Dream oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Put a single drop on a corner of your pillowcase before sleep.
• Anoint a dream pillow filled with mugwort or lavender.
• Dress a small white or silver candle and let it burn briefly before bed while you ask your question.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the brow before a lunar working or a dream incubation ritual.
• Dress a Moon talisman on a Monday, the day of the Moon.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Anoint a petition asking for a dream answer and place it under the pillow.

A Simple Working

• On a Monday night, write your question on a small square of paper.
• Anoint the paper with a drop of Dream oil and place it under your pillow.
• Put one drop on the corner of your pillowcase.
• Light a white tealight and sit quietly for a few minutes holding the question in mind.
• Snuff the candle and go to sleep.
• Keep a notebook by the bed and write down anything you remember as soon as you wake.

Pairs Well With

• Mugwort, the classic herb of dream pillows and dream work.
• Lavender, for a calm and settled night.
• Moonstone, kept under the pillow for lunar work.
• A dream journal, because recall improves when you write.

What You Receive

Dream oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Dream oil belongs to the family of named formula oils made for night work: sleep, dream recall and receiving messages in dreams. It is used on the pillow, on a sachet by the bed or on a candle lit before sleep. Its ruling is lunar, tied to the Moon, the night and the hidden mind.

Long before anyone wrote books on dream interpretation, people slept in temples hoping a god would speak to them in the night.

Dream oils come from the twentieth-century spiritual-supply tradition, but the practice they serve is far older. Dream divination is described in the Greek Magical Papyri, and dream incubation was practised for centuries at the sanctuaries of Asclepius.