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Lou Hagood

Lou Hagood
Location
New York, New York,
Birthday
March 06
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I am a licensed psychoanalyst who does dream play face-to-face or by email at louis.hagood3@gmail.com I will be demonstrating dream play here at OS. I have discovered dream play to be the most powerful of healing visualizations. You can visit my dream blog at www.playingwithdreams.blogspot.com

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JANUARY 1, 2011 2:37PM

New Years Intention

What do I need to see for the New Year?

I am on an island in the sea, then descend in an elevator to a lower level, which is a beautiful land with no water, extending forever. I realize that this land is ungoverned and that I can bring… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 28, 2010 8:54AM

Christmas

I have a damaged credit card, and realize that it is not mine. My AMEX card is hidden in my wallet. I am in St. Albans Cathedral where a Christmas Mass is being held for children. A video of Henry V's speech at the… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 23, 2010 10:16AM

The Corn Goddess

I am back in our old house in Accord, the one from the Heart Man dream posted last week, but other people own it now, and I'm concerned. There is a heavy Spring runoff from the mountain, with water flowing under the house, causing more concern. But… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 10:39AM

Lucidity

I dream I'm sitting at the dining-room table in our old country house with my wife and an unknown man. He does "foreign-currency exchange", and I tell him that I did that for Chase & Citibank in the past.Its late night and I am left with a glass of liquor while… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 8, 2010 11:13AM

Compassion

Yesterday I read the first chapter of Irvin Yalom's book, "Momma and the Meaning of Life," where his deceased mother appears in a dream announcing that it is HER dream. Last night I dreamed that I was telling my deceased father that I could now… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010 11:05AM

Life & death

I dream that am with my former therapist, whom I haven't seen in five years, admitting that there is no death if you never live. I try to conclude, and he waits for me before leaving. I finally say, "There's a cinder in the snow. What does it have to do… Read full post »

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JULY 7, 2010 10:23AM

What's Next?

I'm back from a week at the Dream Association Annual Conference in Asheville, NC. While there I incubated a dream question, "What is next in my life?" and got a dream in response in which I am inside an old stone building and look out the front door onto village life,… Read full post »

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MAY 24, 2010 1:02PM

The Gap-II

When I first met the witch, her arrival was like mist from the sea. She came to me in the underworld and had a different presence than the shades of the departed. The shades are like smoke from a dying fire, while the witch enveloped me in moisture. And cigarette… Read full post »
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MAY 20, 2010 9:09AM

The Gap-I

They come to me in dreams. Why I’ve never known. Blind and sexually challenged, I still get the call. Maybe they think I’ve bridged the gap—between the sexes and otherwise. If they only knew what a curse that has been, thanks to the goddess. She… Read full post »
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MAY 12, 2010 1:05PM

Oil Spill Dream

Recently I dreamed of a numinous, giant pelican, some sort of divinity figure. The pelican is the state bird of Louisiana, where the oil spill is threatening Gulf wildlife. The pelican is also the mythological bird that feeds its young with its own blood.

Any oil-spill or other disaster dreams lately?… Read full post »

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MAY 2, 2010 8:47AM

Love & Sex

This weekend is my daughter's first wedding anniversary, and I dreamed I was listening to her lament her past love life. I got tears in my eyes & told her,"I have found that you have to link love & sex."

Earlier in the night I had a dream… Read full post »
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MARCH 30, 2010 9:40AM

Palm Sunday Dream: Open Call

I dream I'm in a storefront with others, and a large butterfly or moth flys onto my shoulder and wraps its square, colorless wings around my arm. I'm ambivalent, gently remove it and take it out to the street to free it. Out front on the sidewalk,… Read full post »
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MARCH 9, 2010 9:25AM

Birthday Dream & Open Call

After an advanced birthday I dreamed that I had lost my photo ID while on a trip to Puerto Rico. I apply for a new one, realizing it will take time and that I wont make the offshore island, Culebra, this trip. I hope I get the new ID before… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 3, 2010 10:29AM

Nevertheless

Last weekend was my deceased mother's birthday and I asked a dream-incubation question of her, "What words do you have for me?" before going to sleep. The dream response that I got was an image of a rotund man, "too big to get my arms around", and… Read full post »
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JANUARY 7, 2010 11:27AM

New Year's Resolution

My New Year's resolution was to be free. On New Year's Day I asked a dream-incubation question, "What is my freedom?" and had a dream where a man gives me a squirrel hanging from a stick. I see that it is dead and dip it into a stream, then mock the… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 8, 2009 9:54AM

A Shrink's Epiphany. Open Call: What's Yours?

Last night I had a high-energy dream of someone being transformed internally, and was told that "the superego must be integrated". Afterwards, I saw beautiful,multicolored cosmic flowers or Christmas-tree lights that rushed towards me.
 
I seldom dream in color. I have been through three th… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 9, 2009 9:58AM

Dream Play in the Beyond, An Invitation to Play: Open Call

In the previous post, I asked a dream-incubation question, “What is beyond the dream?” After the dream visitations of the Day of the Dead, I asked, “What is beyond the body?” and got this dream in response:

I drive my red Triumph Spitfire (the one that I went… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 4, 2009 10:21AM

Who is the Dream Play Mate?

In the previous post, the quantum leap of lucid dream energy allowed me to finally leave the childhood home of my midlife dream journey. I asked a dream-incubation question, “What is my lucidity?”, and had a single dream image of a man, collapsed, with strings attached to… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 2, 2009 9:48AM

Midlife Dream Play--IV The Ascent

My therapist and guide on my midlife dream journey, Z, retired not long after my dream from the last post, but it took me ten more years to finally leave my childhood home in my dreams. It was not until I was able to become conscious in… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 30, 2009 9:36AM

Midlife Dream Play--III Ilumination

After a few more years of midlife dreamplay with Z, my therapist and guide, I arrived for the session after sharing a dream in which my deceased mother fell to the ground where I took her in my arms and told her that I loved her, and… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 28, 2009 11:18AM

Midlife Dream Play--II The Quest

After a few years of dreamplay and journeying with Z, my therapist and guide, I had this dream:

It's after midnight and I can't sleep. I go out the kitchen door of my childhood home, through the carport, into the backyard and walk around to the other… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 26, 2009 10:05AM

Midlife Dream Play--I The Descent

“I work with dreams”, my therapist, “Z”, told me at our first session at the beginning of our midlife dream journey. I told her that I dreamed now and then, but had come to her because of my interest in the unconscious. We chatted for a while,… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 22, 2009 1:35PM

Midlife Dream Play

It is said that the first half of life belongs to Freud, the second half to Jung. Our first forty years are dedicated to channeling our sexual and aggressive drives to the aims of family, community and economy, heroic efforts--the life instinct versus the death instinct. At midlife the darkness becom… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 19, 2009 12:24PM

Dream Play with the Dead

After the annual conference of The Association for the Study of Dreams in Santa Cruz, I had treatment for my prostate cancer the week of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, and felt under attack myself. At the conference I had told Sven Doerner that… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 13, 2009 11:01AM

Playing with the Divine

During the third annual conference that I attended of the Association for the Study of Dreams, there was a shamanic dream-incubation ceremony. At the previous two conferences, I had been drawn to the shamanic sessions to heal a low-grade prostate cancer and wanted to continue. The dream… Read full post »
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