Preparation for your Dream Analysis
- Draw your dream
- Write down as much as you remember from your dream (the full ‘movie’ or a tiny snippet or even one character with one descriptive word will do)
Highlight all the objects, animate and inanimate – anything which feels like a symbol.
If there are any preliminary descriptive works with each symbol, write them down next to the symbol.
Take some nice deep breaths breathing into your belly in the Hara area – area between the navel and the pubic bone (this is where your Soul gravitates…) then for a couple of minutes focus on following the natural pattern of your breathing in and breathing out.
Acknowledge any thoughts, nod to each and gently put them aside and refocus on your breathing.
Simple script to use for you dream analysis
Have a little conversation from your, the dreamer’s, relaxed perspective with each Symbol, one at a time, asking the following questions:
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- ‘Hi _______________________ (a descriptive name of an object), here you are appearing in my dream. I’m wondering/and if… if you could speak what would you like to communicate by your presence?’
- ‘I’m wondering/and… what part of my Body, Soul or Spirit do you represent?’
- ‘Thank you very much for the insight, and I’m wondering if there is any message you would like to convey to me?’
Trust the first answer which you feel the object is giving no matter if it makes any sense or not. Remember the answers or write them down. Thank each object, open your eyes, ‘shake off’ the energy of the object and then connect with the next one; do some conscious integration, repeat for each one.
At the end have a look at your analysis and read what each object was saying. If you are happy with this new perspective than this is the end of work.
Now you need to act upon messages and integrate all split parts of your Self (represented by objects in your dream) into a newly re-aligned Self.
If something doesn’t feel right, would you like to make a different ending to a dream? Usually, even if you analyse a sheer nightmare you will arrive at a fully neutral message and meaning. But if you still don’t like something, make a different, conscious end to the dream! Record it all here.
It helps if you creatively assume a posture, shape or movement of the object or person from the dream. Don’t limit yourself – once I had a dream work integrated into a Colourpuncture session when an 80 something gentleman ‘became’ an envelope 🙂 on the floor in a tiny room of a busy clinic.
With time you internalise the process and create some variety of questions the way you like to ask them. This script above is just a start, but it’s a time tested, working – simple yet effective – script.
The same script maybe used to facilitate any dream of your client/patient/friend/family member, just change the wording from ‘my/mine’ to ‘your/yours’. When you facilitate somebody’s dream, you are not only helping this person – you also learn a great deal about the dream analysis process and by reflection, about your own process. Highly recommended to facilitate! You can offer this from your side only or find yourself a dream buddy and have some regular dream analysis focused exchanges.
Happy Dreamwork!
