Book Reviews

Night Wings: A Soulful Dreaming and Writing Practice

In 2005, I attended a talk by Sally Nelson, author of Night Wings: A Soulful Dreaming and Writing Practice.

Nelson talked about foreshadowing life experiences in dreams. She suggested we track the things that surprise us in our dreams and that we are really foreshadowing real life events.

She said dreams come from some place beyond the ego and to try to understand our dreams, we can ask, “What is the ego grappling with?”

Nelson kept a dream journal for years and had several dreams that didn’t make sense.

Then, in December 2004, she, her fiancé and their combined children took a trip to Thailand. Her son had been injured before the trip but they decided to go anyway. They were supposed to return home on a certain date, but decided to stay a day longer.

Sally, her fiancé and one of the daughters were on a boat at sea when the tsunami hit. The son and a daughter stayed at their hut.

When Sally, her fiancé, and the daughter returned to land, they saw their hut was destroyed, the son and other daughter were missing.

Sally climbed up the mountain through the rubble – she had dreamed about this.

She found her son. An Asian doctor operated on him (her son had dreamed of Asian men coming at him with knives).

The daughter perished.

When Sally got to the top of the hill, she saw masses of dead bodies and saw the tormented souls crying out. She said something like, “I release you. You are free to go.” And they flew away. I know this sounds farfetched. But she told her story so eloquently, so simply and so honestly that I believe this really did happen.

While trying to find her daughter’s body, Sally looked through tons of photographs, comparing them with corpses, matching names to bodies (again, she had dreamt about this).

Sally and her fiancé ended up getting married during this trip, a decision that had previously been difficult to make. But at this time and place, it was the perfect commitment to make.

Night Wings.NelsonExcerpt of Amazon description of Night Wings: A Soulful Dreaming and Writing Practice:

Sally Nelson helps you put on your night wings with techniques for courting and giving form to your dreams. . . Nelson teaches how to recognize personal and transpersonal themes and characters and how to develop them in your writing. . . In doing so, you foster your own growth . . . She illustrates this exciting process with clear writing examples that will inspire you to take flight with your creative writing.

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