Dreams

[dj_muse]

 
For a long time, I didn't dream.  Maybe I did dream, but I never remembered it.  Every once in a while, I'd get vague impressions of things when I woke, or a fragment of something totally nonsensical.

Lately, I've been dreaming a lot.  Things are quite concrete, and peopled with characters who exist in my real life.  That's also unusual for me

Comments

[lovelips]

In my priestess training we did some dreamtime work. We had a system where we could choose to have a journal and pen next to the bed -specifically for dreams- and before getting up, turing the light on (we even had a pen w/a light) you would write down the dream.
It was a cool process. I don't write them down anymore but I watch them.
I keep mugwort over my bed, it helps bring on a lot of dreams.
When the moon is full I always get crazy dreams. i work out a lot of conflicts in dream time. Even ones with specific people, I end up not needing to do it in real time.

Though last nights dream-I was in a play-some shakespear play, and I was the opening act-singing and I had not studied my lines so I made it up. But everyone knew. It was weird. But cool

[dj_muse]

Dreams are amazing. For me, I'm always surprised when writing them down how often I have some variant of "nobody said this, but we all knew this." It's never in that "I believe everyone is thinking this" way of life, but a shared knowledge that just *is* like everyone knowing that you put on a jacket when you're cold.

[stefan11]

You are talking to yourself, for sure. Your subconscious expresses itself and now it's up to you whether you want to understand or not. Erich Fromm says (in "The Forgotten language") that each of us has a key to understand our dreams. At one time, I was writing each one, right after it took place (a little tape recorder would go better) and eventually I get to understand myself a bit better.

[dj_muse]

I started with Jungian dream analysis as part of an Intro to Counseling class that covered some aspects of Jungian and Freudian theory, among others (we touched on Fromm at one point, too). The archetype aspect of Jung's theories really seemed to hold true for my own dreams in a lot of respects.

Over the years, I went through various phases of attention to dreams before they "went away" for quite a while. Now they're back, and the analysis part of examining them is a lot easier. It almost seems like the analysis is becoming part of the dreaming process itself and I have these fully formed stories when I wake up that "tell themselves" to me. Very weird.