5 Iconic Rock and Roll Songs That Were Inspired By Dreams

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A lot can be gained from paying attention to and working with your dreams. The truth is that dreams are not only a means of problem solving but are also an endless resource for ideas and inspiration… in particular, musical inspiration. The most recorded song in history, “Yesterday” came to Paul McCartney in a dream….

I bet you’ve had this “dream”… at least once in your life

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In my career, I’ve been lucky enough to do appearances on morning drive radio all over the country, which has provided me the opportunity to talk to thousands upon thousands of people about their dreams. I’ve done just over 3600 appearances thus far, and in the majority of those I get asked about that horrifying…

Dreams of Wolves

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Remember the big bad wolf in all of those fairy tales when you were a kid? His ravenous, greedy behavior left quite an impression on all of our tender young minds. He gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandma, he blew down two of the little pigs houses and he feasted on Peter’s flock of…

A dream that changed St. Patrick’s life

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!  Here’s a little known fact about this Saint that you may not know… He was born in Britain around the A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family with a townhouse, a country villa, and plenty of slaves. At 16, Patrick’s world turned. He was kidnapped and sent overseas to tend sheep…

The mystery man dream

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You’ve probably heard of the Chinese concept of Yin and Yang. According to the philosophy, Yin and Yang are complementary opposites within a greater whole… the negative and the positive, the dark and the light or the most popular of these opposites, the male and the female. Male or Yang energy is that which makes…

The 5 most common animals in dreams

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Sometimes our dreams are a menagerie of the most exotic and wondrous animals. No matter how fantastical and Dr. Seuss-like or how real and menacing, the animals our dreaming mind presents to us symbolize our primal instincts and behaviors, the way we naturally act or respond to situations without giving thought to it. Each specific…

Don’t ya hate that car drowning dream?

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Don’t ya hate that dream where your car goes off a bridge or a cliff into water, and as you struggle to get out of the car the water rises and you’re certain you’re going to die? Yeah, I hate it too. It’s kind of surprising how common that dream is… until you know what…