Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 9 House


If you are indoors, then what would the various sections of a house represent? The kitchen is where we prepare food. Frequently the family eats together there. So a kitchen setting suggests more domestic interactions, more nourishment. This is where we get fed. This is where we remain healthy, hopefully there is enough food there and your appetite can be fulfilled.
If we take basements, it can be a good symbol of [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 8 Outdoor

What we’re going to do in our session today is try and get you started learning about the particular kind of material that appears in your own dreams. We’ve been going through the content analysis, showing you different categories to consider, in terms of, settings, characters, objects and social interactions. Now what I’d like to do is try and give you some suggestions. We made it clear back in the nine [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 7 Content Analysis

Dr. Van de Castle again and today we're going to get into some book learning. So we will take some books, and try and tell you what's in the books because I think there is information that would be helpful to you as you're moving along on your journey toward discovering dreams. We've mentioned this one before, just putting in a plug again about Our Dreaming Mind, the book that I wrote that's over 500 pages [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 6 Elements of Dreams

This is Dr. Bob Van de Castle. We're going to have another video visit today trying to get you more acquainted with the world of dreams and how to better understand your dreams. What I'd like to do today is to use this very interesting painting to try and illustrate some basic points about dreams.

This is a painting I bought many years ago down in Haiti. We had been invited down by the Haitian [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 5 Nightmares

In our visit today we're going to be talking about traumatic dreams and nightmares. A traumatic dream is one caused by something that's traceable in waking life. So you may have been the victim of an earthquake, of a flood, of a fire, of witnessing a murder, of having been sexually abused, of having had a bad breakup in a marriage, so that there would be something you could trace back to and say -- yes this [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 4 Recurrent Dreams

Hi, in this meeting I’d like to talk with you about recurrent dreams. By definition a recurrent dream is one that keeps happening to you repeatedly. Unlike typical dreams, which are dreams that most everyone has at one time or another in their life, a recurrent dream could be recurrent in that it’s happening again, and again, and again to you, but it may not have typical content at all. You may be [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 3 Typical Dreams Part 2


Another frequent dream would be bathroom dreams. Here you ‘re trying to run and find a bathroom, you can’t locate it, you go and the door is locked, or you get in and there’s 20 people waiting ahead of you. So there’s somehow some urgency with that. These dreams are concerned with, if we were to speak in terms of colloquial language, they are sort of are dealing with the “shit” in our [...more]

Dreams Cloud Educational Series by Dr. Robert Van de Castle - Session 2 Typical Dreams Part 1


Hi, this is Bob Van de Castle and welcome to our second video visit. What we’re going to do tonight is to try and go through, as it says here, typical dreams. Now a typical dream is one that most people have. So they would typically dream about these various topics. They don’t have to dream about it frequently to qualify as typical. It’s just that they have had it. So if we were to survey a [...more]