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By Langston Hughes I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn.

When I asked for dream symbols to discuss here, one of my friends offered this: “I dreamed a lot about wolves after 9/11, and I

Dream Symbols

Dreams often bring people to mind whom I haven’t consciously thought of in weeks, or months, or sometimes years. Some of these dreams ignite a

By Nancy Powell The wind blows its eternal questions Scattering down the path Of this dear river Streaming across my feet As crows caw endlessly

A couple of weeks ago I asked some friends for suggestions of dream symbols they’d like to see me discuss here. One of the most

Poetry

By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the

Any time a spiral shows up in a dream, it carries with it the resonance of all spirals. In An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols,

We in Western culture tend to have linear models for progression: moving from point A to point B. We use phrases like “the straight and

By Laura K. Deal Rarely, yearly, by some magic she would open the oven beyond its usual limit laying the door down flat against

Dream Symbols

I dream often of houses, sometimes houses I recognize from waking life, sometimes ones created fully from my imagination, and often a hybrid of the