Ever wonder about your dreams? If you are like most of us, your thoughts
about dreaming have run the gamut from dismissive to intrigued.
There are many ways of interpreting dreams
from the religious and mystic (think Joseph in the Bible read more) to the societal
(the dream catchers of the Native Americans are a wonderful example of this).more
One useful approach is to assume that
dreams are about 'unfinished business' - anything from a tidbit of information
that lodged in your mind and needs sorting out, to focusing and perhaps finding
a solution to an on going problem.
Sometimes they might give us the
opportunity to re-meet demons from our past and finally put them to rest! By focusing on the content of our dreams we
have the possibility to learn more about ourselves and perhaps heal old wounds!
DANCE WITH IT! EXPERIENTIAL APPS
An opportunity to
experiment with some fun
ideas...
THE MAGIC OF WORKING WITH
DREAMS . . .
Don't judge - jot!
The easiest method of
working with dreams is to keep some writing equipment near your bed and jot
down what ever you wake up with.
Now ask yourself the following:
What is the 'top- note'? This is the obvious story of the dream.
What is the contextual
feel of your dream? Color? Movement? Sound?
Now for the fun part! Since you wrote the 'script' - it's your
dream, right - you actually created each
character, landmark and scene in the dream.
Our unconscious minds talk
to us in images and metaphors and it can actually be fun to puzzle them out!
An easy way to do
this is to 'own' everything in your dream.
Let's say you dream
about an elephant walking down Broadway and singing to passersby…
To 'own' this dream you
would:
*Be the elephant and
describe yourself as this singing elephant.
"I
am a big grey elephant and I feel ____ and I like_____ and today I'm ____.
You get the idea!
*Now be Broadway. Yes, you can be in inanimate objects in your
dreams - there's a reason you put them there.
*So
you might say: "I'm Broadway and
I'm really famous and very busy…"
Now let the elephant and
Broadway talk to each other.
Have some fun with
this!
What do each of the pieces of your dream tell you about this moment in your life?
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