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itself. Everything is there for a reason, whether it represents itself,
or something else. That’s why dream analysis is necessary, to ferret out these
things and find out what they’re trying to tell us.
Mission #12
1. Look at the images
in your dream one by one. Start with the cast of characters. Go through props,
and then colors and emotions. Ask yourself what each of these things is in real
life. Pretend that you’re talking to someone who doesn’t know what a snake is,
for example.
2. Is each one of these
characters behaving the way they normally would in a real life situation? For
example, was the snake in your dream doing something that snakes normally do?
Was it crawling and slithering on the ground? Was it resting on a rock?
3. If it wasn’t doing
what it normally does, then what was it doing that makes it different? For
example, was the snake singing and dancing around. Was it ticklish? Was it
meaner than you would think a snake should be? Was it nicer than you think a
snake should be? Is this a substitution for how you feel about someone close to
you?
4. Notice the emotions
of your dream. Is the emotion you experienced a normal emotion for the
circumstances? Did you overreact or under react to something?
5. Notice the colors of
your dream. Are they what you expect? For example, is the sky blue or did you
notice that it was a purplish green?
6. What are your waking
life feelings toward each one of the characters and images and feelings in your
dream?
7. Is that consistent with how they played
themselves in the dream? For example, if you’re terrified of snakes, yet
there’s one in the dream that you seem to dote on, that inconsistency could be
a sign that you have made a substitution. Or if you passionately hate the color
red, but in your dream you paint an entire room red, then you’ve got a good
indication that there’s some substitution going on.
8. Look for something
that in general may have been substituted for something else. For example, if
you dream about being stuck in the middle of the ocean and you feel like you’re
drowning, could this be a substitution for a situation in your life. Are you
overwhelmed? Do you feel as if you’ve gotten in over your head?
The Last Action—Filling In:
Often times an
actor will have done all of his or her work, only to find that there are still
some gaps that they cannot reconcile. In this case, the actor will have to make
a leap of faith based on all the work done up to that point, and fill in the
gaps. If an actor must lash out at a character in the screenplay, but is given
no reason, the actor must take all that he or she knows about the character and
fill in the gaps so that when they lash out, it makes sense to the actor as
well as to the audience.
This is true
with dreams as well. Often, the dream will not give us much information about a
dream situation. How many times have we had a dream that someone was
approaching us, and with no reason whatsoever, we reacted in terror and tried
to get away? Most of us have had dreams where we lash out at a seemingly
innocent person for no reason at all, and there’s nothing in the dream to
indicate that they did anything at all to deserve our ire.
Just like the
actor we must discover the circumstances that might have led to the action. In
some cases, the actor could have decided that it was a look on the face of the
person they blew up at. Maybe they decided that it was their own fear of
getting too close or too trusting. But as I said before, the actor is very
careful about filling in these blanks and only does so after having exhausted
all other options to understanding the motives of the character.
When a dream
has not given us much information regarding our “motivation” we must then be
very careful in assuming it. We start by looking at each of our decisions as
“possibilities,” i.e. why
or something else. That’s why dream analysis is necessary, to ferret out these
things and find out what they’re trying to tell us.
Mission #12
1. Look at the images
in your dream one by one. Start with the cast of characters. Go through props,
and then colors and emotions. Ask yourself what each of these things is in real
life. Pretend that you’re talking to someone who doesn’t know what a snake is,
for example.
2. Is each one of these
characters behaving the way they normally would in a real life situation? For
example, was the snake in your dream doing something that snakes normally do?
Was it crawling and slithering on the ground? Was it resting on a rock?
3. If it wasn’t doing
what it normally does, then what was it doing that makes it different? For
example, was the snake singing and dancing around. Was it ticklish? Was it
meaner than you would think a snake should be? Was it nicer than you think a
snake should be? Is this a substitution for how you feel about someone close to
you?
4. Notice the emotions
of your dream. Is the emotion you experienced a normal emotion for the
circumstances? Did you overreact or under react to something?
5. Notice the colors of
your dream. Are they what you expect? For example, is the sky blue or did you
notice that it was a purplish green?
6. What are your waking
life feelings toward each one of the characters and images and feelings in your
dream?
7. Is that consistent with how they played
themselves in the dream? For example, if you’re terrified of snakes, yet
there’s one in the dream that you seem to dote on, that inconsistency could be
a sign that you have made a substitution. Or if you passionately hate the color
red, but in your dream you paint an entire room red, then you’ve got a good
indication that there’s some substitution going on.
8. Look for something
that in general may have been substituted for something else. For example, if
you dream about being stuck in the middle of the ocean and you feel like you’re
drowning, could this be a substitution for a situation in your life. Are you
overwhelmed? Do you feel as if you’ve gotten in over your head?
The Last Action—Filling In:
Often times an
actor will have done all of his or her work, only to find that there are still
some gaps that they cannot reconcile. In this case, the actor will have to make
a leap of faith based on all the work done up to that point, and fill in the
gaps. If an actor must lash out at a character in the screenplay, but is given
no reason, the actor must take all that he or she knows about the character and
fill in the gaps so that when they lash out, it makes sense to the actor as
well as to the audience.
This is true
with dreams as well. Often, the dream will not give us much information about a
dream situation. How many times have we had a dream that someone was
approaching us, and with no reason whatsoever, we reacted in terror and tried
to get away? Most of us have had dreams where we lash out at a seemingly
innocent person for no reason at all, and there’s nothing in the dream to
indicate that they did anything at all to deserve our ire.
Just like the
actor we must discover the circumstances that might have led to the action. In
some cases, the actor could have decided that it was a look on the face of the
person they blew up at. Maybe they decided that it was their own fear of
getting too close or too trusting. But as I said before, the actor is very
careful about filling in these blanks and only does so after having exhausted
all other options to understanding the motives of the character.
When a dream
has not given us much information regarding our “motivation” we must then be
very careful in assuming it. We start by looking at each of our decisions as
“possibilities,” i.e. why
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