Kelly Sullivan Walden - Its All in Your Dreams: How to Interpret Your Sleeping Dreams to Make Your Waking Dreams Come True

It's All In Your Dreams is a fun and fabulous addition to any dreamer's bedside table. You'll find simple and powerful techniques for getting round the bouncer in the brain who tries to restrict entry to the same old gang of limited and self-limiting thoughts. You'll learn how to look in your dream mirror and see yourself as you really are. You'll discover that, if you are bold enough, you can go to a theater of the mind and rehearse for the life review you'll do after death, and bring clarity from that to make better choices now. Kelly is a spirited ambassador for dreaming, doing essential work in helping to create a dreaming culture in our times. Her energy and humor come crackling off every page.

ROBERT MOSS, bestselling author of Conscious Dreaming, The Secret History of Dreaming, and Dreaming the Soul Back Home

For those who use practical tools to study how dreams alter their feelings and aspirations, this book will provide many insights. Kelly Sullivan Walden knows that dreaming is about waking up to a larger life.

FRED ALAN WOLF, PHD, aka Dr. Quantum, featured in the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, National Book Award-Winning author of The Dreaming Universe

My life has been successful and more powerful by doing dreamwork.... For a profound level of healing, empowerment, and life-changing guidance our dreams offer the guidance our soul is truly hungering for. Kelly Sullivan Walden's It's All In Your Dreams is a refreshing new look at the power of your dreams.

LYNN ANDREWS, New York Times bestselling author of the Medicine Woman book series

As one who values dreams (both the waking and sleeping kinds) I can't recommend this book enough. The 5 Portals contained in It's All In Your Dreams will avail you to the life you came here to live. If you are looking for the formula to understand your nighttime dreams so that you can live the life of your dreams, look no further.

COLETTE BARON-REID

This book is not simply about exploring dreams but presents a delightful natural approach to embracing your dreams as a guide in the exploration and emergence of who you are and who you can become. Kelly's five-step approach is a natural way to partner with your dreams to declare, remember, embody, activate, and share the emergence of your true self at the deeper emotional and soul levels. A must read and a must do!

ROBERT HOSS, director of the Dream Science Foundation, President of IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams)

Kelly's book is the key to unlocking your dreams and your destiny. She has the insights, wisdom, and expertise to help you make your most cherished dreams come true.

AURORA WINTER, author of From Heartbreak to Happiness, founder of Grief Coach Academy

This woman is truly dreamy!

RICKI LAKE

First published in 2013 by Conari Press, an imprint of

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Copyright 2013 by Kelly Sullivan Walden

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Walden, Kelly Sullivan.

It's all in your dreams : how to interpret your sleeping dreams to make your waking dreams come true / Kelly Sullivan Walden.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-57324-590-6

1. Dream interpretation. I. Title.

BF1091.W195 2013

154.6'3dc23

2013000158

Cover design by www.levanfisherdesign.com/Barbara Fisher

Cover image: Chagall. Birthday, 1915. Oil on cardboard, 31 39 (80.6 99.7 cm). Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Interior by Maureen Forys, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Printed in the United States of America

VG

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992 (R1997).

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To my niece, Noel Sullivan, may the family legacy of dreamwork/play live on through you... inspiring you to awaken to the truth of the amazing being that you are and the incredible life you are here to live.

And to the sleeping giant within all dreamers: May this book and these five portals inspire you to fall in love with your dreams so that you can wake you up to your ability to co-create the life of your dreams!

In the case of dreams, fact is stranger than fiction. In other words, all of the stories and dreams referenced in this book are true. Some of the names, however, have been changed, to protect the dreamer's anonymity.

Where are the answers you seek?

... the guidance you crave?

... the healing you desire?

It's all in your dreams.

Though we appear to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream... that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

RUMI

W hen you nestle yourself into bed, turn off the bedside lamp, and close your eyes to your daytime reality, your conscious self goes to sleep. Meanwhile, your dreaming self slips out of the covers and tiptoes upstairs to the attic of your mind to explore the enchanted realm of dreams.

Within this nocturnal territory you are transported beyond the ego's five senses to a vast, multidimensional playground of unlimited possibilities. In the realm of dreams you can peruse the tale of your past or future, learn a topic of fascination, converse with a departed loved one, study at the feet of a master, find an answer to a perplexing question, discover the solutions to a health challenge, or explore the larger story of your life.

All this takes place while you are asleep. Yet for most people, by the time the alarm blares and they've guzzled their morning coffee, the exploration of the vast landscape of their multidimensional soul is shrugged off as just a dream. This just a dream scenario can be compared to spellbound lovers on a ship who profess undying love to one another by moonlight and then find, in the harsh light of morning, back on dry land, that the glow is gone. In the swirl of real world demands, the lovers revert to being ordinary, sensible, earthbound mortals, vaguely recalling that something magical transpired on the ocean of their dreams. The experienceso real while it was happeningis now as elusive as wisps of cloud.

But, what if it wasn't just a dream?

Many of us 21st-century, fast-paced jet-setters fall prey to placing undue emphasis on the tangible, the text-able, and the three-dimensional while discounting the magical, the mystical, and the multidimensional. We would do well to learn from our ancestors who lived close to the earth and were in sync with the tides, seasons, and realms beyond the ordinary. Our indigenous grandmothers and grandfathers considered the dreamtime to be when they were most awake. They also believed that a society's mental and psychological health was related to dreaming. The more disconnected from dreams, the more sick and out of balance the society. The more in touch with dreams, the healthier the society.