Post by halibutholysoap on Feb 14, 2015 17:58:08 GMT -5
C'mon, you do, even if you don't recall it.
Can you remember a dream you've had? Actually, can you separate your dreams from reality?
Do you have recurring nightmares, or something unpleasant that causes you to repress them?
About not dreaming.
Nightmares.
1. Play Weird Video Games. Sources: 1 2 3 4
2. 'In cases of severe trauma, I reccomend a skilled therapist move you through recall.' Don't assume you have to hurry. You can suggest to your dreams that yr unprepared and not ready to receive and process. You have to feel safe to dream if you've repressed them. Defusing frightening dreams is generally healthier than stuffing them. Pushing down such material can actually serve to make it more dense, giving it more power. By writing the dream down, talking with a therapist or friend, praciticing waking imagination to shift the events in the dream, the dream can lose its power and healing can begin. -Ione
3. Read Catch-22. A character, everytime he is not flying missions and waiting to go home, screams all night in his sleep. "There's nothing wrong with nightmares," Hungry Joe answered, "everybody has nightmares." -Joseph Heller
4. In the dreamer were in the Senoi Community of Dreamers, her family may try to give her the following tools: Recognize yr dreaming. Call upon a dream helper of some sort to combat the adversary. Turn around to face the adversary--and become more powerful. Transform the adversary into something harmless, like a hat. Get a gift from the adversary.
5. Paint or draw or scribble or color a mandala keeping in mind the feeling of the nightmare. Get it out on paper or canvas or in song, scream, let it out into your conscious attention. Carl Jung founded art therapy for this very reason. You can find a book called The Red Book which is full of his own art therapy, tons of drawings he did for this very purpose. “Everything odious and disgusting is your own particular Hell. How can it be otherwise? Every other Hell was a least worth seeing or full of fun. But that is never Hell. Your Hell is made up of all things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot.”-The Red Book
Recurrent Dreams
'We work through dream themes much as a painter can work through a phase in art work. For example, "Father Dreams" may continue to pop up until we come to terms with that relationship. An entire story will frequently repeat in our dreams until we have moved through the stuck place in our psyches. Many of the recurring dreams I hear have fairly uncomfortable or unpleasant content.
Either telling the dream aloud or writing the dream down and completing the dream in the most harmonious way possible can mark the beginning of a successful way of moving through. This technique can be surprisingly effective with pesky nightmares or other troubling moments in dreams.' -Ione
If you have trouble imagining alternatives, try to imagine stories or events from yours or your friends lives and incorporate those.
'Remember, the psyche is listening and the psyche is you. If you can imagine good or powerful actions on your part, you also have the potential for creating them in the waking state. Your dreams can change in response to changes in your thinking ways and your being ways; your life can change in response to dream changes. Breakthrough can occur in either direction.' - Ione
The Importance of Dreams by Carl Jung
'Man uses the spoken or written word to express the meaning of what he wants to convey. His language is full of symbols, but he also often employs signs or images that are not strictly descriptive. Some are mere abbreviations or strings of initials, such as UN, UNICEF, or UNESCO; others are familiar trade marks, the names of patent medicines, badges or insignia. Although these are meaningless in themselves, they have acquired a recognizable meaning through common useage or deliberate intent. Such things are not symbols. They are signs, and they do no more than denote the objects to which they are attached.
What we call a symbol is a term, a name or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possess specific connotations in addition to its conventional and obvious meaning. It implies something vague, unknown or hidden from us. Many Cretan monuments, for instance, are marked with the design of the double adze. This is an object that we know, but we do not know its symbolic implications. For another example, take the case of the Indian who, after a visit to England, told his friends at home that the English worship animals, because he had foudn eagles, lions, and oxen in old churches. He was not aware that these animals are symbols of the Evangelists and are derived from the vision of Ezekiel, and that this in turn has an analogy to the Egyptian sun god Horus and his four sons.
Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. It has wider "unconscious" aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained. Nor can one hope to define or explain it. As the mind explores the symbol it is led to idea that lie beyond the grasp of reason. Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend. This is one reason why all religions and even sciences employ symbolic language or images. But this conscious use of symbols is only one aspect of a psychological fact of great importance: Man also produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams.' - Man and His Symbols, ed. Carl G. Jung, Ch 1
Sources
Jung, C. G., and Marie-Luise Von Franz. Man and His Symbols. Garden City, NY: Random House, 1968.
Ione, Carole, and Carole Ione. Listening in Dreams: A Compendium of Sound Dreams, Meditations and Rituals for Deep Dreamers ; Plus, This Is a Dream!: A Handbook for Deep Dreamers. New York: IUniverse, 2005.
Can you remember a dream you've had? Actually, can you separate your dreams from reality?
Do you have recurring nightmares, or something unpleasant that causes you to repress them?
About not dreaming.
Nightmares.
1. Play Weird Video Games. Sources: 1 2 3 4
2. 'In cases of severe trauma, I reccomend a skilled therapist move you through recall.' Don't assume you have to hurry. You can suggest to your dreams that yr unprepared and not ready to receive and process. You have to feel safe to dream if you've repressed them. Defusing frightening dreams is generally healthier than stuffing them. Pushing down such material can actually serve to make it more dense, giving it more power. By writing the dream down, talking with a therapist or friend, praciticing waking imagination to shift the events in the dream, the dream can lose its power and healing can begin. -Ione
3. Read Catch-22. A character, everytime he is not flying missions and waiting to go home, screams all night in his sleep. "There's nothing wrong with nightmares," Hungry Joe answered, "everybody has nightmares." -Joseph Heller
4. In the dreamer were in the Senoi Community of Dreamers, her family may try to give her the following tools: Recognize yr dreaming. Call upon a dream helper of some sort to combat the adversary. Turn around to face the adversary--and become more powerful. Transform the adversary into something harmless, like a hat. Get a gift from the adversary.
5. Paint or draw or scribble or color a mandala keeping in mind the feeling of the nightmare. Get it out on paper or canvas or in song, scream, let it out into your conscious attention. Carl Jung founded art therapy for this very reason. You can find a book called The Red Book which is full of his own art therapy, tons of drawings he did for this very purpose. “Everything odious and disgusting is your own particular Hell. How can it be otherwise? Every other Hell was a least worth seeing or full of fun. But that is never Hell. Your Hell is made up of all things that you always ejected from your sanctuary with a curse and a kick of the foot.”-The Red Book
Recurrent Dreams
'We work through dream themes much as a painter can work through a phase in art work. For example, "Father Dreams" may continue to pop up until we come to terms with that relationship. An entire story will frequently repeat in our dreams until we have moved through the stuck place in our psyches. Many of the recurring dreams I hear have fairly uncomfortable or unpleasant content.
Either telling the dream aloud or writing the dream down and completing the dream in the most harmonious way possible can mark the beginning of a successful way of moving through. This technique can be surprisingly effective with pesky nightmares or other troubling moments in dreams.' -Ione
If you have trouble imagining alternatives, try to imagine stories or events from yours or your friends lives and incorporate those.
'Remember, the psyche is listening and the psyche is you. If you can imagine good or powerful actions on your part, you also have the potential for creating them in the waking state. Your dreams can change in response to changes in your thinking ways and your being ways; your life can change in response to dream changes. Breakthrough can occur in either direction.' - Ione
The Importance of Dreams by Carl Jung
'Man uses the spoken or written word to express the meaning of what he wants to convey. His language is full of symbols, but he also often employs signs or images that are not strictly descriptive. Some are mere abbreviations or strings of initials, such as UN, UNICEF, or UNESCO; others are familiar trade marks, the names of patent medicines, badges or insignia. Although these are meaningless in themselves, they have acquired a recognizable meaning through common useage or deliberate intent. Such things are not symbols. They are signs, and they do no more than denote the objects to which they are attached.
What we call a symbol is a term, a name or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possess specific connotations in addition to its conventional and obvious meaning. It implies something vague, unknown or hidden from us. Many Cretan monuments, for instance, are marked with the design of the double adze. This is an object that we know, but we do not know its symbolic implications. For another example, take the case of the Indian who, after a visit to England, told his friends at home that the English worship animals, because he had foudn eagles, lions, and oxen in old churches. He was not aware that these animals are symbols of the Evangelists and are derived from the vision of Ezekiel, and that this in turn has an analogy to the Egyptian sun god Horus and his four sons.
Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning. It has wider "unconscious" aspect that is never precisely defined or fully explained. Nor can one hope to define or explain it. As the mind explores the symbol it is led to idea that lie beyond the grasp of reason. Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend. This is one reason why all religions and even sciences employ symbolic language or images. But this conscious use of symbols is only one aspect of a psychological fact of great importance: Man also produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams.' - Man and His Symbols, ed. Carl G. Jung, Ch 1
Sources
Jung, C. G., and Marie-Luise Von Franz. Man and His Symbols. Garden City, NY: Random House, 1968.
Ione, Carole, and Carole Ione. Listening in Dreams: A Compendium of Sound Dreams, Meditations and Rituals for Deep Dreamers ; Plus, This Is a Dream!: A Handbook for Deep Dreamers. New York: IUniverse, 2005.