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Love something
(Love is an emotion), we are drawn to it and therefore do it.
· If we Fear something
(Fear is an emotion), we run from it.
Therefore,
emotion becomes a powerful tool for our Dreamwright. It is not enough to simply
note that we were angry during the night, but we must also be aware of the more
subtle emotions surrounding known emotions. For example, let’s say you had a
dream that you were trying to get into a room, but no matter how hard you
tried, you could not get the doorknob to turn. In your dream were you angry
because you couldn’t move the doorknob, or were you frustrated because you knew
that it could be done, but you weren’t able to? It would do us good to begin to
learn more about our emotions and the subtleties that surround them. Then we
can gain a fuller understanding of which emotions we’re truly dealing with and
see where we’re substituting one emotion for another.
If you find
that there’s an emotion you experience often, it might be a good idea to see if
you’re generalizing several other emotions into this one. If there is another
emotion that you simply refuse to accept in your waking life, you might find
that your Dreamwright will often write that emotion into your Dreamplay. This tendency
of the Dreamwright can be frustrating in waking life, but it’s nothing to
despair about. It simply means that your Dreamwright is trying to bring balance
into your life. Look hard at the emotion, and you may discover that the emotion
you thought you were experiencing isn’t the emotion you felt at all.
Mission #11
1. What is the overall
mood of the dream? Is it happy? Sad? Satirical? Angry? Vengeful?
2. Is this an emotion you’re used to having
during the day?
3. Is it possible that
the emotion in the dream is really a generalization of one or more additional
emotions?
4. In what ways is the
emotion of your dream really motion? (Remember that even a lack of motion is
motion.)
5. How many emotions
would you say you experienced in the Dreamplay?
6. How strong were the
emotions?
7. How do you feel
about those emotions in waking life?
Substitution:
Substitution is
a mental means whereby an object, a situation, or even a person can be
transformed or substituted for something or someone else in a movie or a play.
An example of a very subtle substitution would be the security blanket. The
security blanket represents the substitution of some feeling of comfort or
security, substituted in the physical blanket. Another form of substitution
familiar to many of us is the substitution of hunger for another emotion such as
boredom. We’re bored and so we eat. That gives us something to do.
Your
Dreamwright loves substitution. When we look at our dreams, we will discover
that the Dreamwright will often times substitute one prop for another, one
emotion for another, and one character for another. That is what dream
dictionaries attempt to explain rather simply. For example, they try to tell us
that a serpent in our dream really represents our sexual impulses. They attempt
to make the process of substitution simple. All we have to do is look up the
object in a dream dictionary and we have our answer. The problem with this is
that each one of us is going to make different substitutions while using the
same imagery. To some dreamers, a serpent showing up could quickly turn even the
most benevolent dream into a terrifying nightmare. For others, the serpent
could represent something deified. A dreamer may have a fantasy of owning a red
sports car, so when a red sports car shows up it could easily represent the
dreamer’s dream car and not necessarily what the dream dictionary might call
“sexual prowess.”
We must be
aware of substitution. It will affect everything in the dream from the cast of
characters, to the props, right down to the colors and the choice of the
setting
(Love is an emotion), we are drawn to it and therefore do it.
· If we Fear something
(Fear is an emotion), we run from it.
Therefore,
emotion becomes a powerful tool for our Dreamwright. It is not enough to simply
note that we were angry during the night, but we must also be aware of the more
subtle emotions surrounding known emotions. For example, let’s say you had a
dream that you were trying to get into a room, but no matter how hard you
tried, you could not get the doorknob to turn. In your dream were you angry
because you couldn’t move the doorknob, or were you frustrated because you knew
that it could be done, but you weren’t able to? It would do us good to begin to
learn more about our emotions and the subtleties that surround them. Then we
can gain a fuller understanding of which emotions we’re truly dealing with and
see where we’re substituting one emotion for another.
If you find
that there’s an emotion you experience often, it might be a good idea to see if
you’re generalizing several other emotions into this one. If there is another
emotion that you simply refuse to accept in your waking life, you might find
that your Dreamwright will often write that emotion into your Dreamplay. This tendency
of the Dreamwright can be frustrating in waking life, but it’s nothing to
despair about. It simply means that your Dreamwright is trying to bring balance
into your life. Look hard at the emotion, and you may discover that the emotion
you thought you were experiencing isn’t the emotion you felt at all.
Mission #11
1. What is the overall
mood of the dream? Is it happy? Sad? Satirical? Angry? Vengeful?
2. Is this an emotion you’re used to having
during the day?
3. Is it possible that
the emotion in the dream is really a generalization of one or more additional
emotions?
4. In what ways is the
emotion of your dream really motion? (Remember that even a lack of motion is
motion.)
5. How many emotions
would you say you experienced in the Dreamplay?
6. How strong were the
emotions?
7. How do you feel
about those emotions in waking life?
Substitution:
Substitution is
a mental means whereby an object, a situation, or even a person can be
transformed or substituted for something or someone else in a movie or a play.
An example of a very subtle substitution would be the security blanket. The
security blanket represents the substitution of some feeling of comfort or
security, substituted in the physical blanket. Another form of substitution
familiar to many of us is the substitution of hunger for another emotion such as
boredom. We’re bored and so we eat. That gives us something to do.
Your
Dreamwright loves substitution. When we look at our dreams, we will discover
that the Dreamwright will often times substitute one prop for another, one
emotion for another, and one character for another. That is what dream
dictionaries attempt to explain rather simply. For example, they try to tell us
that a serpent in our dream really represents our sexual impulses. They attempt
to make the process of substitution simple. All we have to do is look up the
object in a dream dictionary and we have our answer. The problem with this is
that each one of us is going to make different substitutions while using the
same imagery. To some dreamers, a serpent showing up could quickly turn even the
most benevolent dream into a terrifying nightmare. For others, the serpent
could represent something deified. A dreamer may have a fantasy of owning a red
sports car, so when a red sports car shows up it could easily represent the
dreamer’s dream car and not necessarily what the dream dictionary might call
“sexual prowess.”
We must be
aware of substitution. It will affect everything in the dream from the cast of
characters, to the props, right down to the colors and the choice of the
setting
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