Back in 2020, I and Dr. Jessica Reis published a paper on the importance of teaching psychiatric residents dream interpretation, and you can email me if you want a copy of that paper, but turns out there is a lot of literature on how important dream work really is–and yet despite that, most institutions don’t have a dedicated course in it. Why is that? And what is the problem here? Let’s get into it! Why Don't We Teach More About Dreams? So, with only a few exceptions, why do

Today’s post is for all you writers out there, or fantasy lovers who just love to talk story and storytelling. I’m going to share a scene-structure technique that I’ve developed over the years of my own writing journey. No, I’m not a best-selling author or anything (yet), but I hope you’ll at least find it interesting. Dreams and Carl Jung's 'analytical psychology' So in this book, the Chidren’s Dreams seminar, the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung, in his prime at the time duri

So, I finished Philip Chase’s Edan Trilogy and I have thoughts - quite a few of them!  So, if you don’t know, the Edan trilogy was written by Philip Chase, a professor of English Studies. So, he is an expert on Old English literature as well as other works such as the Icelandic Sagas, Irish and Welsh myths. Given that I've read a LOT of that material, although I am not an expert in it like he is, we nevertheless have a lot in common since we're also both major fantasy nerds.

What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then? So this poem by Coleridge, written in 1834, expresses a common theme in fantasy (and sci-fi and horror) stories - the distinction between imagination and reality. What is the boundary, and is it as hard and rigid as we commonly think it is? The Boundary So