The more you journal, the more you tell your subconscious mind that you honor its messages. In turn, you will have more detailed, more significant dreams. Some dreams may even be lucid or prophetic.

Lawren Leo

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top

Virginia Woolf

My grandchildren win the sleeping cutie patootie cover photo for this year's Holy Nights Dream Journaling newsletter! This was from April of this year when I was back to FoCo for a visit before I moved back. I hung out with them last night while Lindsey and Sam were out with friends and we were going to try to get a current pretend sleeping one. Let's just say we had some good laughs but didn't produce a photo with a sleep/dream vibe!

If you are new to my newsletter and you haven't ever tried Holy Nights Dream Journaling, I have included the complete description of how to do it again in the Journaling Prompt box below. It starts Christmas Eve so gather your journal and pen and optional essential oils by your bed, and keep reading for a little more info about what it is and a bit about my experience with it last year.

The way it works is that for each of the twelve Holy Nights you are setting the intention that your dreams will reflect themes that are in your highest good for each month of the coming year.

Each night reflects themes for one of the coming months from a Zodiac year that begins in April and ends in March of the following year. I have done it for the past 26 years. The way it typically works for me is that something will unfold in my life during the year and it triggers a memory of a dream and then I go back and re-read my Holy Nights Dream for that month and discover there indeed is something there that reflects and validates that plan or thought or feeling or event. Or, if I'm struggling to make a decision about something, I will look back at my dream for that month to see if it gives me any clarity. This will make more sense when you read the full description below! I have also included some basic suggestions for increasing your dream recall.

In my Holy Night's dream for September 2023, I had written that my daughter, Lindsey, and I were at a grocery store in another town. In another scene for that month, I wrote that she was on a bike riding toward me and asking me where my bike was. In the dream, we were staying at a fancy hotel and I commented to her that we couldn't keep staying there if it weren't for the fact that it was being paid for by someone else and I was really grateful that we were there. In real life, my son, Eli, and his now wife, Hanna, got married in September 2023. After the wedding, we all stayed at Hanna's grandma's huge beach house in Cape May, NJ for three nights. Lindsey and I were in charge of all the food so we did indeed go to a grocery store together in another town! We also all rented bikes on one of the days and biked to a vineyard in the country to have lunch. And it's true...I was indeed very grateful and we realistically could not afford to vacation at a beach house so close to the ocean in Cape May! It's just kind of fun to feel like certain plans were in the cards long before they were made.

For my December 2023 dream I simply wrote "I can't remember the details but Shonna was in my dream a lot." Shonna is one of my high school friends who was just here for my birthday weekend last weekend and the whole weekend plan evolved because she was going to be in Colorado and wondered about coming up for my birthday weekend. I also wrote that a particular client of mine was popping in and out of the dream for December 2023 and what is true is that person did have some hard stuff up this month and I have supported that person with more sessions than just their normal monthly session. It felt validating that the support this person needed in this challenging time was energy healing and an intuitive reading.

Some of your dreams will be extremely detailed and some may just be one simple flash of a scene. Simply write anything and everything you can remember, even if it makes no sense to you, because when that month arrives, it just might have a perfect message for you.

If you have friends you think would be interested in trying this, feel free to forward this newsletter to them and invite them to subscribe to my newsletter.

In case you are pulling a last-minute number on your Christmas shopping, just a reminder I have gift certificates available for Intuitive Energy Healing Sessions, Personal Recorded Guided Meditations, Zoom Journaling Workshops, and Intuition Workshops. I am teaching an in-person Intuition Workshop on Saturday, January 20, 2024 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM $150! I only have two openings left! If you are interested, reply to this email and I'll send you the info and an invoice.

On Thursday, Dec. 28 I'll be teaching the last Zoom Journaling of 2023 with the theme of Year End Review. More info below for Zoom Journaling for 2024!

May your sleep be restorative, your dreams be visionary, and your dream recall clear and inspiring!

Sending so much love to you and appreciation for you as we bring 2023 to a close...

Steps for Dream Recall

• Set your dream journal and pen right by your bed. 
• Set the intention to remember your dreams. Make statements throughout the day such as "I will remember my dreams". You may also want to write on a slip of paper the intention to have a specific clarity dream for whatever month you are dreaming about that night and tuck it under your pillow before you go to sleep.          
• Just before you go to bed, you can touch the journal and pen while saying, "I would like a dream about (insert month here)....." and promise to work with that dream in the coming year.
• Write the date on the page before you go to sleep, believing you will have a dream to write there in the morning. I always write it as a combination of the date you go to sleep and the date you wake up. Example: December 24-25, 2023
• You may want to anoint your heart chakra (which is the center of your chest) and/or your brow chakra (center of your forehead) with rose or lavender oil (or another oil you like) and while doing so, set the intention for dream recall.
• You may want to light a candle as you set your intention and do your other pre-sleep rituals and then blow it out before you go to sleep.  

Journaling the Dream    

Write down as much as you can remember from the dream, writing whatever comes, in any order. 

Underline the major symbols or concepts presented in the dream.

Draw a picture of any part of the dream to capture your feelings and recollections. 

Lauri Pointer - Energy Healing & Wellness

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