Dreaming

I have been doing a lot of Dreamwork over the last few months - and what a rich seam there is to be mined.  My husband has a special an interest in psychoanalysis and dream analysis, so our early morning conversations are very interesting to say the least!
Often we find that our dreams are relevant to each other and insights from one dream can help both of us.
We each have note pads under our pillows to jot down the main points of dreams to help with recall later.
This has led to some strange looking notes and can even become part of the process.  Once my husband awoke from a very vivid dream and wrote down the single word 'Hollywood' - certain that he would remember such a clear dream.  What could he remember in the morning?  Absolutely nothing!  Once I had a very detailed and rambling dream, as mine often are, and wrote most of it out in the middle of the night.  Next morning there was an empty pad - the writing down was also part of my dream!  Fortunately I did remember most of it.  A few weeks ago I woke up and started furiously scribbling down  a dream I could feel slipping away, only to realise at the bottom of the page I had been using the wrong end of the pencil!
 Vicki Noble writing in Shakti Woman talks about group and community dreaming, and I do believe we enter a kind of collective unconscious world when we sleep, so with that in mind, I  plan to share the odd interesting dream here and then reflect on them in a following post.  I have found this to be very useful in these early stages, not to mention good fun - isn't that what it is all about?