Two weekends ago, I attended an amazing weekend retreat. If you’ve never experienced Group Projective Dreamwork, it might be a challenge to appreciate how astonishing and healing a weekend of it can be. This was the fourth time I’ve attended one of the dream retreat weekends that Billie Ortiz organizes. Jeremy Taylor offers his mentorship, and the dreams, as always, inform each other and help everyone who works them to reach a deeper level of self-understanding.

One of the side effects of getting deeply involved in dreamwork is that synchronicities begin to become more noticeable in one’s waking life. On Sunday, the final dreams we worked on triggered an amazing recitation of synchronicities that the dreamers in the room could point to as connections with the dream material. It ended with Jeremy mentioning the book Patterns that Connect, which explores archetypal patterns in art forms throughout non-technological societies around the world. He specifically mentioned crosshatching as a decorative motif. When I got home, before I told my family about my weekend, we sat down to eat and my older daughter began methodically making crosshatch patterns in the top of her slice of squash pie.

If you’™re interested in some visual synchronicities, check out the blog “3191 a year of mornings”.

The number of connections between dreams that arise in a weekend, and the number of connections that can be made between two images, raises the questions, “Would there be that many connections between any small set of dreams? Does the human mind seek connections so automatically that we can find them in almost any pair of photographs?”

I’m beginning to suspect that the answer to both questions is yes, and that as a species, we’ve only begun to understand the depth and breadth of interconnectedness in our world.