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The Dreamers Emotions in Dreams are Often Intrinsically Honest, though often exaggerated
Compare your dreaming emotions about a particular issue or relationship with your before-your-dream emotions about that same issue or relationship. How does this help you understand your dreams?
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 thoughts” (E. Hartmann. Dreams and Nightmares, The Origin and Meaning of Dreams, 1998, p. 11.)
For this reason, exploring dreaming emotions is a valuable technique for understanding our deepest waking-life emotions. Once again, our dreaming lives are not as self-censored by what is right or the various “shoulds” that permeate our everyday lives. We are free to -- in fact, cannot help but -- more fully experience and express our full range of emotions about issues in our lives.
Not only do we more fully experience our current emotions in our dreams, our minds also draw from similar experiences and emotions from our past for clarification and answers regarding how to deal with our current issues. (Excerpt from Living Dreams, Living Life, 2007, p. 42.
[PMID Step 4: Compare your dreaming emotions with your waking life emotions about the main issue and/or relationship in this dream. What differences, if any, do you find between your dreaming emotions and waking life emotions? Also, periodically review your dreaming emotions about the main issue or relationship.]
For demonstrations of dreamers' comparisons of dreaming emotions with waking life emotions about an issue or relationship, click on FORUM in the top menu bar. Then scroll down to and click on "I just had this dream about . . . ". Then select any of the categories there for dreams and the dreamers' PMID interpretations that Eveland Fairfield has posted there.
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 thoughts” (E. Hartmann. Dreams and Nightmares, The Origin and Meaning of Dreams, 1998, p. 11.)
For this reason, exploring dreaming emotions is a valuable technique for understanding our deepest waking-life emotions. Once again, our dreaming lives are not as self-censored by what is right or the various “shoulds” that permeate our everyday lives. We are free to -- in fact, cannot help but -- more fully experience and express our full range of emotions about issues in our lives.
Not only do we more fully experience our current emotions in our dreams, our minds also draw from similar experiences and emotions from our past for clarification and answers regarding how to deal with our current issues. (Excerpt from Living Dreams, Living Life, 2007, p. 42.
[PMID Step 4: Compare your dreaming emotions with your waking life emotions about the main issue and/or relationship in this dream. What differences, if any, do you find between your dreaming emotions and waking life emotions? Also, periodically review your dreaming emotions about the main issue or relationship.]
For demonstrations of dreamers' comparisons of dreaming emotions with waking life emotions about an issue or relationship, click on FORUM in the top menu bar. Then scroll down to and click on "I just had this dream about . . . ". Then select any of the categories there for dreams and the dreamers' PMID interpretations that Eveland Fairfield has posted there.
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