Dreams can offer powerful insights, but only when we look beyond vague, or traditional interpretations and superstitions. Instead of seeing dreams as fixed symbols or generalized and limited archetypes we can treat them as personal metaphors that bring clarity to our waking life.
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Dream images—whether they’re of people, places, or symbols—don’t have to follow fixed meanings. Avoid interpreting based on superstition or hearsay and consider, instead, what each dream element is like for you. You can do by adding some structure to your investigation.
Asking yourself or a client, “What does your dream mean to you?” is usually not fruitful and often elicits the dreamer’s last heard or learned theoretical interpretation based on a dream “expert.” This will usually set both the dreamer and the interviewer back by focusing on external, prefabricated, pre-interview formulations. By using the structure and procedure of the Dream Interview, the dreamer can discover surprising descriptions and feelings that usually shed new and light upon the dream.
Ask Questions to Bridge Dream and Reality
The interpretation, the eureka moment happens after the DESCRIPTION PHASE when we reflect back to the dreamer a precise RECAPITULATION that is then followed by BRIDGE questions that incorporate the dreamer’s exact words.
“What in my life does this (recapitulation) remind me of?”
“How does this feeling of (recapitulation) relate to my current experiences?
By asking specific, personalized questions, we uncover deeper meanings that are relevant to us. now.
Reflection Instead of Interpretation
Rather than imposing outside interpretations, treat dreams as mirrors to your inner world. This reflection reveals personal insights and helps bring clarity to your waking thoughts and emotions.
Embrace the Liberating Wonder of Discovery!
Letting go of fixed ideas allows you to use dreams as a pathway to self-discovery, where answers emerge naturally, and you can then let go of childhood conclusions, beliefs, and misunderstandings. Where you can learn how and why being able to change and enlarge your POV can be freeing and enabling, in short Exhillerating!