Dreamwork is overrated. It’s too much time looking in the wrong direction at the wrong time of day.

I’m not saying dream analysis isn’t useful or worth exploring, I often have profound dreams which offer significant insights into my own psychology, and I likewise track and connect my dreams over the months and years, but the unreliable wisdom of bedtime dreams can be comparatively inferior to the reliable wisdom of daydreams, which are sadly overlooked all too often.

Why wait around for an evening dream that may or may not come, half of which you might not even remember clearly?

There are more reliable and insightful ways to proactively explore and integrate your unconscious than evening dreams.

Dreamwork is useful but limited, and is not as magical and mystical as some Jungians or Freudians make it out to be.

The key to intuitive growth is working within the state of semi-consciousness, and it’s not your fault you haven't been taught about the power of working with daydreams - we don’t talk about this, but I believe that we should.

Large parts of our lives are spent in imaginative or semi-conscious states.

We rarely pause to consider how much time we spend in extended periods of visualisation and narrative fantasy, but these private states are important places to discover serious psychological gold.

If you care about self-integration, and actively want to work through your shadow material, then your semi-conscious daydreams are where you should be looking - they are the most readily accessible bridge into active imagination, which could be considered a more focused and intentional form of daydreaming.

Start by tracking the contents of your daydreams.

Pay attention to the things you dream about, and make note of the major themes which keep arising in semi-conscious states so that you are prepared to delve deeper with active imagination later on.  

If you’re an advanced dreamer or already feel skilled with visionary exploration, and you likewise have a base understanding of symbolism and major archetypal figures, then consider creating practices which concretise the symbolically significant aspects of your wakeful fantasies with rituals or routines that integrate the dream material into everyday reality.

You can build your intuition in a structured way, and I want you to be in the happy position where you can drop into active imagination on command and not feel like you need to wait for the right kind of moment or the right dream to appear out of nowhere.

Starting today, I want you to start paying attention to your daydreams and waking fantasies.

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Jordan