![]() Then sleep, and on waking take time to recall any dream. ![]() It helps if one imagines that during sleep you are going to meet each other to consider what is happening between you. Like any undertaking, the involvement, and therefore the results, are much more pronounced if there is an issue of reasonable importance behind the experiment. One sets out to dream about each other through mutual agreement. ![]() They can be used by two people equally as well as a group-by a parent and child, wife and husband, businessman and employee. Whatever may be underlying the results of Reed’s expen- ments, it is noticeably helpful to use the basic principles he is working with. She chose to end the affair and further her career. She went on to realise that it was the affair which was underlying her indecision. ![]() though, which led the woman to admit she was having an affair with a married man. Her group subsequently said they were confused because they had not dreamt about school. In another experiment, a woman presented the problem of indecision about what college to transfer to and what to study. It aided the woman who was seeking help to admit she had a phobia of water and to begin thinking about learning to swim. In one instance the group experienced many dream images of water. The reported dreams often formed a more detailed view of the person’s situation. He went on to suggest the group should attempt this purposely and the resulting dreams shared to see if they helped the person with the problem. It started because Reed noticed that in the dream groups he was running, when one of the group aired a problem, other members would subsequently dream about that person’s problem. Herbert Reed, editor of the dream magazine Sundance, and resident in Virginia Beach, Va., initiated group dreaming experiments. In doing so a healing release is reached, but also greater self understanding and the opportunity to think over or reconsider what is discovered. Such exposure of the usually private areas of one s feelings and fears often presents new information to the dreamer, and also allows ventilation of what may never have been consciously expressed before. Whether it is a family sharing their dreams, or two fnends, an environment can be created in which the most profound feelings, painful and wonderful, can be allowed. See dream processing amplification gestalt dream work.ĭream as a meeting place Any two people, or group of people who share their dreams, particularly if they explore the associated feelings and thoughts connected with the dream images, achieve social intimacy quickly. When successful this leads to personal insights into behaviour and creativity. This can be a very dramatic and emotional experience because we begin consciously to touch the immense realms of experience usually hidden behind the image. This is like amplification, except the client gives all the information. It is important, even if the house were one existing externally, not to attempt a description of the external house, but to stay with the house as it was in the dream. If one dreamt of a house, in gestalt one might stan by saying I am a house’ and then go on to describe oneself just as one is as the particular house in the dream. The person exploring the dream acts out or verbalises each role or aspect of the dream. In the approach of Fritz Perls (gestalt therapy) and Moreno (psychodrama), dream analysis is almost entirely experiential. Because amplification also put to the client the information and experience of the therapist, again the dreamwork can be largely verbal and intellectual, rather than experiential. He applied amplification (see entry), helped the client explore their associations, used active imagination (see entry) and stuck to the structure of the dream. Out of this has occurred the idea of someone else ‘analysing or telling us about our dream.Ĭarl Jung used a different approach. Although ideally the Freudian analyst helps the client discover their own experience of their dream, it can occur that the analyst puts to the client readymade views of the dream. If one succeeds in touching the feelings and memories usually connected with a dream image, this becomes apparent because of the depth of insight and experience which arises. Because dreams use condensation-a mass of different ideas or experiences all represented by one dream image or event- Freud stated that the manifest content was meagre’ compared with the ‘richness and variety’ of latent content. In this way he helped the person move from the surface images (manifest content) of the dream to the underlying emotions, fantasies and wishes (latent content), often connected with early childhood. ![]() Freud encouraged clients to relax on a couch and allow free associations to arise in connection with aspects of their dream. Sigmund Freud was the founder of modern therapeutic analysis of dreams. ![]()
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