A Little Bit of Dreams by Stase Michaels

Author:Stase Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling Ethos

THREE MAIN WAYS TO FIND THE MEANING OF A DREAM SYMBOL. Explore the following well-established approaches of finding the meaning of a dream symbol; a detailed description of each approach follows. As you try out various methods on your dreams, you will notice that the selection of symbols by your psyche is anything but random! The mind works hard to select a specific symbol, to convey a precise message.

FREUD’S PAST ASSOCIATIONS METHOD. Take a symbol backward in time to a past memory or an experience and relate the past tidbit to the current dream story, and to a current life situation.

JUNG’S PARALLEL ASSOCIATIONS. Explore what a dream symbol means to you now, as its current meanings, for you.

FRITZ PERL’S “BECOME THE SYMBOL” APPROACH. This is a dramatic role-playing technique. You experience a symbol or a main dream character by engaging in a pretend conversation with it. As you let yourself become the symbol, you bypass the logical mind and intuit the symbol’s hidden undercurrents.

FREUD: LINK A DREAM SYMBOL TO YOUR PAST. In working with the dreams of his patients, Freud noticed that dream symbols related to their past experiences, ones that had an emotional impact on the dreamer. To investigate the meaning of their symbols, he instructed clients to go back in time to those past memories and, as they lay on a couch, he let them dredge up their past associations about their symbols. As such memories surfaced, Freud linked their memories to the dream symbol, which could be either an object or a person. This “going backward in time” effect is like a magician pulling a long scarf out of a sleeve—a host of colorful memories pop out.

Following a dream symbol to its past origins is easier than it sounds. Suppose you dream of a child’s sled. Think of the last time you saw or experienced a sled. Did you have a sled as a child? See a sled in a store window? Read about a sled or notice a red sled in a movie scene? Review what were you doing, thinking, or feeling when you experienced the sled and see if that memory connects to what is happening now, as a dream-related issue. If something clicks, examine how that memory might shed light on current circumstances related to the dream.

DREAM EXAMPLE 1: THE COLOR YELLOW. In his real life, a man walked out on his wife. On the last day that he was at home, his wife wore a yellow dress. A few months later the man’s dreams began to fill with the color yellow. The yellow hue became connected to leaving his wife, and became a connection, for him, of sorrow and sadness. Because negative feelings can tie you up in knots and spiral into depression, the color yellow became a message about dealing with his marriage, or at least dealing with his feelings. To avoid depression, drinking, or other self-destructive behaviors, repeated dreams about the color yellow urged him to either make peace with his wife or deal with the pain of the breakup.

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