2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
In a dream, we spend a significant part of our life, restoring the active activity of the body and carefully processing incoming information from the external and internal world. Dreams are a very important part of human life … they strive to convey to us messages about our psychological state, about what is missing, about the possibilities for solving problems, ways to change for the better, suppressed drives, repressed feelings, incomplete relationships, etc. People knew about this even in ancient times, considering dreams to be "messages of the Gods."
In the seventies, two American ethnologists discovered in the wilds of the forests of Malaysia a primitive tribe of the Senua ("people of dreams"), whose whole life was subordinated to dreams. Every morning at breakfast around the fire, everyone talked only about what they saw in their dreams at night. If one of the senua in a dream committed injustice to someone, he should have made a gift to the victim. If someone attacked a fellow tribesman in a dream, he had to apologize and make a gift to the victim in order to earn forgiveness.
Senua's dream world was more informative than real life. If a child said that he met a tiger in a dream and ran away, he was forced to see the predator the next night, fight with him and kill him. The old men explained to the child how to achieve this. If the child did not succeed in defeating the tiger in a dream, he was subjected to the condemnation of the entire tribe.
According to the senua system of concepts, if you have a nightmare, you need to defeat your enemies, and then demand a gift from them in order to turn them into your friends. The most desirable subject for sleep was flight - the entire tribe congratulated the one who flew in the dream. The first flight in a child's dream was like the first communion. The child was overwhelmed with gifts, and then they explained how to fly away to distant countries in a dream and bring outlandish gifts from there.
The amazing thing was that this tribe did not know violence and mental illness, it was a society without stress and wars. Thanks to the attentive attitude of Senua to dreams.
Z. Freud called dreams the royal road to the unconscious, which can lead a person to consolation and healing. K. Jung gave the dream a deeper meaning, believing that dreams are inextricably linked with both the past and the future. They reveal the content of the collective unconscious and contain messages with an esoteric meaning. F. Perls believed that a person's dreams reflect various fragments of his personality and when playing separate fragments of a dream, through his experience, one can determine the hidden meaning (without resorting to analysis and interpretation, as psychoanalysts do).
I love working with dreams in a gestalt approach and I pay a lot of attention to them in personal therapy with clients. And, perhaps, I will never tire of being amazed at how wisely the human subconscious is arranged and what amazing messages it encodes in dreams.
On his own, a person can also try to find out what his dreamer was trying to say, although this will not give the same effect as in therapy (it is much more effective to do this with someone who can help him realize, experience and assimilate projections, show where and how he resists, what is he afraid of, etc.).
For this you need:
- Record your sleep after waking up.
- Walk through it in your mind, choosing the most emotionally intense part of it.
- Highlight each character of this part of the dream (even if it is a path, a bucket, or a fly).
- Become every character from a dream, enter this role - feel what he feels, look at the world through his eyes, do what he wants - and tell (record) the dream on behalf of this character, as if it is happening to him directly now (this way you can find out what each character symbolizes).
- Consider if there is someone (or something) in real life to whom the characters' feelings or actions can be addressed.
- Allow the main characters to meet, play out a dialogue between them, as it develops, they will be integrated into one whole. However, doing this on your own can be very problematic.
- Ask a dream why he dreamed (what is his message).
For example, according to this scheme, I disassembled my vivid and incredibly emotional dream, which I had a long time ago, but the memories of it blur into a smile on my lips to this day.
I dreamed of a white limousine rushing through the streets of a night city, inside which a huge pool of clear water splashed. Near the pool, a sturdy old man with wise eyes was kneeling and tenderly holding a newborn translucent jaguar with phosphorescent spots in his hands. It was this part of the dream that was most intensely emotionally colored.
Having played the role of each character, I clearly realized that the limousine is my body rushing along the road of life, the pool is the soul in which love for myself was born, lulled in the arms of life experience, inner core, self-confidence and unconditional acceptance. It was these qualities that I needed in order to continue to further raise a large and strong animal from a small kitten.
That was the message of the dream.
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