Post by Said1 on Sept 18, 2005 15:45:57 GMT -5
Kind of a crash course in dream interpretation. ;D
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Lesson 4: Common Dream Scenarios
Introduction: The setting of a dream establishes the place in the psyche the Dreammaker is drawing attention to and telling you where your energies are moving or blocked. The objects and symbols in the dream point to how your energies are being focused and the action that involves the characters and objects show you how your energy is being expended. It is important, while you are looking at the scientific delineations of the dream parts, to keep in mind the drama in its entirety.
Common Dream Situations I
The following are dream situations common to humanity.
Precognitive Dreams: It is important to remember that the Dreammaker, the Self, is not limited to linear time and will draw on past, present, and future, often simultaneously, when creating the dream drama. Some people have strikingly realistic precognitive dreams. When my sister was a teenager, she dreamed she saw the mother of her close friend saying, “She’s all right. She’s all right.” The next day her friend was badly hurt in a terrible automobile accident but she did survive. Most of us do not have such explicit dreams. Ours are more cryptic in structure, making the precognitive elements harder to identify. Jungians look at all elements of any dream as parts of us, and you might say that even graphic precognitive dreams on some level still refer to what is transpiring within the dreamer.
Recurring Dreams: Recurring dreams can be blessing dreams or trauma dreams. They usually indicate areas where the psyche is doing some intensive work. Recurring blessing dreams are often a way the psyche affirms and celebrates good things going on in your life. You may get the same dream every time you begin a new project or a new stage of life and it is the Self’s way of giving a “thumbs up” and of telling you, “Bravo! Keep up the good work.” Recurring trauma dreams are a way in which you deal with excess emotion. Veterans with post traumatic stress syndrome and survivors of trauma and abuse will have recurring dreams in which they are working out the wounding and the excessive destructive emotion. Whether you work on a dream or not, the dreaming process itself is one of psychic healing and of regaining balance. However, if you work on the dream, you can accelerate the process. When you have found the meaning in the recurring dream, parts of the dream will begin to change. By working with the symbols and reentering the dream experience, you will find that the dream scenario itself will evolve. Subtle differences may occur in the characters and symbols, or an event that has always ended in the same way will now have a different ending.
Disaster Dreams: Disaster dreams are telling you that something is terribly wrong in the psyche. They will tell you that a job, a relationship, a religion, or a conscious attitude is not good for you and is leading you to psychic crisis. Consciously, you may be aware of feeling sad or stressed or depressed but in your dream you may be terrified or weeping, feeling tremendous pain. The Self will tell you through the dream just how deep your emotional reactions are no matter what you have done to deaden them in conscious life.
A disaster dream may push you to confront an addiction which may be one of the known addictions of drugging, alcoholism, over-eating, over-sexing, over-shopping, or it may be an attitude or belief system. It is whatever you rely on to distance you from some part of yourself or your own life experience. Disaster dreams tell you that you are not taking care of your soul and that the situation is becoming perilous. Remember, whenever the Self poses a challenge in your life, it also puts forth a solution. Women who become trapped in the drive for perfectionism or who take on too much, being the perfect wife, mother, and employee, are often plagued by disaster dreams. These dreans basically are telling you that you are not in a safe place and you need to change that.
Introduction: The setting of a dream establishes the place in the psyche the Dreammaker is drawing attention to and telling you where your energies are moving or blocked. The objects and symbols in the dream point to how your energies are being focused and the action that involves the characters and objects show you how your energy is being expended. It is important, while you are looking at the scientific delineations of the dream parts, to keep in mind the drama in its entirety.
Common Dream Situations I
The following are dream situations common to humanity.
Precognitive Dreams: It is important to remember that the Dreammaker, the Self, is not limited to linear time and will draw on past, present, and future, often simultaneously, when creating the dream drama. Some people have strikingly realistic precognitive dreams. When my sister was a teenager, she dreamed she saw the mother of her close friend saying, “She’s all right. She’s all right.” The next day her friend was badly hurt in a terrible automobile accident but she did survive. Most of us do not have such explicit dreams. Ours are more cryptic in structure, making the precognitive elements harder to identify. Jungians look at all elements of any dream as parts of us, and you might say that even graphic precognitive dreams on some level still refer to what is transpiring within the dreamer.
Recurring Dreams: Recurring dreams can be blessing dreams or trauma dreams. They usually indicate areas where the psyche is doing some intensive work. Recurring blessing dreams are often a way the psyche affirms and celebrates good things going on in your life. You may get the same dream every time you begin a new project or a new stage of life and it is the Self’s way of giving a “thumbs up” and of telling you, “Bravo! Keep up the good work.” Recurring trauma dreams are a way in which you deal with excess emotion. Veterans with post traumatic stress syndrome and survivors of trauma and abuse will have recurring dreams in which they are working out the wounding and the excessive destructive emotion. Whether you work on a dream or not, the dreaming process itself is one of psychic healing and of regaining balance. However, if you work on the dream, you can accelerate the process. When you have found the meaning in the recurring dream, parts of the dream will begin to change. By working with the symbols and reentering the dream experience, you will find that the dream scenario itself will evolve. Subtle differences may occur in the characters and symbols, or an event that has always ended in the same way will now have a different ending.
Disaster Dreams: Disaster dreams are telling you that something is terribly wrong in the psyche. They will tell you that a job, a relationship, a religion, or a conscious attitude is not good for you and is leading you to psychic crisis. Consciously, you may be aware of feeling sad or stressed or depressed but in your dream you may be terrified or weeping, feeling tremendous pain. The Self will tell you through the dream just how deep your emotional reactions are no matter what you have done to deaden them in conscious life.
A disaster dream may push you to confront an addiction which may be one of the known addictions of drugging, alcoholism, over-eating, over-sexing, over-shopping, or it may be an attitude or belief system. It is whatever you rely on to distance you from some part of yourself or your own life experience. Disaster dreams tell you that you are not taking care of your soul and that the situation is becoming perilous. Remember, whenever the Self poses a challenge in your life, it also puts forth a solution. Women who become trapped in the drive for perfectionism or who take on too much, being the perfect wife, mother, and employee, are often plagued by disaster dreams. These dreans basically are telling you that you are not in a safe place and you need to change that.
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