance.

When I was writing this dream material, I first used the word dream interpretation but instantly knew that was not what I do.

Sitting and listening within, I asked,

“What is it, I do to understand my dream messages?”

The perfect word came to me:

Elucidation. 

Latin: ex: meaning ‘out of’ lucid: meaning “shine or light”

By shining the light of awareness on our dreams - meaning, connections, and guidance is brought out of the dream… out of our deepest self.