I Drew My Dreams for a Week: Here’s What I Learned

How the creative exploration of a week's dreams helped me understand my inner world much deeper than analysis.

Last week, I gave myself and the members of Dreamwork Circle a new challenge. For one week, we would try to draw something from the previous night’s dream. No interpretation, no associations, no archetypal amplifications, no fancy dreamwork techniques: just spend 15 minutes drawing an image from a dream.

I can’t speak for the others, but I particularly enjoyed doing this challenge myself and I’m proud to see that I stuck with it for the whole time. I found the exercise incredibly freeing and fun–especially as I can sometimes get bogged down in my intellectual analysis of dreams.

And while the challenge has only just ended, I thought I’d share some of my insights from doing this exercise. If you’re following my writing, I’m going to assume that you might be a bit of a heady intuitive yourself, so perhaps this inspires you to begin working with your dreams differently.

My dreams in chronological order: Monday (The royal wedding), Tuesday (Love comes and goes), Wednesday (Delhi bar), Thursday (Are we still dating?), Friday (no dream recalled), Saturday (The Porsche truck), Sunday (Conditioner before The Prodigy?), Monday (Sacred reunion).