Dream Interpretation – The Profound Method

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At its best, dream interpretation is the art of paying deep attention to the symbols produced by the dreaming mind in such a way that you allow those symbols to profoundly affect and change you.

In this sense, the interpretation of dreams is not only an active process. It’s not just something we “do” to a dream. Rather, it is also a passive process. It is something we allow the dream symbol or dream image to do to us.

How to practice dream interpretation

1. Begin by keeping a dream journal. If you have trouble remembering your dreams, set a clear intention when you lie in bed at night to remember your dreams. Put your dream journal and pen next to your bed. As you close your eyes and get nice and comfortable on your pillow, tell yourself over and over again, “I will remember my dreams. In the morning when I wake up, I will remember my dreams in full detail.” This is a form of autosuggestion.

2. When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, press the snooze button and lie down on the bed for a few moments. Ask yourself, “What was going on?” And remember the details of your dream. As you remember these details, write them down in your dream journal. Don’t leave anything out. Do not write something cryptic thinking that you will understand your brief notes later. You won’t. Describe your dream to yourself as fully and in detail as you can. Include all the sensory details you can remember. What were you seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting? What were you experiencing emotionally?

3. Follow your morning routine: get up, get dressed, have breakfast. Take a look again at the description of your dream. You are now ready to begin the essential work of dream interpretation.

4. Circle, underline, or highlight each item in your dream description that is significant to you. For example, I wrote the following dream description:

“I dreamed that I was living in a fundamentalist cult compound where Sonny and Cher were the charismatic leaders. One day in the compound I saw a man come out of a cabin, cradling a baby in his arms. He knelt down and dug a shallow well .hole in dusty ground.He put the baby in the shallow hole -I realized the baby was dead and I was burying it.The man covered the baby with dirt but not much.Then he walked away.I went over to look at the grave. As I leaned closer, I noticed to my surprise that the baby had begun to breathe again. I quickly lifted the girl out of the dirt and cradled her in my arms.”

In this description, the elements “fundamentalist cult compound”, “Sonny and Cher”, “man coming out of a cabin”, “the cabin”, “shallow hole in dusty ground”, “dead baby”, “baby who started to breathe again” seem significant to me.

5. For each item in your dream description that seems significant to you, write a few descriptive lines using the first person voice. In other words, write about that element as if you were that element. State who you are, what you are like, and how you relate to the dreamer (ie you), and finally provide a metaphor for who you are that relates to the dreamer’s (ie your) waking life. For example, “I am the fundamentalist cult complex. I am a place where the dreamer is trapped. I am dry and sterile, and there are strange power dynamics going on around me. I am a place where a violent hierarchy exists rather than a harmonious and happy order. I am a place where people suffer and yet have a passion to belong to me. I want to keep the dreamer in me. I am the dreamer’s graduate school program.”

For the rest of the dream: “I am Sonny and Cher. I am a couple, a woman and a man, who rule the cult compound. I am charming and unapproachable. I am a relic of the old days, and yet somehow still compelling.” way. I want to continue to control the dreamer. I am the traditional heteronormative lifestyle, married monogamous.”

“I am a man coming out of a cabin. I love the cult compound. I am in mourning for this baby. I am loyal to Sonny and Cher. I do not recognize or know that the dreamer exists. I am the dreamer. I adhere to the school program graduate school and the monogamous married lifestyle.

“I am the hut. I am a narrow little house in the cult compound. I am shabby and not strong. I am the place where the man lives. I am the place where the baby died. I am the dreaming mind and its little apartment”.

“I am the dead baby. I am a victim of the ignorance and disorder of the cult compound. I am blue and beginning to attract flies, but I am something man is very reluctant to let go of. I do not know that the dreamer exists. Rejection and I make the dreamer sad. I am the life force, the soul, the libido of the dreamer in a numb state.”

“I am the shallow hole in the dusty ground. I am a grave. I frighten the dreamer. I am raw and primitive, inadequate by formal standards, and yet I am ready to receive. I am open. I bring the baby back to life. it’s buried in me somehow. I am the earth. I am the dreamer’s womb and sexuality.”

“I am the resurrected baby. I breathe in the earth. I draw power and life from the earth. I make the dreamer happy and give her something to worry about. I am the life force, the soul, the libido of the dreamer in a living state. “

6. Now retell your dream narrative, except this time use the waking-life metaphors that conclude each of your first-person descriptions of significant dream elements. For example:

“I am living my life in graduate school (the cult complex) where the traditional ideal of monogamous marriage (Sonny and Cher) dominates my consciousness. One day I see that my attachment to the graduate school program and the ideal of marriage (the man) leaves. my mind and my apartment, cradling my numb soul in his arms. My attachment to the graduate school program and the ideal of marriage buries my numb soul in my womb and my sexuality (the hole in the My attachment to the graduate school program and the ideal marriage (the man) drifts away.Left in my womb and sexuality, my dead soul (the dead baby) begins to breathe and comes back to life.I go to pick up to the baby (my quickened soul) and take care of it again. for health.”

7. This account should give you a very comprehensive interpretation of your dream and a rich understanding of the dynamics of the situation to which the dream applies.

8. Repeat this process continuously. Keep filling your dream journal with records of your dreams and keep interpreting what appears in the way just described. The more you do this, the better understanding you will have of exactly what is going on inside your psyche. This procedure can bring you much more clarity and insight than you would otherwise experience.

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