By the time you finally lie down at night, your body feels exhausted, but your insides are wide awake. Thoughts sprint, conversations replay, your chest is tight. You scroll, you pray, you bargain with tomorrow. Nothing really lands. It just keeps moving.   You tell yourself, “I just need to calm down,” but that only adds another voice to the crowd.   Something in you is loud, and it will not be managed.     When Your Insides Won’t Quiet Down   For some, the noise is obvious:

Many people tell me their dreams feel different lately.   More vivid. More persistent. More emotionally charged. They wake with an image or a feeling that stays with them long after the day begins.   Often, the question that follows is simple: Should I be paying attention to this?   Dreams don’t arrive by accident. But we’re often left without instructions on how to understand their language. They speak in images, emotions, and scenes that resist tidy explanation. That can ma