Into the Cracks:
Writing & Dream Prompts
To see what’s unseen. To say what’s unsaid. To embody what’s intangible.
To become what hasn’t yet taken shape. To put words to what’s been left unspoken.
We move into the liminal land of the Dark, the shadow lands, where all is possible and where what’s been hidden resides. To work in these ways unearths potential and brings up all that wants to move and take shape in your being and in the life you’re living.
If you prefer to read the Dreaming Instructions and only listen to the Meditation for sleep and intention setting, you can read the instructions below and start the recording as your ready for bed.
The meditation begins at 5 minutes 57 seconds.
Dreaming Instruction from Nico (read below or listen to the recording in full):
So by now you’ve completed the writing prompts that Molly shared and you’re ready to get into some dream work.
First, if you’re new to dreaming with intention, know that this is a muscle that may take some time to build. Approach this with a beginner’s mind and with curiosity. Be open to what happens. The landscape of Dream is a wildly unpredictable place that takes time to get acquainted with and to learn your personal lexicon of dreaming.
When we work with setting intentions in dream, we want to invite our will to come along with us as we sleep and into the landscape of dream. A good way to do this is to begin building bridges between your waking and dreaming worlds. You can do so in a variety of ways. For example, creating intention around your sleep space, this can be as simple as some dreamy decor or as involved as starting a specific dream altar. You might also like to have a journal dedicated solely to dreaming and work with imagery from your dreams in daily life.
Ways to prepare you mind for dreaming, include staying off screens for at least an hour before bed, prepping your dream journal by writing down your dream intention and placing it by your bedside, and then engaging with a practice of remembering your day in reverse when you first lay down. Remembering your day in reverse primes your brain to access both its ability to engage recollection and to get into a state of active imagination.
When you’re done remembering your day, you can then begin the following meditation as you drift into sleep. In this upcoming meditation you’ll notice that the dream intention will be repeated several times. When working with setting dream intentions, you can silently state this intention three times with all of your will or you can choose to state it repeatedly until you fall asleep.
To recall your dreams in the morning, work in the following manner. When you wake from your night’s dreaming, stay perfectly still, keeping your eyes close and remember your dreaming in entirety. Having kept your dream journal by your bedside, with as little movement as possible, open your journal and write what you remember of your dreams. If you can’t recall your dream, note any sensations or emotions that are there and the first thing that comes to your mind as you wake, even if it’s a song or an ingredient to a recipe you might make later in your day. All of it is significant in those first waking moments.
Don't try to analyze your dream or add any associations or notes otherwise. Just get the dream down in completion and anything else notable in your first waking moments.
After completing your dream recall, go about your morning routine before sitting to write your morning journaling prompt.
Once you have completed the prompt, the invitation is to then read the arc of your night writing, your night's dreaming and the morning prompt writing. Notice where the prompts and the dream may mirror each other. See if you can find a thread of story through the waking prompts and your dream work. Maybe even rewrite the arc of it all as a poem.
Since we'll be dreaming in community, we invite you to share your findings with a friend. Invite them to ask you questions about your dream and writing to see what other layers might reveal themselves. Have fun with it, let it guide you to unfurl into unexpected places. Notice what themes might show themselves in our community sharing.
Ok, here comes the meditation. First, write the following inquiry in your journal as your dream intention:
What possibilities want to make themselves known?
What wants to be born from the cracks?
Get yourself ready for bed. Begin the recording at 5 minutes and 57 seconds to listen to the meditation.
The following writing and dream prompts are in the vein of the upcoming online immersion weekend Into the Cracks , held by Molly Caro May & Nico Wolf, February 17th-19th.
We invite you to join us in this work on the night of the full moon on January 6th.
Writing Prompts from Molly:
Write each of these for 5-8 minutes and no more. Trust the holding of a time frame. That subtle pressure creates a magic. Trust your own brilliance. Allow your pen to flow. Follow tangents.
Night prompt: What cracks within are being illuminated by this winter moon? What wants to be born from them?
Morning prompt: Cracks only exist because a wall/ground/solid exists. How have your walls served you up until this point? Can you write a thank you letter to your walls. Any pattern we have began as wise protection and often containment, until we get a nudge/crack to signal that our nervous system is ready for change. It's helpful to turn toward the pattern and thank it for keeping you alive, for getting you to this point. Then the cracks can deepen as the whole form takes new shape, reminding us of the truth of our fluid and ever-changing story of self.