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Dreaming - universally experienced nighttime activity
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- Why are you interested in your dreams?
- Emotional Growth
- What interests you most about your dreams?
- They respond to waking life thoughts
- Do you remember your dreams?
- Most of the Time
- How experienced are you with interpreting dreams? (1 = Not at all, 5 = Very Experienced)
- 5
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Compare Dreaming and Waking Life Reactions in Relationship Experiences
The systems approach to interpreting dreams [SAID] is a new dreamwork concept. With a systems approach to interpreting dreams [SAID], instead of having the family or group together as would typically happen in a counseling session, the individual gathers and studies (either alone or with a counselor) dreams about major relationships in his or her life, p… Continue
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 9:00pm —
Dream Solutions and Suggestions
Like any worthwhile venture, finding solutions to dreams takes dedicated practice, along with rational reasoning and listening for intuitive insights.
A major outcome assessment in family counseling is problem solving (S. Benish . “Assessing Family Interventions,” In Family Counseling for all Counselors, 2003). A major outcome of use of the PMID model is the dreamer’s ability to discover pro… Continue
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 8:30pm —
The Dreamers Emotions in Dreams are Often Intrinsically Honest, though often exaggerated
Emotions powered by thoughts are fundamental features of waking life. Emotions powered by waking thoughts are also fundamental features of dreams. A major difference is that dreams guided by emotions paint things on a more fluid canvas and “make connections more widely, more broadly than waking t… Continue
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 8:00pm —
Dream Phrases and Dreamers' Personal Definitions
Dreams often pull from the past to give guidance in the present. With the PMID model, the dreamer uses his or her knowledge of personal experiences to find meaning to whole ph… Continue
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 7:30pm —
The Dreamer's Day-Before-the Dream Thoughts Can bring Answering Dreams
Dream researchers have long recognized that thoughts passing through our waking minds are tremendous initiators of dreams. In the PMID [Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams] process, we treat thoughts as questions that the dream responds to or answers. The dreamer is able to identify the question(s) t… Continue
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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The other way to ask for dreams is through “spontaneous” dreaming. Spontaneous dreams often come in response to the dreamer’s day-before-the dream events and thoughts. There the dreamer waits until after the dream to explore which events and which thoughts prompted the dream.
I use both ways to invite dreams. But I look first for whether the dream is a spontaneous dream. “When we look to our pre-dream thoughts as precursors of our dream, we have a selection of possible questions that impelled our dream . . . . 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” (Living Dreams, Living Life, 2007, p. 29).