Dreaming with Polar Bears

A guide to co-dreaming with animals for personal and planetary evolution

• Presents lucid dream encounters with living polar bears and teachings from polar bear spirits

• Explores ways to consciously engage with dreams, co-dream with animals through shared awareness, and form human-animal dream relationships

• Reveals the role of human-polar bear dreaming in the Earth’s planetary evolution

Dreams speak to us on deep levels. Through dreaming we open a gateway to our inner world. Through lucid dreaming we open to conscious interaction with the surroundings, happenings, and living beings within the dreamscape.

Over many years, animal communicator Dawn Baumann Brunke dreamed of polar bears. One night, a lucid dream triggered the realization that not only was she dreaming of a living polar bear but also that the polar bear was dreaming of her. Through shared dream encounters, Brunke became adept at connecting with the bear both while asleep and awake. Together, they explored nonphysical locales where lucid dreamers meet to join in consciousness and co-dream together.

Recounting the dreams she had with polar bears as well as with a council of spirit bears, Brunke presents techniques she learned to enter shared dreamscapes and form meaningful dream relationships with other species. Brunke also examines how our assumptions about polar bears, or any animal, can teach us about ourselves. As we awaken to the wisdom of our dreams, we begin to heal ourselves and our Earth.

Sharing ways to recall dreams and engage lucid dream awareness, Brunke shows how dreamwork can help us forge deeper connections with the natural world and move more consciously in planetary evolution with all beings. Guided by the polar bears in her dreams, the sacred guardians of North Pole evolutionary energy, Brunke reveals how we can each dream ourselves awake and, with animal companions and guides, help dream a new world into being.

Acknowledgments

The Invitation

Part 1
A Personal History of Dreaming Bears

1 The Dog in the Basement
2 The Bear in the Closet
3 Face to Face
4 The Power That Hunts Us
5 Dancing with the Polar Bear

Part 2
The Meeting Place

6 Arctic Dreamers
7 The Polar Bear Council
8 Entering the Dream
9 What We Know and What We Don’t Know
10 How to Catch a Seal
11 Bar and Den
12 Becoming Polar Bear
13 The Human–Polar Bear Alliance
14 Bridge of Dreams
15 Arctic Is the Bear

Part 3
Coming Home

16 Integrated Dreaming
17 Dreaming with Animals
18 Dreaming Ourselves Awake

Appendix I Tips for Dreaming

Appendix II Tips for Co-Dreaming

Appendix III Tips for Bringing Dreaming Awareness Home

Notes

Bibliography