The Secrets of Sleep

Find out how to fall asleep, stay asleep and get the best quality sleep, as well as insights into the metaphysics of sleep. Where you go, what you do there and how to use your dreams as diagnostics. In Chinese medicine this is an ancient art, dreams can be your organs sending you messages about your health and things that need attention in your life.

Wishing someone ‘sweet dreams’ as they head off to bed is nice, but it won’t happen if they take anger, stress, sadness, fear and imbalances to bed with them. Chinese medicine has been researching dreams for over 2000 years and has made the connection between organ, and yin and yang imbalances, and types of dreams. Dreams are a diagnostic tool. You can use your dreams to improve your health by paying attention to what sort of dreams you have because it’s your body talking to you. Ideally you want pleasant dreams, or deep dreamless sleep as that means you have a healthy flow of chi, and that your spirit is off taking care of metaphysical business. Stagnant chi and blood causes nightmares. The dreams when you wake up in shock, can indicate a kidney deficiency pattern. Worry dreams are affiliated with your spleen. The ‘sleep dreams’, the ones when you wake up but feel like you are still stuck in your dream and can’t get away from it, are often connected to the liver. TCM gets into specifics too, sex dreams can indicate an imbalance in the kidney energy. Flying is associated with the lungs.