Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Once you build agency in your dreams, those skills don’t stay in the dream world.

Nightmares can sometimes reflect unresolved experiences from waking life. By consciously re-imagining the outcome of a dream — changing the ending, finding safety, restoring control — you begin practicing skills that translate into the conscious world as well.

This approach overlaps with narrative and cognitive-based therapies, helping bridge the unconscious and conscious realms.

— Dr. Anthony Gallucci, Naropa University