Name: Dreams
Start: 2026-04-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-04-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: The Sister Brussels Café

PLEASE NOTE: this session will exceptionally begin at 14h and end at 17h
What comes to mind when we hear the word "dream"? 1) Experiences we undergo while sleeping? 2) Hopes, desires and goals we cherish for the future? 3) Daydreaming? 4) Imagining, thought-experimenting, inventing? 5) ...?
How are all these various forms of dreaming connected to our waking, here-and-now lives?
What life experiences have you had that noticeably influenced your dreams?
What dreams have you had that especially affected, possibly changing or even transforming, your life?
How can we maximize the value of our dreams?
How can we maximize the value our waking/here-and-now experiences have on our dreams?
What can dreams teach us about consciousness? [Jef, might you want to add Jung and Freud to the BINGO cards? 😉😅]
How do dreaming and non-dreaming affect self-identity, and vice-versa?
Should we categorically aim to avoid all nightmares (or not)?
Does free will exist in dreams?
Do all dreams carry messages?
(What) can we learn (something) from the "logic" of dreams?
Can dreams predict the future?
(How) can we know whether we are dreaming or not dreaming?
If our waking consciousness would turn out to be all a dream after all, how might "waking consciousness lucid dreaming" manifest itself to us?
"Life, as I experience it, is an ongoing quest to search for, collect and process "dream material": scenes, sounds and events during waking life that will inevitably return later (sometimes much later) during dream sleep, (dis)guised in all various forms and permutations ... only to surface and materialize again in new configurations and new contexts during future waking life. Like the ongoing cycle of breathing, a continual exchange of "dream material" is constantly occuring, oscillating back and forth between waking and sleeping, between consciousness and the unconscious, between past and future." — Alnata Karuna
This session will be an opportunity to share dreams we may have had (or are currently living and/or wrestling with) - in any form and any content, whether seemingly banal or strikingly remarkable - and to explore their roles, effects and significance in our lives.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams
https://allaboutpsychology.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-daydreaming