2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
As a child, I was very fond of fairy tales, and one of my favorites was the fairy tale "The Sleeping Beauty". I remember it was very interesting to me, and what dreams were seen by all who fell asleep in the castle for a hundred years: the same or each one his own. Later in my professional activity, and just in life, I paid attention to cases of the same dreams in loved ones. There was a feeling that the dream comes one for two.
I pondered this phenomenon for a long time, and could not find the answer in any way. From the point of view of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, a dream is just a repressed unconscious. But in this case, the "sameness" of dreams is just a coincidence. However, coincidence cannot explain a fairly frequent phenomenon. C. G. Jung explained the same dreams by the fact that they are born at the level of the collective unconscious, of which we are all custodians. But, if we admit such a possibility, then how to explain that the same dreams are often dreamed by close people, and not by neighbors in the staircase, for example. My reflections would have remained reflections if I had not entered into group therapy.
I was surprised to find that group dynamics involve the synchronization of dreams among group members. When the group members told their dreams, it became obvious that all the dreams of the members are permeated with one theme, like a thread.
I will give an example of one session. At the beginning of the session, participant R. tells her dream in which she sees herself as a hunter who has entered into a fierce fight with a tiger. In response to this, a member of the group P. recalls his dream in which he fled from the killer who was chasing him along the narrow winding streets of the medieval city. And then the third member of the group recalls a similar dream in which he became the culprit of a terrible car accident with numerous human casualties.
It is quite obvious that all these dreams have a common theme of aggression and death, while they were dreamed about at the same time by members of the same group. It should also be noted that in the previous topic, the group quite emotionally discussed the exit from therapy of one of the participants. This exit caused a very strong negative response. Some participants reported that they felt angry and resentful towards those who left the therapy process, others noted that they felt rejected.
And the fantasy came to me that such common dreams are one of the means of interpersonal communication between group members. In other words, the dream has not only an individual, but also a social nature.
My further observations as a leader of therapy and a participant in dreaming groups confirmed my hypothesis.
But. As it turned out, I did not discover America. Contemporary psychoanalyst Peter J. Schlachet in Sharing Dreams in Group Therapy notes that dreaming is more interpersonal than we previously thought. According to the author of the article, a dream is a message not only and not so much to the dreamer, but also to all members of the therapeutic group.
This hypothesis is supported by the observation of almost all leading therapeutic groups using dream analysis as a therapy, that group members very often exhibit abnormal abilities in understanding the messages inherent in dreams.
If we turn to shamanic practices, as well as to the experience of "wild" tribes, we will see that dreams were quite often a way of communication between people. So Peter J. Schlach, in his article in the Sanoi tribe of Malaysia, "dreaming is an integral part of social order and daily life."In the same article, the author refers to the customs of the Australian aborigines, who "consider the vision of dreams as the entrance to the deep unity of things, including the social system itself."
Thus, we can say that the nature of dreams is much more multifaceted and multifaceted than we are used to thinking. A dream is a message from the Universe not only to the dreamer, but to the whole world. The dreamer in this context acts rather as a channel for transmitting information. Given this hypothesis, we dream of dreams so that we would share them with others.
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