Author: Denise

(Sunday, August 31, 2025)

Yesterday I rode my e-bike with Cullan and the grandkids. We followed the trail to Minnehaha Falls and ate lunch at Sea Salt. We biked to Fort Snelling and then crossed the Ford Bridge to a beautiful trail along the woods and the Mississippi River that I had never ridden on before. We biked for almost 40 miles. Today Cullan and I rode again, this time around the lakes and west to downtown Hopkins, a twenty mile journey. My brain health needs serious cardiovascular exercise. I am trying to ride at least one hour every day (my neurologists tell me to exercise for at least 30 minutes per day). I hope I can still ride a bit in the winter. I love to smile at the other bikers.

(Friday, August 29, 2025)

I have a short, happy dream about painting a room. I feel no pressure. I feel intense joy about the project. A man, maybe Cullan, is in the room with me.

Day notes:

After I woke up, Cullan and I had a long conversation about upgrades to make to our Rustic Lodge house. Cullan said I did a beautiful job painting the inside of the house. He especially loves the dining room. I mentioned that I worked for nearly a full year painting the windows, ceilings, doors, trim and walls. When I look at it all now, I think: “Wow, how the heck did I get so much done?”

I hope a dream about successful painting might also be about Rosalux Gallery. At the end of the year they have an exhibit that anyone can apply for. I’ll send a photo of my ceramic wall sculpture.

(Thursday, August 21, 2025)

More and more frequently I have dream “flashes” one or two days after I have written down a dream. I have never seen this mentioned at the IASD or in dream books I have read. Maybe my new Jungian therapist will have a clue. Perhaps it is related to the change in my functioning mind. Or it is an opening of the veil/unconscious at this winter time of life. I suppose it doesn’t matter to have a definition, an understanding, but these quick visions make me curious. They last less than a second. The flashes fill my entire brain with detailed imagery and give my body a strong sensation.

I just had a fantasy that these quick visions are healing. Who knows. They are either healing or symptoms of decline. I have been doing lots of Edgar Cayce research into his readings on dementia. The A.R.E. provides acupuncture. I am going to my acupuncture doctor today. A list of the particular acupoints that are being researched for dementia benefits are very similar to the acupoints I receive. I am going to show the research list to Dr. Yu.

My tarot card of the day is the ten of wands. That makes me think of acupuncture. Hard work, yes, is one meaning of this card, but the wands provide electrical energy, like acupoints. Years ago, Cayce suggested electrotherapy for dementia (“wet cell battery”).

Thursday afternoon:

Acupuncture had strong electrical energy today in my left temporal lobe and my hands (Dr. Yu added new needles to my hands based on the data I showed him). I just looked up where dreams are created and stored in the brain. The hippocampus and temporal lobes are two of several locations. My dementia is affected by those two lobes, especially the left temporal lobe. Maybe that has something to do with my flashes?