Hi, I’m Nicoline, dream expert and sleep enthusiast. I’m here to help you understand your dreams and wake up with new insights.
Nicoline is a dream expert and sleep activist based in the Netherlands. She’s on a mission to show everyone that sleep is an active state of productive thinking and brainstorming. Nicoline helps entrepreneurs harness that untapped resource to gain new ideas and focus. And sometimes she helps people figure out what their weird dreams mean, too.
Hi, my name is Nicoline Douwes Isema, lifelong dreamer.
Literally, I love sleep and made dreams my business.
I have been speaking about dreams and the sleeping brain on international stages, radio, tv. For the past 15 years I have conducted workshops, in-company trainings, and worked with countless creatives, therapists, coaches. I wrote a book on how to interpret your own dreams through the Interview Method, where we look at the personal associations and ideas that a dream inspires. In short, I teach people to understand their own dreams, and to help others understand theirs.
Also, I am the person who reads all the dream research I can get my hands on, thinks ‘how do people not know about this?’ And then tells everyone.
Here’s why:
The brain in REM sleep is hardwired to freely associate in unexpected ways. While this may make dreams seem crazy and illogical, it’s also the most uninterrupted super-brainstorm you’re capable of.
I say: Let’s tap into that resource. And as a side effect, feel rested all day.
In the past twenty years, I have been focusing on 1:1 coaching, lectures, media performances, and workshops. But most of all, I want to help you make use of your dreaming brain in your everyday life.
I help my clients to:
- explore dreams for insight
- bring unconscious intelligence to light
- connect feeling and intuition to rational thinking
- get smarter by sleeping in
- wake up with new inspiration
Ask me
🔸how sleeping in makes you smarter
🔸how to wake up with new ideas
🔸how to mine insights from dreams
In a time where resting almost becomes an act of defiance, where ‘pulling an all-nighter’ is glorified, I am on a mission to re-value sleep.
As a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and chair of their Social Networking Committee, I adhere to their Dreamwork Ethics Statement.
In this 40 minute video I discuss the IASD Ethics Statement with psychologist and podcaster Amina Mara. We dive into what it means for us in our work, give examples, and distill takeaways for you to use at home.
Coach, not a therapist
Bilingual 🇳🇱 🇺🇸
Living by the beach in The Netherlands, working online.