"Your nightmares aren't trying to be deliberately cruel. They're the part of you that got tired of whispering, and finally decided to raise its voice."
Most of us have been taught to dismiss our nightmares, filing them under stress or too much cheese before bed, and moving on before they can ask anything of us. In this episode, Stella makes the case for why that instinct gets it backwards.
She also shares a dream she's never told publicly before, one that involved a checkpoint, a stranger's demand, and an image so vivid she still remembers it clearly today. It turned out to be pointing toward something very real, and very physical, that she wouldn't understand for another month.
Along the way, you'll get two things you can actually use the next time a difficult dream wakes you up: a breathing technique used by first responders to calm the body fast, and one simple habit that keeps a dream's message from slipping away by morning.
It took Stella a month to understand what her own nightmare was trying to say. Yours doesn't have to. The night belongs to you again.
The "Dream Sovereignty: Working With Nightmares As Oracles" workshop is linked below:
✭ https://www.honeywomb.com/nightmares
CONNECT WITH STELLA:
✭ All dreamwork courses, classes, & workshops: https://www.honeywomb.com/dreamwork
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✭ Website: https://www.honeywomb.com
✭ Intro & outro music by: Justin Goncalves
