Listening
When the Answer Begins to Unfold
When a question is formed with care, the answer doesn't need to be forced - it begins to unfold.
Phyllis Hampton
Dreaming Mind
Image as Intelligence
Images are often treated as decorations of thought—secondary, symbolic, or merely illustrative. But in the dreaming mind, image is not an accessory to meaning. It is meaning. Before language forms, before narrative organizes, before explanation becomes possible, awareness moves through image. This is why dreams speak in image. Not
Dreaming Mind
Dreams as Movements of Awareness
Dreams as Movements of Awareness Dreams are often treated as objects—things we have, things we remember, things we try to understand. But in lived experience, dreams are not static. They move. They arise, shift, dissolve, rearrange, and return. They form and reform. They do not present themselves as finished
Dreaming Mind
The Dreaming Mind
Orientation This space is devoted to listening to the language of the dreaming mind, as it moves through both dreams and lived participation in life. Dreams are not puzzles to be solved, nor messages to be decoded. They are movements of awareness, speaking in image, sensation, memory, and metaphor. They
Being Human
Letting Words be Ordinary
There is a subtle moment that arrives after clarity settles, when the words begin to feel heavier than what they’re trying to carry. Not because they are wrong, but because they are watched too closely. I notice this when I start wondering what a sentence might do once it
Being Human
Standing Without Winning
There was a time when I believed that clarity required alignment— that if I stood somewhere clearly enough, others would eventually stand there too. If not immediately, then through explanation, patience, or proof. I don’t hold that belief anymore. What has settled for me is simpler and quieter: where
Being Human
Choosing Where to Stand
For a long time, I believed that if I offered something into the world, it needed to carry weight. Meaning needed to be secured. The offering needed to be complete, defensible, and worthy of taking up space. I’m beginning to see that this belief wasn’t responsibility—it was
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The Dreaming Mind is writing that listens to dreams and to participation in life as movements of awareness—through image, sensation, memory, and felt experience—rather than treating them as problems to be solved or messages to be decoded. At times, a small voice from within asks to be recognized