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"How To" Find Your Personal Dream Solutions - Treat Your Thoughts As Questions that Your Dream Answers
PMID Step 5: Explore your dream for possible solutions or suggestions on changing thoughts, attitudes or behaviors. Look for answers to your day-before-your-dream thoughts.
Below are excerpts from Living Dreams, Living Life, a practical guide to understanding your dreams and how they can change your waking life, Chapter 6.
The simplest application of Step 5 is first to review the day-before-your dream thought(s) (Step 2) that you connect to your dream. Treat the thought(s) as a question(s) that your dream answers. Then explore your responses to all the other PMID steps (including Step 6) for solutions or suggestions. (Note: We placed Step 6 after Step 5 because only the first five steps are necessary for other than relationship type dreams.)
A major outcome of use of the PMID model is the dreamer’s ability to discover problem-solving suggestions as noted in the following:
This method [PMID model] is especially helpful in identifying, clarifying, and resolving relationship problems. During our waking hours, we often feel frustrated that our rational attempts to solve life challenges are unsuccessful. It is then that our dreams often provide innovative and unexpected answers (S. Krippner, personal communication, March 2, 2001).
Obviously, we all have consciously developed insights into how to change unproductive and upsetting thoughts, attitudes and behaviors. But, we’ve also all faced the frustrations of not really knowing what to do, and sometimes being confused about what the problem really is that we’re trying to solve. Should we leave a bad relationship or work situation, or is there some way to fix it? Is there something that we may be unintentionally doing or feeling that we can change to make things better? How do we stop that frustrating and familiar cycle of taking steps to resolve a situation only to see it end up the same or sometimes worse?
A dream bringing insights about the association between earlier experiences and current reactions can be the answer. As we’ve discussed, dreamwork will bring new insights about waking events, thoughts, and emotions. Consequently, after a day of emotional experiences, intense or not-so-intense experiences, that night you may have a dream that suggests solutions to alleviate emotional stress associated with your daytime experiences.
“By using your dreams for creative problem-solving you may also be able to increase your options and encounter new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that will enrich your life and actualize your potentials” (S. Krippner & J. Dillard. Dreamworking, How to Use Your Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving. (1988), p. 248
People have reported problem-solving dreams since earliest recorded history. “Many of the things which present difficulties to us awake, some of these it makes completely clear while we are asleep, and others it helps us explain” (Synesius of Cyrene. On Dreams (excerpts from) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5164/sdreams.html, ¶9.
The dream provides answers to the thought-questions put to it. As a result, we can examine our dreams for answers to important thought-questions.
TO EMPHASIZE THE POWER OF THOUGHTS TO BRING SOLUTIONS IN DREAMS, below is a paragraph from the chapter (3) on PMID 2, "Connect day-before-your-dream-thoughts" to your dream, Living Dreams, Living Life.
When we look to our pre-dream thoughts as precursors of our dream, we have a selection of possible questions that impelled our dream. We can relate this to the board game and TV program, Jeopardy where the contestant is given the answer, and must supply the question. If we choose to accept our pre-dream incubated words (and not search our pre-dream thoughts), it is akin to accepting only one possible question even before seeing the answer.
Below are excerpts from Living Dreams, Living Life, a practical guide to understanding your dreams and how they can change your waking life, Chapter 6.
The simplest application of Step 5 is first to review the day-before-your dream thought(s) (Step 2) that you connect to your dream. Treat the thought(s) as a question(s) that your dream answers. Then explore your responses to all the other PMID steps (including Step 6) for solutions or suggestions. (Note: We placed Step 6 after Step 5 because only the first five steps are necessary for other than relationship type dreams.)
A major outcome of use of the PMID model is the dreamer’s ability to discover problem-solving suggestions as noted in the following:
This method [PMID model] is especially helpful in identifying, clarifying, and resolving relationship problems. During our waking hours, we often feel frustrated that our rational attempts to solve life challenges are unsuccessful. It is then that our dreams often provide innovative and unexpected answers (S. Krippner, personal communication, March 2, 2001).
Obviously, we all have consciously developed insights into how to change unproductive and upsetting thoughts, attitudes and behaviors. But, we’ve also all faced the frustrations of not really knowing what to do, and sometimes being confused about what the problem really is that we’re trying to solve. Should we leave a bad relationship or work situation, or is there some way to fix it? Is there something that we may be unintentionally doing or feeling that we can change to make things better? How do we stop that frustrating and familiar cycle of taking steps to resolve a situation only to see it end up the same or sometimes worse?
A dream bringing insights about the association between earlier experiences and current reactions can be the answer. As we’ve discussed, dreamwork will bring new insights about waking events, thoughts, and emotions. Consequently, after a day of emotional experiences, intense or not-so-intense experiences, that night you may have a dream that suggests solutions to alleviate emotional stress associated with your daytime experiences.
“By using your dreams for creative problem-solving you may also be able to increase your options and encounter new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that will enrich your life and actualize your potentials” (S. Krippner & J. Dillard. Dreamworking, How to Use Your Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving. (1988), p. 248
People have reported problem-solving dreams since earliest recorded history. “Many of the things which present difficulties to us awake, some of these it makes completely clear while we are asleep, and others it helps us explain” (Synesius of Cyrene. On Dreams (excerpts from) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5164/sdreams.html, ¶9.
The dream provides answers to the thought-questions put to it. As a result, we can examine our dreams for answers to important thought-questions.
TO EMPHASIZE THE POWER OF THOUGHTS TO BRING SOLUTIONS IN DREAMS, below is a paragraph from the chapter (3) on PMID 2, "Connect day-before-your-dream-thoughts" to your dream, Living Dreams, Living Life.
When we look to our pre-dream thoughts as precursors of our dream, we have a selection of possible questions that impelled our dream. We can relate this to the board game and TV program, Jeopardy where the contestant is given the answer, and must supply the question. If we choose to accept our pre-dream incubated words (and not search our pre-dream thoughts), it is akin to accepting only one possible question even before seeing the answer.
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