Dr. Delaney will comment on general dream questions in her blog. Of course, as you know from reading this site, no one can responsibly interpret a dream without talking to you, the dreamer. If you want help with a specific dream, schedule an appointment with Dr. Delaney.
my mother dreamed about his neighbor and it was fearful because she dreamed that his neighbor was died and he saw the daughter of his neighbor and she ask it what happen? why are you crying and the daughter said that his father was taken by heart attacked and it dies and also said that they're just 30 minutes in hospital and they spend 30,000(thousand). we're just thinking about the number 30 in my mothers dreamed because i think there's a meaning about it, because the birthday of his neighbor was also number 30...
My dream was with my mom who past four years ago in. Well the first one I was on a hill with her, she was looking at me smilin with her arm around me mean while im lookin at her sayin, mom I dont want to cry im tried of crying please make me stop crying . She just was lookin at me smiling when she did say something I couldn't hear her .
I had a really scary dream last night, like out of the movies, but I haven't watched any scary movies in months. I did just move into my new place about a week ago, its a rental though.
I was in the master bedroom in this huge mansion on the beach at night, it was raining hard with thunder and lightning. In the dream I was about to buy this home but I kept having this strange feeling, like I was being watched and there was something evil there, so I changed my mind about purchasing it. I tried calling my mom and my real state agent but my calls wouldn't go through, I imagined it was because of the nasty weather. I was praying the whole time, I went back to the bed and got under the covers, I kept hearing taps on the window by the headboard so I looked to the left and saw this 7 yr old, pale boy tapping on it right next to the side of my bed. I tried talking to him, trying to find out where his parents were, he then walked down the side of my bed, disappeared and then I felt him under the covers tugging at me as he laughed maliciously, I tried to get him off of me and he just laughed louder and louder, then I just woke up 
Can you tell me what this means? Is it because its a new home and I'm trying to get accustomed to it, or is there something else behind it?
Hello Gayle. My brother Ralph Haney speaks highly of you (Glo-Blades) so I thought that I would ask a question about my dreams which are always vivid. Since I've been on Ambien for sleep, my dreams are
very interesting. One thing I have noted is that most of my dreams have been in relation to some Tv program that I had viewed that week; themes and people were attuned to various shows. I didn't know that until reevaluating nightly dreams a day or two later. But within these structured dreams are relatives or local friends so it makes for some odd, often scary dramas. Guess I might be easily hypnotized? 
Dear Dr. Delaney,
I have been reading, enjoying, and practicing your amazing book, Your Sleeping Genius. Recently, I did an experiment with your method, in combination with Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink. If you have read his book, you already know that both of you are speaking of the same machinery in our brains, although you speak of it with different terminology. The experiment I performed with the combination of the two books, turned out quite amazing. I wanted to relate it to you, and here it is:
Gladwell, in his book, speaks of a capability of our brain to decide complex matter in a blink. He calls it thin-slicing. It is like glancing at an antique statue, and being able to pinpoint whether or not it is a fake, with 95 percent accuracy, but not being able to explain how we came up with that conclusion. He mentions that when we thin-slice, there are signatures, keys, to the topic, which our brain is capable to pick up, but that the process is behind the locked doors and that we inherently cannot access it. Well, having read your book, I thought, if the signatures exist, they are the basis for the search engine of your sleeping genius. So an incubated dream should be able to reveal them to us. What I experimented with, created the loudest and clearest incubated dream I had ever experienced. I think the most effective questions we can incubate are those that ask for the underlying signatures that the search engine works based upon. Here is the experiment:
I hypothesized that if we can thin-slice a specific topic, the machinery must have the key to thin-slice based on. And the dream should be able to reveal it. I am interested in fiction, and when we start a book, very early on, we can decide if we like it or not. So, we do thin-slice fiction, although, if you asked me, I could not explain exactly how I decide if a particular story is "good." So, I incubated the question: What is the essence of good fiction? How do I thin-slice fiction?
The dream came in parts, as usual, showing me different angles of that one-word, inclusive and conclusive, key, so clearly that I even didn't need the interview, for the first time.
In one part of the dream, I was sitting with some family members, and the conversation went on to reveal that: The woman who in the beginning I thought liked me, in fact did not like me at all. The happy person, was actually deep down quite sad. There was an engineer whom we found out was in fact a teacher, and there was a teacher whom we revealed in the end, had secretly broken some pretty strict rules. Then came objects: I was looking for my shoes, and I found three instead of two, but looking closely the third was was no shoe at all but a pail.
The other part of the dream gave me two loud symbols relating to setting: I went walking with my family on a side-walk which was a multi-layer side walk, it branched every now and then into several layers. At each branch we needed to choose which layer we would walk on, and we chose different ones, but in the end it all came together.
Then I was on the beach with some fictional and real characters, human and animal. And there was a huge statue of a triumphant hero. We all thought of a fictional hero we knew, but getting closer and rearranging the statue's ornaments, we saw that it was one of us, a very ordinary character, the triumphant hero. Then from the side of the statue, we fell in water, and one of us, a dinosaur, fell on rocks and broke into pieces, but we reassembled it, and that is how I saw the dinosaur was like topographic maps, made of flat plates of gradually changing shapes. He was made of layers.
When I woke up, the soft morning sun was coming in from the window blinds, in stripes, and the word exploded in my mind. LAYERS!
Layers, is how I thin-slice fiction. Every single part of the dream fits, and when I go back to the instances that I remember thin-slicing fiction, I see now clearly that I thin-slice based on lack or presence of layer.
My point is, asking our brain about those amazing shortcuts that lead to blinks, can bring those amazing capabilities to our conscious awareness, letting us use them more often.
Thank you so much for your out-of-this-world techniques, for revealing mechanisms in our systems which have remained in shadows for such a long time, and thank you for teaching us how to harness them.
Best regards,
Anahita Ayasoufi, Ph.D.
Dear Dr. Delaney,
I have been reading, enjoying, and practicing your amazing book, Your Sleeping Genius. Recently, I did an experiment with your method, in combination with Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink. If you have read his book, you already know that both of you are speaking of the same machinery in our brains, although you speak of it with different terminology. The experiment I performed with the combination of the two books, turned out quite amazing. I wanted to relate it to you, and here it is:
Gladwell, in his book, speaks of a capability of our brain to decide complex matter in a blink. He calls it thin-slicing. It is like glancing at an antique statue, and being able to pinpoint whether or not it is a fake, with 95 percent accuracy, but not being able to explain how we came up with that conclusion. He mentions that when we thin-slice, there are signatures, keys, to the topic, which our brain is capable to pick up, but that the process is behind the locked doors and that we inherently cannot access it. Well, having read your book, I thought, if the signatures exist, they are the basis for the search engine of your sleeping genius. So an incubated dream should be able to reveal them to us. What I experimented with, created the loudest and clearest incubated dream I had ever experienced. I think the most effective questions we can incubate are those that ask for the underlying signatures that the search engine works based upon. Here is the experiment:
I hypothesized that if we can thin-slice a specific topic, the machinery must have the key to thin-slice based on. And the dream should be able to reveal it. I am interested in fiction, and when we start a book, very early on, we can decide if we like it or not. So, we do thin-slice fiction, although, if you asked me, I could not explain exactly how I decide if a particular story is "good." So, I incubated the question: What is the essence of good fiction? How do I thin-slice fiction?
The dream came in parts, as usual, showing me different angles of that one-word, inclusive and conclusive, key, so clearly that I even didn't need the interview, for the first time.
In one part of the dream, I was sitting with some family members, and the conversation went on to reveal that: The woman who in the beginning I thought liked me, in fact did not like me at all. The happy person, was actually deep down quite sad. There was an engineer whom we found out was in fact a teacher, and there was a teacher whom we revealed in the end, had secretly broken some pretty strict rules. Then came objects: I was looking for my shoes, and I found three instead of two, but looking closely the third was was no shoe at all but a pail.
The other part of the dream gave me two loud symbols relating to setting: I went walking with my family on a side-walk which was a multi-layer side walk, it branched every now and then into several layers. At each branch we needed to choose which layer we would walk on, and we chose different ones, but in the end it all came together.
Then I was on the beach with some fictional and real characters, human and animal. And there was a huge statue of a triumphant hero. We all thought of a fictional hero we knew, but getting closer and rearranging the statue's ornaments, we saw that it was one of us, a very ordinary character, the triumphant hero. Then from the side of the statue, we fell in water, and one of us, a dinosaur, fell on rocks and broke into pieces, but we reassembled it, and that is how I saw the dinosaur was like topographic maps, made of flat plates of gradually changing shapes. He was made of layers.
When I woke up, the soft morning sun was coming in from the window blinds, in stripes, and the word exploded in my mind. LAYERS!
Layers, is how I thin-slice fiction. Every single part of the dream fits, and when I go back to the instances that I remember thin-slicing fiction, I see now clearly that I thin-slice based on lack or presence of layer.
My point is, asking our brain about those amazing shortcuts that lead to blinks, can bring those amazing capabilities to our conscious awareness, letting us use them more often.
Thank you so much for your out-of-this-world techniques, for revealing mechanisms in our systems which have remained in shadows for such a long time, and thank you for teaching us how to harness them.
Best regards,
Anahita Ayasoufi, Ph.D.
Hi Dr !! I have just awoken from a dream in which I was at my younger brothers birthday, and my stepmom was trying to make me look bad in front of all of our family an friends. Throughout the dream I was adamant about fixing the issue between us, no matter who was around. I ended up asking her , weeping at that point for a while, to be my mother. She looked at me and said, "it's too expensive" and walked away. Which just made me cry harder.
I am 25, by the way.
Hello Dr. Delaney, I had a dream this morning that really had me on edge. I just had to research and find someone who could interpret dreams honestly. In my dream, my husband and I (who right now is actually my fiancé). We lived in a house with our three children, in this dream, my husband had an affair and the same woman came to our house and tried to kill me. I woke up at that point, because I had to use the restroom. Afterwards, I went back to bed and the dream picked up where it had left off. When the dream started again, this time I was taking a bath, while my husband and kids were in the house off doing their own thing. When I got out of the bath and opened the door the same woman was standing there trying to kill me again. We were arguing back and forth, but neither one of us could touch each other and my husband came around the corner with a gun, because all he heard was me screaming. He saw the woman and asked her what was she doing in our house, I said "she is trying to kill me"!!!. He looked at her, pointed the gun towards her, shot, and killed her on the spot. I woke up and that was the end of this dream. What does it mean. please?
I am very interested in dream analysis. I am interested in doing your Diploma program.
About me:
* have journalied and recorded dreams since 1983.
* have read Jung and friends extensively
* have done as much Jungian analysis as I could afford.
* have had remarkable but hubling success inrtpreting frieds' dreams - Some have had Eureaka moments even when I say not to answer out loud
as the dream might be too private. Humbling because I know that it was your method and the dreamer who interpret.
My question: Could an educated, well-read person do the diploma course and then with INTEGRITY charge to help others with their dreams??
Thank you,
Nic
Renea Leathers 
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