Welcome to Dreaming Fire.  My business is dedicated to liberating the life energy, purpose, and passion contained in dreams.  While it includes helping people uncover the meaning of their dreams, authentic dream work goes far beyond that.  Real dream work is discovering the invitation and the map given by dreaming to live our biggest and most exciting story.  

Dreams come in the service of Health and Wholeness
-Jeremy Taylor

Remember when you were a child and you were excited to live; you had a foundation that life was fundamentally good.  There are several studies that show that peak happiness for most people occurs at age 12 and then declines markedly from there.  Most of us lose a vital connection to what brings us Joy and a sense of Purpose.  Instead of confronting that state we have been conditioned to harden up in various ways and hope that we and our lives will improve in the future.   Perhaps some of us are satisfied with certain areas of our lives like our work, but have given up on other areas of life.  Dreams come to restore our joy and connection; our felt sense of wholeness. 

Dreams are vital communication from our source of wisdom.  They may come in inspiring forms and lofty adventures.  They may come just as naturally in scary forms and disturbing feelings.   Dreams have little regard for our inauthentic ways of surviving our lives.  They cut through our self deception to restore our passion for life.  

We all live lives of great contradiction.  If we pay attention we notice the how really irrational we are.  For example we may want and fight for world peace and yet live with repeating themes of conflict in our own relationships.  We may be generous and kind with our co-workers yet surprisingly harsh and critical with our children or partner or ourselves.
We try to sort this out by trying harder to be our better selves with mixed results.

Working with dreams allow us to generously live inside and through our contradictions.  It is a process of allowing the apparently conflicting energies to transmute and inform each other.  We emerge with a greater sense of wholeness and ability to respond to life appropriately.

Peace of mind, Purpose, Vitality, Intuition, Creativity, Joy, Love

This is the language of dreams.  If you will take the time to learn, you will not only become fluent, you will live inside a world created by it.

Dream Work is Practice

Gary Braun
Certified level III School of Active Dreaming

I first started paying attention to dreams when I was young and had several dreams of the future.  When I got into my teenage years I read about dreaming cultures and discovered that this is a very common dream phenomenon.  In fact many indigenous cultures use dreaming to locate food and water, determine the location of sacred sites, connect with guides in both dream life and waking life, and see  the person they need to be in the future to live a life well lived.  It's on this simple premise I have dedicated my work and study of dreaming.