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385 — Are Your Dreams Trying to Tell You Something You're Missing With Sarah Janes

Feb 17, 2026
Sarah Janes, author and dream researcher who revives ancient dream practices and runs retreats in Greece and Istanbul. She explores dreaming as nightly sense-making and oracular guidance. Topics include dream incubation rituals, hieroglyphic symbolism in dreams, dream surrogates and healing dreams, the effects of aphantasia and technology on imagination, and practical creative practices to deepen dream life.
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Dreaming As A Collective Sense‑Making Engine

  • Dreaming is a nightly sense-making process that locates the self in space and time and taps a collective, oracular intelligence.
  • Sarah Janes links ancient predictive dream use with a holographic, interconnected cosmos speaking through symbols.
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Hieroglyphs As The World's Multidimensional Language

  • Hieroglyphs encode things, not just sounds, so the world can be read as a speaking surface of meanings.
  • Sarah calls Egyptian hieroglyphs Meduneja — literally 'God's words' — linking symbols and the cosmos.
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Quieter Dreams Signal Self‑Integration

  • As one aligns waking life with inner truth, dream intensity and conflict tend to diminish and the dream-avatar matches waking identity.
  • Reduced dreaming or quieter dreams can signal psychological integration and soul alignment.
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