Dream Journal

There are moments when something in a dream begins to shift, when an image or idea steps forward and carries a kind of recognition, a knowing that is felt deeply. These excerpts drawn from years of recording my dreams come from those moments. Not to analyze the dream, but to stay with what becomes alive within it. As something emerges, awareness expands.


Caught
Karen Lutz Karen Lutz

Caught

Dream: As I’m moving with my heavy gear and climbing tall fencing I see a young man who is stuck on the fence. He can’t move forward because part of his gear is caught on the fencing holding him back. I stop to help him by holding part of his gear so he can let go and then unhook the snag that’s holding him fast. He’s free and now we both can move on.

Dreams can convey many layers of meaning in your life - all of them pertinent. Where in your life might something caught, be asking for your attention, so that moving on becomes possible?

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It’s Time
Karen Lutz Karen Lutz

It’s Time

Dream: I’m outside on the top of the stairs to the client’s front door. My helper is at the base of the steps on the ground in front of me. The freestanding handrail that runs up the middle dividing the stairs breaks off in my right hand. It is made of wood and splits along the grain vertically.

It suddenly hits me that it’s time to let my ‘right hand’ go, that the both of us need to grow in different directions. Other imagery echoes this message and I realize something I didn’t consciously know before.

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I Have To Go There
Karen Lutz Karen Lutz

I Have To Go There

Dream: I’m standing outside in sunlight and in front of me is a very wide area of land going upwards for a long distance. It is obvious that earth movers are clearing the land to make way for a huge multi-lane highway. The ground is rutted with track marks, brown soil, chunks of grass and uneven terrain. I need to go up the slope of land…

Something new is being built and for public consumption. What is calling you to participate?

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Transformation
Karen Lutz Karen Lutz

Transformation

Dream: I turn and see a lioness coming into the bedroom straight toward me. I’m on the bed and the lion lies over me, feeling her full weight on my chest, her warm breath on my neck. I’m thinking ‘What will it be like to be eaten alive?’

Could this symbolize being taken into something larger, being claimed or even consumed by a force that brings about deep and fundamental change?

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Metaphor
Karen Lutz Karen Lutz

Metaphor

Dream: I awaken with the image of a beautiful, strong, powerful horse with muscular legs and neck. It is dark Indigo with purple, where the light hits its hair it is glistening and you can see brilliant rich red, purple and indigo.

A request for strength the night before, becomes a beautiful symbol to companion me on my lengthy, miles long pilgrimage.

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