One insect is a nuisance. A hundred are a crisis. That is the strange arithmetic of the swarm dream: nothing...

There is a difference between a maze and a labyrinth, and it matters for this dream. A labyrinth has one...

It is one of the most frustrating dreams in existence: you try to run, and your legs will not cooperate....

An island is the world’s simplest image of separation: land with water all around it, cut off from everything else....

Everyone has wished, at least once, for a remote control for time. A pause button for a moment that is...

Every color you have ever seen in waking life has a name, or at least a near neighbor: blue-green, reddish-purple,...

A cat’s bite is different from a dog’s bite, and not only in size. Dogs bite as attackers; cats bite...

An alien is the mind’s portrait of the ultimate stranger: a being that is intelligent, present, and fundamentally not like...

There is a particular tenderness to praying for someone in a dream. You are not asking for yourself. You are...

A nail is a small object with two opposite natures, and a dream about an iron nail is almost always...