Shows
Sinsomnia84 - The Hermit / The Sun; Led by the LightSammy and Kristen begin the new year with the second to last Tarot episode on The Hermit and The Sun. The hosts have brought notes, dreams, and experiences with the possible meanings and images of these two cards. They reflect on The Hermit being the ultimate Type 9 card, and The Sun containing a childlike wonder that's needed in consciousness. Resources;The Way of the Tarot - Alejandro JodoroskyThe Mythic Tarot - Juliet-Sharman BurkeThe Tarot - Paul Foster CasePictorial Key to the Tarot...
2026-01-0551 min
Sinsomnia83 - Strength / The Moon; Tending to InstinctOn this week's Tarot episode, Kristen gets especially excited with Sammy when talking about these two cards - Strength and The Moon. The hosts discuss the theme of 'instincts' imbedded in the cards and how their own experiences, notes, and dreams have informed their understanding of the energies these cards activate. Resources;The Way of the Tarot - Alejandro JodoroskyThe Mythic Tarot - Juliet-Sharman BurkeThe Tarot - Paul Foster CasePictorial Key to the Tarot - Arthur Edward Waite
2025-12-151h 00
Sinsomnia82 - The Chariot / The Star; A Hunger for GuidanceThe next two cards in this continuous Tarot series are The Chariot and The Star. Sammy and Kristen are on a mission to give some life to the Major Arcana by relating to the images, digging up notes, and discussing dreams that may have these energies stored within them. Resources;The Way of the Tarot - Alejandro JodoroskyThe Mythic Tarot - Juliet-Sharman BurkeThe Tarot - Paul Foster CasePictorial Key to the Tarot - Arthur Edward Waite
2025-12-011h 07
Sinsomnia81 - The Lovers / The Tower; Falling in TimeSammy and Kristen continue their series on the Major Arcana to talk about The Lovers and The Tower. Tarot cards 6 and 16 start to paint an interesting picture about choices, values, letting go, and not being able to carry on as before...Resources;Tarot books by; Paul Foster Case, Alejandro Jodorosky, and Juliet Sharman-Burke
2025-11-171h 09
Sinsomnia80 - The Hierophant / The Devil: An ExorcismSammy and Kristen return after a long break to continue their series on the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck. This episode they look at the similarities and differences of The Hierophant and The Devil cards, using personal notes, experiences, and dreams to understand what these archetypal images might be revealing to humans.
2025-11-031h 06
Sinsomnia79 - The Emperor / Temperance; On Your SideKristen and Sammy discuss the Tarot cards of The Emperor and Temperance, continuing their transformative and exploratory journey through the major arcana. This week's episode is focused around boundaries, unconscious written laws, having a guardian angel, and centering the swinging pendulum. The girls bring in their first impressions, external resources, personal experiences, and dreams that helped them hold a complex and deep view of these two cards.
2025-08-2755 min
Sinsomnia78 - The Empress / Death; Embodied CyclesDiscussing the next pair of cards in the Tarot turned into a strange weather pattern of emotions for the two hosts Sammy and Kristen. The Empress and Death takes them on a tour through abundant, sunny, embodied life and the cold, harsh winter of death. This episode speaks for itself; the task of risking the safety of performing to really live the dirty, grounded, imperfect life before we die. Resources;- Alejandro Jodorosky's 'The Way of the Tarot'- Paul Foster Case's 'The Tarot'- Juliet Sharman-Burkes' 'The...
2025-08-1155 min
What It's Like To Be You#60: Alex (SO/SP 6w7 693): Changing Inherited Reality Perspectives, Having “Mental Real Estate”, and the Exhaustion of Being One’s Own Vetting SystemAlex (SO/SP 6w7 693) joins us for a deep dive into the often-misunderstood inner terrain of the Social Six — where loyalty is a vigilant scan for danger, and the mind’s ceaseless activity is less about worry than about building a livable world. From the outset, Alex speaks to the dissonance of being typed as a Six, resisting the caricatures and one-dimensional projections that cling to the type. We explore the deep patterns of fear and mental over-responsibility that began in childhood: a sense of being a small, visible target in a world ruled by unseen authority. Alex...
2025-08-051h 26
What It's Like To Be You#59: Aurel (SO/SP 6w7 693) – Understanding/Expressing Identity, Reliable Orientation with Memory Loss, and Sounding the AlarmAurel (SO/SP 6w7 693) experienced a major stroke in early adulthood—an event that unraveled his sense of self and fractured his memory. What happens when your personal history goes missing? In this conversation, Aurel reflects on the slow, painful reconstruction of identity and how trauma rewrites not just the past, but the present narrative. We talk about radical empathy, activism, and the emotional labor of confronting systemic injustice while piecing together who you are. This is a deep dive into Type 6 themes—humility, doubt, the search for expertise, and the existential anxiety that rides alongside all of it. Aure...
2025-07-291h 29
Sinsomnia77 - The High Priestess / The Hanged Man; Giving InSammy and Kristen discuss the number 2 and 12 Tarot cards, The High Priestess and The Hanged Man. They discuss each card separately and how they relate together as a pair. The receptive nature of these cards are helpful in understanding what this podcast tries to cultivate in the realm of dreams and self-reflection of our personality types.
2025-07-281h 13
What It's Like To Be You#58: Mar (SP/SX 7w6 794) – Impulsive Vision, Finality in Fiction, and the Existential Weight of Losing Sea Monkeys
Mar (SP/SX 7w6 794) joins us for a luminous, chaotic dive into the inner world of an SP Seven — where optimism burns like a flare, vision outpaces feasibility, and connection is often a puzzle missing key pieces. Mar touches on her social blindness — the kind that makes small talk feel like calculus and leads to well-meaning intensity that others don't always know how to receive. We explore her writing, which orbits themes of fate, finality, and surrealism — what she calls “pocket knife stories” for their compact emotional heft. This conversation also opens space for harder truths: her relationship with alcohol as...
2025-07-221h 56
What It's Like To Be You#57: Cassandra Carol (SP/SO 9w8 972): Navigating Trauma as a Triple-Positive Type, the High Energy of 9w8, and Putting the Pieces of Self Back Together
Cassandra Carol (SP/SO 9w8 972) joins us for a raw and resonant conversation about what it means to carry deep emotional weight while moving gently through the world. Cass, a high-energy and incredibly polite Nine, opens up about surviving childhood abuse, navigating a turbulent past marriage, and understanding the complex aspects of her unique Enneagram type with precision. We explore the paradox of a Nine who feels “too much” in a world that asks her to be less — the push-pull of wanting to merge without disappearing, of protecting others without burning out. Cass’s Enneagram journey (including strong 7 and 2 fixes) b...
2025-07-151h 45
Sinsomnia76 - The Magician / Justice; The Owl of Law and LoreKristen and Sammy continue on their Tarot journey with cards of The Magician and Justice. They mainly explore the dichotomies of the law of nature and the law of man; where are they separate? Where do they intertwine? What parts of our personality get confused or misled with this process and how do the cards call us back to it? Sammy and Kristen provide dreams, experiences, and lore to play with these topics and further understand how personality can strengthen through the oracles.References;Alan Moore Interview; 'Shwep' Podcast...
2025-07-141h 21
What It's Like To Be You#56: Ruth (SX/SO 9w1 973): Seductive Merging with the Divine, the Rude Awakening of Self-Care, and Reclaiming Sensation Through the Body
Ruth (SX/SO 9w1 973) joins us for a luminous and radical exploration of the Sexual 9's longing for union — with God, with others, and, ultimately, with herself. From an early age, Ruth’s life was shaped by profound mystical experiences: claiming Jesus at three, and at nine, encountering a vision of him entering her body — not metaphorically, but viscerally, as a wave of physical love. These moments left an imprint, becoming the compass by which she navigated the world — always reaching for a love that could hold her entire being. We explore how this early spiritual intensity tethered her to exter...
2025-07-081h 41
What It's Like To Be You#55 Anna Palumbo (SO/SP 9w8 937) - Music as Mirror, Emotional Fragmentation, and the Integrative Pulse of the Body Center
Anna Palumbo (SO/SP 9w8 937) returns for a second conversation—this time reflecting on the shifts she's experienced since our last recording. We begin with a live performance of her original song Wings for the Heart, a piece that emerged in the wake of personal rupture and now stands as both witness and balm. What follows is a layered exploration of emotional fragmentation, the disorienting effects of internal and external turbulence, and the slow, deliberate work of reweaving oneself from the inside out. Anna speaks candidly about a transformative road trip with her family that cracked something open—making spac...
2025-07-011h 25
Sinsomnia75 - The Fool / The World; Falling and Being Caught by the MysteryOver the past two weeks, Sammy and Kristen have gathered thoughts, impressions, dreams, and stories on the two major arcana cards of the tarot; The Fool and The World. The strange mystery of endings and beginnings started to work on the hosts in a way that surprised them, puzzled them, and made them laugh. Both of these cards have a magic that feels outside of our personality types, which is quite rewarding even if it's accessed for only a brief moment in time. Using the imagery of the famous Rider/Waite deck, Sammy and Kristen start to dream about...
2025-06-301h 12
Sinsomnia74 - THE TAROT: The Beginning of an Oracular JourneyKristen and Sammy begin a discussion on the Tarot, a famous and mysterious oracle that has struck a chord within many individuals and cultures across the world. Oracles have been referenced many times throughout this podcast, but the hosts set an intention to make these cards the focus of the next several months. Today's episode is a general history of the cards, reflections on personal relationships and experiences, and shared curiosity around the magic present within the images. The hosts plan on letting the cards 'work' on their psyches, allowing a new process of channeling the ancient images of...
2025-06-161h 01
What It's Like To Be You#54 Bjarne (SO/SP 8w9 3w2 6w7): Will Over Emotion, the Fight Against Corruption, and the Longing to Galvanize Others
Bjarne is an SO/SP 8w9 with 3w2 and 6w7 fixes, though in this episode, he questions whether he might be a core Six. What emerges regardless is a portrait of a powerful, self-directed psyche shaped by an early awareness of exploitation, corruption, the failure of collective systems to protect the dignity of life. From political dreams as a child to his drive to awaken others to their own strength, Bjarne speaks about what it means to live with a sense of self-respect and moral propulsion. We talk about betrayal and its lasting scar: how one relational rupture cost...
2025-06-101h 20
What It's Like To Be You#53 Moses Williams (SO/SP 5w6 513) – Relationship Post-Mortem: A Young 5 Reflects, Grieves, and Chooses to Stay Open
Moses Williams (SO/SP 5w6 513) returns for a third and unexpected installment. After the emotional closing of our last conversation, the relationship he spoke about fell apart, and Moses recorded this solo reflection as a final statement. It’s part post-mortem, part self-reckoning, and it is beautifully 5: heady, searching, at times heartbreakingly tender. He names where things broke down, what it showed him about his patterns, and how he’s choosing to move forward. What begins as a Five’s attempt to diagnose and understand becomes something more vulnerable: a young person figuring out how to keep their heart open a...
2025-06-031h 28
What It's Like To Be YouMoses Williams (SO/SP 5w6 513) – Social 5-ness on the Spectrum, Sexual Blindness, and the Dangerous Hope for Mutual Desire
Moses Williams (SO/SP 5w6 513) is back for round two, and we dive straight into what he calls “the mortifying stuff.” We explore the dissonance of being autistic and socially wired — craving connection but feeling like a fish trying to fly. Moses speaks candidly about navigating sexual arousal alongside the fear of being seen as creepy or delusional, and what it’s like to experience intense desire as someone who’s sexual blind. He names his instinct to hide, control, and strategize, and what happens when that scaffolding starts to crack. We talk about being a triple competency type (513), the impuls...
2025-05-271h 34
What It's Like To Be YouMoses WIlliams (SO/SP 5w6 513) – The Horror of Naivety, Fascination with Taboo, and the Obsessive Drive to Self-Educate
Moses Williams is an 18-year-old Social/Self-Pres 5w6 who is also on the autism spectrum. Moses describes growing up feeling that adults were hiding the truth, that essential information was missing, and that everyone else somehow knew how to be human in a way he didn’t. We talk about his often obsessive fascination with taboo topics—pornography, sexual deviance, violence—not to provoke, but to answer the horrifying question: “Am I stupid for not knowing this already?” He recounts a personal collapse that left him with three options: become a sanitized version of himself, disappear entirely, or dismantle and reform...
2025-05-201h 32
What It's Like To Be You#50: Julie (SP/SO 1w2 126): The Double-Edge Sword of Competence, Overextending for a Cause, and Trusting the Felt-Sense Yes
Julie (SP/SO 1w2 126) says being an Enneagram One is like trying to control the lightning bolt you’re riding. We talk about how her pursuit of competence — in painting, music, and even dog training — brought early success but gradually drained the joy from each pursuit. She shares what it’s like to live in a body wired for precision and pressure, and how that rigidity eventually led to serious health issues after she threw herself into an activist cause. We explore how she navigates moral complexity not through rules, but through a somatic “yes,” and how her 2-fix allows her t...
2025-05-131h 19
Sinsomnia73 - Persona; Plastic vs NatureContinuing on the theories from the previous episodes of the Transcendent Function and the Collective, Sammy and Kristen share what happened when they combined the two in their own psychic and dream experiences. This episode gets at the heart of the ‘I AM’, religious connections, being a part of yourself, being a part of the world, and the masks we all wear that inform us of what kind of God we are encountering daily.PLUGS:LAST CALL for your spot on John’s retreat (MAY 23-25, 2025) at https://www.johnlu...
2025-05-121h 11
What It's Like To Be You#49: Kim (SO/SP 8w7 863) – Gatekeeping my Reality, Blaming Myself for Naivety, and Protecting My Severed Soul
Kim (SO/SP 8w7 863) joins us for an intimate and unguarded exploration of the inner world of Eight — where sovereignty is survival, connection is a gamble, and straight talk is an act of love. From the first moments, Kim’s presence is unmistakable: a force of nature, all-in from the outset, inviting others to meet her at full throttle. We explore the emotional paradox at the heart of the Social Eight — the innocent hope that others will meet her with the same raw honesty she offers, the crushing self-blame that follows when that trust proves misplaced, and the instinct to amp...
2025-05-061h 27
Sinsomnia72 - The Collective in DreamsSammy and Kristen have a casual discussion about what the ‘collective’ and symbols from the collective could mean in dreams. They start to ponder what it means to be an individual within the collective, being impacted by events in the outer world and making choices in life. This discussion brings up personal dreams to reflect on and start the hosts on their journey in understanding how personality and the collective intermingle.PLUGS:Reserve your spot for John’s retreat (MAY 23-25, 2025) at https://www.johnluckovich.com/experiencing-essence ...
2025-05-021h 00
What It's Like To Be You#48: Alice (SO/SP 9w1 973) – Opting In to Existence, Disturbing the World by Existing, and Aching to Crawl Back into a Dead Womb
Alice (SO/SP 9w1 973) joins us for a profound and poetic exploration of the inner world of Nine — where the background environment can overshadow the self, and the longing isn’t for pleasure, but for the peace of never having been born. We dive into the quiet ache for pre-conscious coziness, the hesitance to disturb reality with one’s presence, and the existential ambivalence at the heart of Nine structure: Do I really want to exist? Alice reflects on the invisible toll of absorbing the world’s energies, the disorienting effects of nightlife work, and the shattering aftermath of real con...
2025-04-291h 52
What It's Like To Be You#47: Sarah Fair (SP/SO 6w7 693) – Disarming Others, Reigning in Unchecked Reactivity, and Overcoming Victim Mentality
Sarah’s Type 6 mind moves fast—so fast it can create instant connection and obscure deeper intimacy. In this episode, she unpacks the whirlwind: the pull between independence and support, the trap of victimhood, and how unchecked reactivity nearly derailed a past relationship. With raw honesty, she explores self-sabotage, emotional spirals, and the slow work of learning self-trust. This is a conversation about growing beyond fear into real, grounded connection. LINKS
Sarah's Music https://open.spotify.com/artist/6VAheMN9FSGheExTVAlBXD?si=rbz8XlbPQqaQx3mEr9De0A The Enneagram School https://theenneagramschool.com/ In...
2025-04-151h 20
Sinsomnia71 - Experiencing Essence with John LuckovichKristen is joined by Enneagram teacher and author John Luckovich to talk about his upcoming retreat in New York City called ‘Experiencing Essence’. The two discuss what essence is, how to cultivate it, and the many ways we are already relating (or lacking relation) to this substance within us. Essence is the seed of consciousness at the core of our being. When we make efforts to be present, it is Essence that either shows up—or remains obscured. While everyone's Essence is unique, it expresses itself through nine fundamental qualities that shape the distinc...
2025-04-151h 13
Sinsomnia70 - Personality and the Transcendent FunctionKristen and Sammy discuss Carl Jung’s piece on ‘The Transcendent Function’. They read a few excerpts and describe how they see personality type impacting this method, but also how accessing this space allows the ‘machine’ of type to be more regulated by its compensatory counterpart; the unconscious. Letting this theory be a part of the conversation with Enneagram type can give more flavor or color to our individual struggles, rather than just working with type as a description of qualities and behaviors.
2025-04-0353 min
What It's Like To Be You#46: Kalla Mort (SO/SP 6w7 639) – Escaping High Control Religion, Coming Out as Queer, and Learning to Orient Myself
Kalla Mort shares her jaw-dropping story of escaping the high control religion of her youth (read: cult) and coming out as queer. This is an incredibly rich exploration of Attachment in the Mental Center, and how Type 6 navigates revolutions of core beliefs. Enjoy.
LINKS
Learn at The Enneagram School https://theenneagramschool.com/
Intro Course https://www.theenneagramschool.com/intro-enneagram-course
Get Typed https://www.enneagrammer.com/
Sinsomnia Podcast (Dreams) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sinsomnia/id1684154994
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
2025-04-012h 27
Sinsomnia69 - Enneagram, Animals, and the Dream RealmToday, Sammy and Kristen discuss the appearance of animals in dreams and how they could be the messengers of our instinctual natures. The girls mainly focus on the objectivity an animal’s nature can provide to our instincts, rather than getting stuck in the neurosis of the subjective personality’s relationship to instinct. The many facets of self-preservation are discussed, as well as the different centers of intelligence in the Enneagram. Some personal dream examples are used to articulate the potential pivots of our autonomy and choices in life when we receive the message of a dream animal. The conv...
2025-03-261h 07
What It's Like To Be You#45: Sara Pryde (SP/SX 6w7 614) - Curating Delicious Environments, Raging About Rotten Bananas, Being Accidentally Available,& Zig-Zagging as I Talk
Sara Pryde (SP/SX 6w7 614), trauma-informed massage therapist, joins us from Wyoming. We dive into the existential crisis sparked when her partner didn't finish his weekly banana quota—forcing her into making muffins against her will. Plus, we unpack how Sara, as SP/SX armed with all three frustration types (1, 4, 7), meticulously crafts her ideal cozy cocoon, yet accidentally projects being more socially "available" than she ever truly feels. Enjoy.
LINKS
Sara’s Website (Massage Therapy, Astrology, Blog)https://www.sarapryde.com/
Learn at The Enneagram Schoolhttps://theenneagramschool.com/
Intro...
2025-03-251h 32
Sinsomnia68 - Type Ensouled in Dreams: “Beautifully Stupid”To continue the idea of ‘Type Ensouled’, Sammy and Kristen reflect on their own dreams and how they’ve correlated with their personality and life experiences. We use the power of stories and myth to amplify the purpose of our personal enneagram types. To be able to ‘catch the thread’ of our human and soul path became a fun and interesting attempt to play with the creative energies that are present. “Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made...
2025-03-1858 min
Sinsomnia67 - Enneagram Beyond Personality: Type EnsouledToday we focus on the “soul purpose” or “soul perspective” of having an Enneagram type and instinct stacking. We talk about systems like the Akashic records and astrological natal charts and how it mirrors our personal type structure. All aspects of personality like our dominant functions and blindspots are looked at as a sort of contraction and expansion of the human experience. The tension of personality and soul are explored in archetypal and personal ways as we question our purpose, our suffering, and our creative expression as human beings. Resources;Find Valeria...
2025-03-061h 00
Sinsomnia66 - FORECAST: Dreamy WeatherThe three dream girls are back for a new ‘season’, ready to explore the realms of the personality, the unconscious, and other strange things we experience as humans. Kaisa brings in her recent experiences with her life and dreams while on a break from the podcast, and the girls reflect on what they’ve enjoyed about the past ‘seasons’. They begin to dream up new ideas going forward with the pod, including other worlds, spiritual traditions, and forms of creative expression. Each host offers two of their favorite topics to start diving into in the new year, spiraling into many diffe...
2025-02-241h 05
Sinsomnia65 - Head Center DreamsKristen and Sammy discuss the results of their head center dream incubations, asking the question "What am I using to conceal my own personal void?” They discuss the enneagram and instincts as well as Jung’s cognitive functions to understand where their fears are originating and revealing themselves through the symbols of the dreams. Resources; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
2025-02-101h 07
Sinsomnia64 - The Void of the MindAfter a brief pause on recording and releasing episodes, Sammy and Kristen are back in the new year with a refreshing idea on the head center to help them dive back into the theoretical podcast game. Kristen talks about an experience she had that allowed her to have a personal resonance with the head center and the conversation inspires the hosts to discuss similar concepts or realizations on what head types or our own head centers are trying to avoid while simultaneously creating.
2025-02-031h 03
Sinsomnia63 - Head Center Dream SymbolsToday’s discussion is on the possible symbols relating to the head center in dreams. We go through themes like the physical head, swords, medication, air, birds, video games, and more. Each idea is met with references to external resources, personal experiences, dreams, or examples to highlight where these symbols live in the head center. These dream symbols are not to be taken literally or be fully attributed to ‘the head center’; this is a way for us to be thinking creatively about our enneagram type and dreams.
2024-12-231h 07
Sinsomnia62 - Playing with MetaphorTo continue the topic of the head center, we discuss how metaphor can be a way to ‘open’ us up to different narratives or perspectives. When bringing in the aspect of ‘play’ to dreams, symbols can feel more autonomous and alive, giving us a chance to be impacted and moved by them. Kristen and Sammy talk about their own experiences ‘playing’ and being fascinated by metaphor, tying in previous topics from the head center. Kristen also talks about a recent experience with a shift from looking at a dream in a flat way as opposed to a creative and metaphorical...
2024-12-121h 04
Sinsomnia61 - The Holy HeadThis week we discuss Rudolf Otto’s piece ‘The Idea of the Holy’. We use this written work as a way to talk about the limits of the head center, what could exist outside of those limits, and our human experience of glimpsing beyond those limits. We talk about personal examples of spiritual experiences or ego-awakenings to the rigid structure we keep ourselves under. Sometimes we feel fear, sometimes bliss, sometimes a mix of the two when a mental structure of reality falls and some unknown version of ‘truth’ reveals itself. The process can be painful but rewarding.
2024-11-251h 08
Sinsomnia60 - The Head Center; Judgment / Discernment / FateKristen & Sammy are back to tinker with the ideas of the head center. They talk about what constitutes a conscious or unconscious choice and how the ego might be ‘getting in the way’ of its connection to the head center, animal nature, and divinity. They bring in different ‘maps’ such as astrology, tarot, and philosophy to understand the depths of these topics like fate and free will.
Resources;
‘The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages’ by Paul Foster Case
‘Magic, White and Black’ by Franz Hartmann
Astrology Po...
2024-11-141h 04
Sinsomnia59 - Secret Formula to The Head Center; NarrativesKristen & Sammy explore the idea of narratives and inner constructs created by the head center. They question what kinds of needs might fuel certain patterns of narratives and how early in life our constructs of reality even started to build themselves. The other centers are discussed as well, showing how these types of realizations don’t happen in isolation. They bring in their own experiences, dreams, symbols, and ideas to try and understand the unconscious and conscious power of the creative mind when stuck in a narrative trance.
Resources;
‘The Mind of God’...
2024-11-0759 min
Sinsomnia58 - NightmaresIt’s spooky season, so the team decided to talk about nightmares since it correlates synchronistically with the head center. Kristen mainly takes the stage here with her history of nightmares and how it could have been helping her experience repressed fear and regulating her emotional health. They discuss how nightmares could be a direct way to experience all three instinctual centers.
Resources;
‘The Twenty Four Hour Mind’ Article;
https://www.themarginalian.org/index.php/2012/08/13/the-twenty-four-hour-mind-rosalind-cartwright/
James Hillman; ‘Pan and the Nightmare’
James Hillman lecture; https://www.youtub...
2024-10-3049 min
Sinsomnia57 - The Neurotic HeadDuring this episode, we bring in individual dreams to talk about the neuroses of the head center. Our discussion helps us piece together all of the different components that become exposed through this process and paint a fuller picture of the head center’s needs and narratives. Our personal experiences highlight the ways we are relating to reality and the attachments/connections we have with each other. We explore the ideas of superego, the pain/pleasure principle, trust/mistrust, escapism, addiction, and more.
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2024-10-101h 23
Sinsomnia56 - The Head Center & Instinctual FearThe dream girls reorient to the head center and what it could be conjuring up in the dream realm. They discuss the differences between instinctual fear and neuroses, and the ego/personality and the head center. Topics like the higher mind, fear, reality, narratives, and horror are all explored in relation to the head center and how we are orienting to ourselves and life. They bring in a few recent, personal dream examples to highlight how alive these ideas are in the unconscious.
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2024-10-031h 00
Sinsomnia55 - The Heart Center DreamsWe bring in our personal dreams on the heart center to discuss how all of these recent discoveries with our hearts, image, and identity could be impacting us unconsciously. Kristen had a few fragments that they expand on for 20 minutes, and Kaisa’s dream takes center stage by sparking a conversation on the personal versus collective heartbreak of reality and the environment. This conversation takes many turns into sadness, pain, inspiration, and humor. Here is the link for the image referred to at the very end; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TBIhfgJ4Fx-8OyntYIMGfAeMWAvN3I5S/view?usp=dr...
2024-09-271h 19
Sinsomnia54 - The Heart Center; IdentityREMINDER TO SIGN UP FOR THE 8-WEEK COURSE BEFORE SEPT. 15! https://www.theenneagramschool.com/dreams-and-the-enneagram-class
Today, Kristen and Kaisa explore the idea of what ‘identity’ is, how it is seen by the ego, how it’s perceived or talked about in the ‘collective’, what even is the ‘collective’, and how confusing all of this stuff is. They discuss personal examples, where they are currently, and how this material is allowing them to change the way they see themselves and the world. “The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located... We all have identity crises because a...
2024-09-121h 00
Sinsomnia53 - Live Dream Webinar!Kristen and Kaisa enter the public realm for the first time in a live recording of their recent dream webinar. They talked about their upcoming course that is now open for registration, what they’re excited about and how the structure will be, and answered questions from the participants. Hosted by Josh Lavine from the Enneagram School and 'What It's Like To Be You' podcast.
To sign up for the 8-week course that starts on Sept. 15, 2024 - https://www.theenneagramschool.com/dreams-and-the-enneagram-class
Josh's Podcast/Youtube -
https://op...
2024-09-0556 min
Sinsomnia52 - The Process of Creating SoulKristen and Kaisa take over the podcast in this episode to talk about the absolute importance of creating soul, and how you can be a part of a community in that process during their upcoming webinar and workshop! They reflect on their connection with their psyche and working with their dreams, and how they plan to allow that space for others to explore the unique connection to personal psychic material. The process of soul-making is different for each individual and can be cultivated and inspired by many ways of dialoguing with your dreams, which the workshop plans to supply.
2024-08-2955 min
Sinsomnia51 - The Heart Center Dream SymbolsIn this episode, the dream girls discuss possible dream symbols of the heart center. Ideas of blood, flowers, religion, and lions are swirled around the minds of the hosts as they ponder about how these topics pierce the heart. They bring up where these symbols appear in their own dreams and how that makes them feel.
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thedreamynines@gmail.com - send us dreams or questions!
www.inkstoryrebel.com - work with Kristen for guidance on dreams!
2024-08-191h 10
Sinsomnia50 - The Heart Center; Shame & LoveKaisa shares an experience of internalized shame and an active imagination she did to understand where this shame is wanting to be understood. We talk about how deeply rooted this is within individuals and the culture at large. Last week, we talked about the enneagram 4 space, so this week we explored a bit more on the enneagram 2 space of ‘Love’. Loving ourselves and others is a very hard thing to do when we have a lot of complexes standing in the way of that resonance.
Resources:
‘Into the Heart of the Feminine’ by Bud an...
2024-07-2436 min
Sinsomnia49 - The Heart Center; Aesthetics & The Abyss - Part TwoSammy returns in this part two episode as one of her many incarnations; typed specifically for this conversation as sp/so 9w8 964. We continue a discussion about the heart center as an aesthetic realm, diving into the depths of the enneagram type 4 space as the abyss. We bring in religious and spiritual references, and some of our own dreams for reflection.
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2024-07-1640 min
Sinsomnia48 - The Heart Center: Aesthetics & The Abyss - Part OneSammy returns in this episode as one of her many incarnations; typed specifically for this conversation as sp/so 9w8 964. We talk about the aesthetics of the heart center and how that might land in the enneagram type 4 space compared to the other types. We discuss art, understanding emotion, identity, and image. The attempts to view the world and ourselves as a living, symbolic image can be difficult to discuss and describe but we take on the challenge.
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2024-07-0955 min
Sinsomnia47 - The Head and The Heart; Belief & TruthKaisa and Kristen freeform on this episode about how they keep running into head center ‘stuff’ as they read sources that feel like it’s talking about the heart. The symbolic implications of this are interesting to play with in the personal as well as the collective sense. They both bring in personal dreams to illustrate these simultaneous and relational centers. Kristen and Kaisa talk about belief, religion, truth, betrayal, and love.
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2024-07-011h 05
Sinsomnia46 - The Thought of the Heart Center - Part TwoKaisa and Kristen continue talking about the themes, images, and other dissections of James Hillman’s essay, ‘The Thought of the Heart’. Along with general discussion, this episode loosely summarizes the previous readings and investigates possible future discoveries in the heart center and the realm of dreams. Some personal reflections and sporadic concepts make their way into the conversation and direct the flow of the two nines vibing and incising.
Resources;
‘Thought of the Heart’ essay by James Hillman; http://www.compilerpress.ca/Competitiveness/Anno/Anno%20Hillman%20Thoughts.htm
Josh Lavine & J...
2024-06-181h 10
Sinsomnia45 - The Thought of the Heart Center - Part OneKaisa and Kristen talk about James Hillman’s essay ‘The Thought of the Heart’ and how it relates to our connection (or lack of) to the heart center. We have personal as well as societal reflections on this material and what it could mean for individual types and where the heart is operating in our/their type structure. We get quite animated about the hidden gems of the heart center, and are determined to see what we start to uncover in the unconscious on the matter.
Resources;
‘Thought of the Heart’ essay by James Hi...
2024-06-111h 09
Sinsomnia44 - Body Center ClosureWe revisit the body center so that Kaisa can get closure on the process she was absent for at the end of our exploration. She shares a dream that responded to our dream incubation, and we talk about how that highlights her own experience. Our conversation further differentiates the body types in the unconscious and how that impacts our motivations and sense of autonomy and movement. The themes of desire, sexuality, anger, needs, will, power, etc. are all revisited in the episode of Kaisa’s Closure.
2024-06-031h 13
Sinsomnia43 - The Heart CenterSammy and Kristen start diving into the heart center and contemplate what it means in the realm of dreams. We differentiate some language used for the heart center like image, shame versus guilt, and how that stems from object relations. We share a few of our own personal dreams that could be illustrating heart-centered motions between the dream ego and the ego of waking life. We’re excited to expand on all of these topics as the wisdom of our dreams begin to help us through this journey.
Resources;
Josh Lavine & John Lu...
2024-05-1651 min
Sinsomnia42 - Body Center DreamsSammy and Kristen continue the previous conversation by sharing their dreams that they incubated to see how the body center might be operating in their unconscious. They asked their unconscious; ‘What am I asking another to hold?’ and they received answers which they begin to break apart and understand. These dreams can show a way in which listeners can see and listen to the body center within the realm of their own dreams and processes or experiences of life.
Resources;
James Hillman’s ‘Senex and Puer’ lectures
2024-04-3042 min
Sinsomnia41 - Unconscious Holding & The Body CenterSammy and Kristen talk about what object relations might be highlighting about the body center and the unconscious. We break down the previously mentioned concepts of the container, blurred boundaries, anger, unconscious identification, and how all of this could be showing up in each of the body types.
All of the body types/centers are dissociated and confused where their boundaries really are or where they are not. With the idea of ‘holding’, both in the environment and with others, we can learn how to make more space for parts of us that are outc...
2024-04-2351 min
Sinsomnia40 - The Body Center Dream SymbolsKristen and Kaisa discuss possible dream symbols to track for the body center. We talk about abstract concepts such as considering the environment of a dream and the psychological processing of alchemy. More obvious symbols like fire, forges, blood, animals, and actual bodies in the dream are also talked about and explored both objectively and personally.
We talk a lot about our relationships to where the body’s energy may be trapped or unresolved, and what the symbols of dreams could be showing us on how to work with that and help it to act...
2024-04-091h 21
Sinsomnia39 - Bitter MedicineSammy and Kristen take over the podcast conversation today to talk about their personal journeys so far on the body center. We talk about recent dream imagery, personal associations that have transformed, and discoveries we’ve had on the connections to our bodies and what’s all ‘hiding’ in this center.
Because of the free-flowing nature of this conversation; we also talk about families, the instincts, ‘bitter’ medicine, cognitive functions, mortality, strength, and more!
Resources;
‘The Soul’s Code’ by James Hillman
James Hillman ‘The Alchemy of Psychology’ https://l...
2024-04-021h 18
Sinsomnia38 - The Body Center & SexualityWe answer a listener’s question that came along in time for us to talk about the body center and how it relates to the sexual instinct and sexuality. We talk about what it means to feel attraction and desire and how that projection (like we discovered with anger) can help us develop a relationship to our bodies as the container of these experiences, and show us our path to individuation.
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2024-03-2648 min
Sinsomnia37 - The Body Center; Anger as a TeacherKaisa and Kristen recount a very recent story that is relevant to the discussion on anger in the body. We’ve had a lot of internal reactions to the topics we talk about on the podcast, and we were fortunate enough this time to be able to share personal observations on anger as a teacher; the projection, the internal reflections, and the repair. Kaisa also shares a dream that came right after the event, and how it has all helped shift things within her attitudes and connection to life.
Resources;
‘Women Who Run With The Wolve...
2024-03-1845 min
Sinsomnia36 - The Body Center; AngerKristen and Kaisa explore the topic of anger and rage in the body center. We discuss how anger can initially be projected, but the real work is within undergoing an internal process that requires contemplation of the source and direction of energy. Anger can be a creative process and actually regenerate modes of energy stuck within the body. Through uncovering our own relationship to anger in dreams and life, we start to understand how it can be cultivated and used as a tool.
We also look at how anger has appeared in mythology such...
2024-03-111h 07
Sinsomnia35 - The Body Center; The "Container"We talk about what the ‘container’ is and how it relates to the body center. The container is important in understanding emotions and sensations and allowing them to be felt, known, acknowledged, and understood. We talk about what it’s like to set up a container to allow these experiences to be explored, and how that could impact the connection to your body center.
We also discuss topics such as emotion versus sensation, trauma, expressing language, the unconscious body versus the subtle body, etc. Separating the narratives from what is the body and its sensati...
2024-02-2656 min
Sinsomnia34 - The Body Center; Experiences & DreamsKaisa takes the stage in this episode as she describes her recent experiences in developing a relationship to her body center. As she works to transform her external life, we also explore how that’s being reflected in her internal life. The other two hosts chime in with ideas and abilities to relate to how deep and complex the body center can operate daily and within the realm of dreams.
They also discuss the topics for future body center episodes like ‘the container’ and ‘anger’, and how that might show up in life and in dreams.
2024-02-1342 min
Sinsomnia33 - The Centers of Intelligence & Body as a BaseThe hosts begin to discuss where their minds are going when looking at the Enneagram Centers of Intelligence. The team explores how they feel the centers both as a concept and how they’re operating in their lives. They briefly discuss what the centers are and their first impressions of how they operate in the unconscious versus the personality. The conversation mainly starts to dive into the body center, where we’ll begin the journey of the Centers.
Links to the three ‘disturbing’ archetypes living within each of the hosts:
Kristen’s ‘Wormtongue’...
2024-01-3056 min
Sinsomnia32 - The Sexual Instinct in Life, Dreams, & ReflectionsAs we start to wrap up our exploration of the sexual instinct, the hosts share their personal journey over the past couple of months. They go back to the starting point, discovering how each person had a different psychic place where this material impacted them. The conversation unfolds into the nooks and crannies of the middle part as themes of body, matter, spirit, and social complexes take form. By the end, in true sexual instinct fashion, the current mess of the hosts’ progress is expressed as themes of vulnerability, pleasure, and how we treat ourselves.
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2024-01-151h 26
Sinsomnia31 - Sex in Dreams - Part TwoFor part two of sex in dreams, we explore the more spiritual and archetypal connections of the sexual instinct and the act of sex. Kaisa brings in concepts revolving around Pan, Eros, the culture’s projections and current struggles, love and creation, sexual energy transfer, and emotional connections. A lot of the topics discussed evoke personal emotions, dreams, and stories that we can relate to and expand on for our path towards inner work and growth.
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To ge...
2024-01-0853 min
Sinsomnia30 - Anima / Animus & The Sexual Instinct - Part 2The trio is back to revisit the mysterious concept of Anima/Animus. The concept is discussed more abstractly this time, exploring the ‘third’ element’s role and energetic component when working with dreams. We talk about how the Anima/Animus wants to challenge who we think we are and how we think we should operate in the world based on our unconscious, habitual patterns in our instincts and type. Focusing on the more uncomfortable things to bring to consciousness, we allow ourselves to be more fluid and adaptable in order to strengthen and familiarize ourselves with our inner Other. We spe...
2023-12-181h 08
Sinsomnia29 - Sexual Blinds' Dream SymbolsContinuing our previous conversation, Kristen and Kaisa dive into the dream symbols of sexual blinds’ dreams. We pull from examples of themes in many sexual blinds, including Kristen’s own personal reflections. The inner ‘Other’ is talked about as it could ‘clothe’ itself in a distant, unobtainable figure, which sparks a conversation about sexual blinds desiring comfort and validation rather than distinguishing their own unique polarity and taking a risk. The Patriarchy is brought up again, and how this personal and societal concept is embedded in our psyche and therefore influences our sense of sexuality. We also talk about partners, ex...
2023-12-1141 min
Sinsomnia28 - Sexual Types' Dream SymbolsWith our Princess Sammy missing, Kaisa and Kristen discuss the symbols that could appear in sexual types’ dreams. We first discuss some general, archetypal symbols that might be commenting on the sexual instinct.
We thought it was best to separate the symbols in dreams by sexual types and sexual blinds, since the feelings and energies are usually hiding more within the sexual instinct rather than within just the tangible symbols and situations. For sexual types, we talk about repulsive people or objects, liminal spaces, and magical or godly images. This also invites conversations about the...
2023-12-0453 min
Sinsomnia27 - Sex in Dreams - Part 1It’s finally here; we’re talking about sex in dreams and how it relates to the sexual instinct. In this unplanned, spontaneous episode, we discuss anything that comes to mind with sex in dreams and what it could mean. We talk about a few of our own dreams and make interesting distinctions of what’s ‘missing’ based on our instinct stacking.
We ‘let go’ of our usual, informative banter in this one; having more of a free-flowing discussion and making a lot of room for jokes. We’ll try to take it more seriously in Part...
2023-11-261h 17
Sinsomnia26 - Sexual Instinct in Dreams: TriangulationIn this episode we enter through the triangle and discover what 1+1 really is, and why the magic number 3 could be a portal through transcending our usual suffering of jealousy and anger. We break apart the tension of polarities and how to use that tension for accessing a third perspective. Understanding how the ‘third’ element is showing up in an unconscious way, and how to cultivate a more authentic ‘third’ aspect whether alone or in a relationship, can strengthen the connection to a person’s sexual instinct.
Kaisa shares a personal story to illustrate the impact of t...
2023-11-251h 13
Sinsomnia25 - Sexual Instinct Mythology: Dismembering DionysusA second mythological theme we look at in this episode is dismembering and reassembling. This theme is shown through shamanic traditions and the myths of Dionysus, Osiris, Ymir, etc. We discuss why dismembering and reassembling would be important in the sexual instinct, and also how it might show up in an egoic way. We bring in some of our own dreams where this theme shows up.
Along with this mythology, there is also an aspect of ‘eating of the flesh’. Since the veil between this world and the realm of the dead is thin aroun...
2023-11-0259 min
Sinsomnia24 - Sexual Instinct Mythology: HephaestusTo begin our dive into some of the mythology of the sexual instinct, Sammy presents a dream she’s had on this journey so far. It has a strange connection with the story of Hephaestus, so we discuss the similarities and differences, and how it all relates to Sammy’s process and the sexual instinct itself. Sammy’s story mirrors Hephaestus, going all the way back to her birth and the medicine the dream could be giving her now. We talk about how this myth is alive today in the collective, and therefore operating in each of us somewhere indivi...
2023-10-2757 min
Sinsomnia23 - Anima / Animus & The Sexual Instinct - Part 1The large and complex topic of Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus is broken down in relation to the sexual instinct in dreams. Sammy starts out relaying a dream she had that transitions the conversation into how our inner Other shows up in a dream and why. We talk about the relationship to our unconscious material, the passion for longing, devotion, self-expression, our wholeness, and even more of a mix of what these fascinating figures could be representing. There’s no way to explain all of the nuances in a small time frame, but hopefully this can kickstart a bett...
2023-10-261h 06
Sinsomnia22 - Inauthentic Sexuality; Feminine & Masculine EnergiesIn this episode, we discuss our personal relationship to working with feminine & masculine energies. These energies are simplified in this discussion to see just how much they influence daily life. We talk about the sexual blind perspective, and the sexual type perspective. A small conversation is also made around the Anima and Animus, and what it’s like to be possessed by the inner Other.
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2023-10-1253 min
Sinsomnia21 - Inauthentic Sexuality & The PastWe talk about how we’ve personally observed our own inauthentic sexuality and what that might mean in our daily lives. Understanding these experiences within ourselves can help with the first step of allowing our current association with sexuality to crumble and plant the seed for new growth. The discussion goes from dreams about our high school crushes to the social shadows that hide in the sexual instinct during a digital age.
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2023-10-0446 min
Sinsomnia20 - Loss of Self & The NuminousContinuing the conversation of the last episode, Kristen and Kaisa talk about the ‘loss of self’ that happens in a person symbolically. As the topic is explored, they discover how sexual types might long for that feeling outside of themselves, but in doing so it creates a pattern of personality rather than acting as a spontaneous occurrence of the Self.
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2023-09-2727 min
Sinsomnia19 - Sexual Projection & Object RelationsDiving into the sexual instinct, Kristen and Kaisa talk about what sexual projection is and/or looks like. Kaisa gives insights into the symbolic view of her dominant instinct and how that translates into the dream realm. Kristen also breaks down a tentative object relations theory to put the instincts into perspective and what these ‘objects’ are that we’re all projecting onto.
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2023-09-1346 min
Sinsomnia18 - The Social Hero & The Sexual MessThe social instinct has given us plenty of gifts and ‘real heroes’ to work with in our dreams in order to get a fuller picture of ourselves. We talk a bit about the importance of accepting these social roles playing out in the inner world before transitioning into understanding the sexual instinct. All three instincts are happening simultaneously, especially as we see them through the images of our dreams, so having an exploration of self-preservation and social can help us as we tackle the sexual instinct.
The discussion of the sexual instinct begins - and...
2023-09-0656 min
Sinsomnia17 - Reclaiming Social LoveFor this episode, we decided to wrap up our impressions of the social instinct and our journey with it in dreams. Kristen and Kaisa share dreams and experiences that came up for them within the timeframe of exploring this instinct. They both describe how personal this work has been for them, and how they’ve been impacted both externally and internally.
Even though it is unbelievably helpful to experience external social love and belonging, the work of dreams has taught us that it’s even more important to reclaim that feeling and cultivate it within us.
2023-08-3033 min
Sinsomnia16 - Social Blind DreamsOur first guest joins us for this episode; Maggie is a SP/SX 7w6 794. Maggie shares a dream she had that illustrates how social blindness might appear in the unconscious. We discuss the ways in which she views the social instinct, both with neglecting it but also having a different impact based on her family upbringing.
The evidence of her instinctual stacking, core type, and trifix also come into play with the visuals and tones of her dream. These descriptions are specific to her and her experience, but still cover the grief and associations h...
2023-08-161h 04
Sinsomnia15 - Toxic Sammy: Social Middle In Its EntiretyWe explore Sammy’s progression as a SP/SO 9 in this ‘outtakes’ from the social middle episode. Sammy’s dream could be showing just how toxic she’s becoming around the social instinct (joking). Kaisa also learns about the meaning of postcards.
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For more of David Gray’s instinct descriptions, visit- https://www.enneasite.com
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2023-08-0932 min
Sinsomnia14 - SP/SO & SX/SO: Social Middle DreamsSammy and Kaisa both have the social instinct in the middle of their instinct stacking. They both share their dreams that have been conjured up in their psyche during our social journey. These dreams illuminate just how rich and powerful the middle instinct can be, even in a secondary position. Kaisa also explains her new discoveries of the masculine and feminine polarities embedded in the instincts.
Each goes through how their past has affected their relationships socially, both personally and collectively. Breaking down the complexes and understanding their shadows has helped them gain better...
2023-08-021h 06
Sinsomnia13 - SO/SX & SO/SP: Social Dominant DreamsWe had two dreamers allow us to break down what the social instinct looks like in their social-dominant dreams. The dreams illuminate how social vulnerability can create images that may be helping a dreamer understand what they’re giving a lot of attention to through their instincts.
We make general speculations about the two dreams. Because the dreamers weren’t there to give input, the actual interpretations could be very different from the conversations we provided.
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2023-07-2634 min
Sinsomnia12 - Disembodied Soul Sammy opens up about what has impacted her with the Social instinct. Her experience invites a conversation about how vulnerable the Social instinct really is. Relating and connecting to others can be scary and disregulating, so we talk about our internal processes that we continue to face while exploring this instinct.
We discuss a few, recent dreams that come to mind about this process to illuminate our relationship with Social. Topics such as 5 fix versus the Social instinct, being a withdrawn type, and reality versus illusion start to branch out from the depths of...
2023-07-181h 21
Sinsomnia11 - It's Not You, It's MeThe Social instinct has become quite a rough topic to confront for all of us, so in this episode Kristen relays a series of dreams she’s had over this journey so far that might be helpful when approaching shadow work. Everyone will have a different way to process information, but the ‘key’ is to allow things to impact you in a way they haven’t before; where true opportunities to change will await you. Be gentle on yourself in this process - it’s not easy for anybody.
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2023-07-1454 min
Sinsomnia10 - Social: Archetype & MythThe Social Instinct is explored through the realm of mythology and archetypes in this episode. The idea of the ‘hero’ is discussed, and where that might be playing out in our dreams; both waking and asleep. This conversation becomes a way to illuminate what Social dominance might be trying to achieve, but also how that plays out for the Social instinct in different stackings.
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2023-07-031h 02
Sinsomnia9 - Social: Dream SymbolsThis week, we enter the realm of the Socal instinct in dreams. Topics such as shadow work, personas, complexes, social status and roles, etc. are discussed and broken down as to how they might appear in dreams. We talk about the importance and depth of the Social instinct, and how we can work with our dreams to feel better connected to others and tune in to our inherent sense of belonging.
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2023-06-281h 02
Sinsomnia8 - Bringing It All Back HomeIn this episode, we reflect on our personal progress of the Self-Preservation instinct. Sammy talks about her constant struggle with being self-preservation dominant, and the new insights these dreams have brought her in the process. Kaisa describes her revolutionary experience in surrendering to her self-preservation blindspot, and how her dreams helped her develop a different relationship to it. Kristen reveals that these exercises have helped illuminate just how dynamic self-preservation is, even with the instinct being secondary for her.
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2023-06-131h 12
Sinsomnia7 - Self-Preservation Blind DreamsThis is Part Two of our exploration on the Self-Preservation instinct in the blindspot. For this episode, Kaisa reads the dream she had when bringing up the idea of Self-Preservation to her unconscious. She gives her personal associations and experiences around the dream, and we break down what its meaning could be.
This exploration brings up the attitude and grief around our blindspot, and just how unconscious our associations with it can be. We talk about Self-Preservation in a bit more abstract and personal way for Kaisa, to understand how she could develop a s...
2023-06-061h 07
Sinsomnia6 - Self-Preservation Blind Myths & ThemesThis is Part One of our exploration on the Self-Preservation instinct in the blindspot. We discuss the mythology and stories that could be hinting towards having self-preservation as a blindspot, and what that might mean in the unconscious.
We also have Kaisa (SX/SO) describe the themes that appear in her dreams to illustrate how the unconscious might be portraying Self-Preservation when it’s blind to the ego.
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2023-06-0634 min
Sinsomnia5 - SP/SO & SO/SP: Self-Preservation in dreamsWe did our homework and asked the unconscious to reveal our relationships with the self-preservation instinct in our dreams. For this episode, we look at Sammy’s sp/so dream, first. We observe what self-preservation symbols appear and how she’s relying on her dominant instinct for a lot of her daily actions and decisions.
The next dream comes from Kristen as we observe how an so/sp dream would address the self-preservation instinct when it’s secondary. The relationship is just as rich and revealing as to how much neglect or judgment is coming...
2023-05-2957 min
Sinsomnia3 - Self-Preservation: Dream SymbolsIn this episode, we break down different symbols that could appear in dreams that would highlight the realm of Self-Preservation. We discuss the main ideas, the forms they could take on, and how that might help in interpreting a dream. The subject matter that could appear in dreams would vary from objects to more archetypal or organic symbols.
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2023-05-161h 03
Sinsomnia4 - Self-Preservation: Archetype & MythContinuing the conversation of Self-Preservation, we discuss the archetypal energy embedded in the instinct - what it’s meant to do in our lives and how we associate with it. We also explore some common themes in mythology and classic tales where the instinct could be present. To help with the feeling of this instinct in dreams, we break down two examples of self-preservation dominant people, one SP/SO and one SP/SX.
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2023-05-1653 min
Sinsomnia2 - How To: DreamStep One - listen to this podcast! Today we talk about our personal methods in remembering and writing out our dreams. Sometimes just being intrigued by the unconscious is enough to spark a dream, but there are other ways in pulling out the symbolic imagery in our sleep.
We also break down a dream from Kaisa to show how just a fragment can be full of rich wisdom and insights. Listening to others’ dreams and the conversation around breaking them down can help in tackling one's own dreams. We go through Kaisa’s personal associations, the feelings invo...
2023-04-301h 07
Sinsomnia1 - Sintroduction: A Curious Conversation About Dreams & The EnneagramCome and join three Enneagram type 9s as they explore the depths of the unconscious. They’ll make you feel quite cozy as they discuss matters of personality, shadow, instincts, and the monsters hiding under our beds.
The Enneagram is a personality system that is seen as the machine to our daily actions. Dreams can be a way to uncover the hidden motivations and desires behind a person’s unique type and experience in life. In this episode, we talk a little bit about our personal experience diving into dreamwork, and how we’ve noticed (just on the sur...
2023-04-231h 19