☾Dream Work

A dream diary and a lucid-dreaming workshop under tonight's Moon: write each morning's dream (or that you remembered nothing) with its vividness, mood and dream signs; practise reality checks, play spot-the-dream, and set a bedtime intention; plan a wake-back-to-bed alarm on a night of sleep cycles; and see your recall and lucid dreams as a field of stars, your dream signs as a constellation, your moods and the Moon's phases. Sort a dream into Macrobius's five kinds, the scheme the Middle Ages used: two that mean nothing and three that foretell. Rehearse lucidity with a dream of your own, LaBerge's way: find the moment you could have known, see yourself back there knowing, and say the intention with a slow ring. Drag along the night to read any minute of it and set the alarm there. As you write a dream, the old dream books' entries for what is in it appear, with what Artemidorus would ask first; and guess whether the oldest dream book of all, an Egyptian papyrus, called a dream good or bad.