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My Unconscious Sings To Me

and I listen~

5 min readOct 17, 2020

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Anais Nin

Dreams are important for many reasons — including that they can help us compose our lives. We often are able to use our dreams to figure out what is going on in our unconscious — and then using that information to find the best ways, for each of us, to get our lives on OUR track.

But what do you do if you can’t remember your dreams? How can you reach into your unconscious for those messages?

We all dream, but many of us do not remember them after we wake up. Are there other ways we can learn what our unconsciousness has to tell us?

Yes. The “size” of our unconscious is not known and so it is safe to say that probably not all of it appears to us nightly. Dreams are not the only pathway that the unconscious uses to leave us messages.

Dreams, though, are THE popular topic because they are the path that most of us know and understand —

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Lynn Dorman, Ph.D.; J.D.
Lynn Dorman, Ph.D.; J.D.

Written by Lynn Dorman, Ph.D.; J.D.

NYC native, snarky, opinionated octogenarian, educated [with PhD and JD]- I write, I talk, I think, I opine, I teach — and will do so until I can’t.

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