Dreams,
Hypnosis and Healing
Dream Principles
All dreams come to us in the service of health and wholeness.
No dreams ever come to tell us what we already know. Their
context is to move us further along in our growth and development.
The dream is a natural pathway for bridging the gap between
the conscious and unconscious. Both have critical roles to
play in the balance of the total self.
It is in the world of dreams that the unconscious is working
out powerful dynamics inside us. What we do not deal with
in our waking life comes up in our dreams. Dreams do not scare
us to keep us frightened. They motivate us to deal with what
we would reject. Dreams often speak in extremes to get our
attention.
Fundamentals
1. The dream you are most likely to remember will be the last
dream of the night, which normally occurs just before you
wake up. Sometimes a dream will wake you up in the middle
of the night. Whatever the case, be still and play the dream
back in your mind, letting all its images make an impression
on your mind. Grasp all images even if they seem trivial.
Fragments are important in themselves and can cause more information
to come to the surface later. If you have a feeling of a dream
but can’t remember it, try shifting your body. Dreams
seem to surface in the position in which they were dreamed
as if the body has a dream memory.
2. Remember that most of the dreams we remember are highly
charged emotionally and occur at times that are most stressful.
Dream research shows that the more conflicts we are experiencing
in our daytime life, the more dream sleep we need. Dreams
are our attempts to resolve these conflicts and offer new
perspectives. The source of a dream’s conflict may be
difficult to determine, but it is important to remember that
the dream generally does reflect conflict in our waking lives.
If you can connect the conflict in a dream’s theme with
a real-life conflict, you have a key to the dream’s
meaning as well as to understanding and resolving a major
issue in your life.
3. Give yourself the positive suggestion to write down your
dreams immediately in the middle of the night, even in the
dark if necessary. Or try recording them into a tape recorder.
To preserve their intimacy, write them in the present tense.
“I am walking down a long road when.....” Record
everything—thoughts, feelings, emotions, conversation,
angles, colors, people, no matter how weird they may seem.
Try to stay in the chronological order of the dream to preserve
its structure. Let your words flow out spontaneously but if
you get stuck, give yourself time to get the precise words
to describe the dream. Use a word even if it seems strange
to you. Later on, it may have another meaning to add.
4. The next morning or soon after, look again at the dream
and its theme. Ask yourself, What am I doing in the dream?
(Observer, doer, creator) and What are my immediate associations
with the dream?
What seems to be the dream’s theme or overall message?
What events of the day may have triggered the dream?
What events that I am anticipating may be reflected in the
dream?
Why did I need this dream?
What would I like to avoid in this dream? (What traits do
I have in common with that image?) What is my response to
the problem in the dream?
How does this dream resemble another I’ve had previously?
Choose the part(s) of the dream you want to explore and pay
attention to the images that resonate to you. These images
may appear in later dreams and provide a teaching for you.
Later, rewrite the dream, incorporating your insight about
it, and give it a title.
Dreams and Hypnosis
The role of the hypnotist is not to interpret a dreamer’s
dreams by using dream symbol books. The role of the hypnotist
is to ask questions to allow the dreamer to understand the
dream and its relationship to his/her life. Having your client
maintain a dream journal to share with you, will help you
to understand more completely his or her issues.
1. Dream Incubation Technique
Teach your client to incubate a dream by inducing the feeling
of relaxation and meditation. Concentrate intensively on a
particular problem. Formulate what is wanted to be known into
a question and repeat that question over and over again in
the mind, thus programming the dreaming mind to take over
when falling asleep.
Under hypnosis, suggest that the client will have a powerful
dream that will cause her/him to wake up and record the dream.
Suggest that the dream will give insight into the current
problem.
2. Guided Re-Entry Technique
Under hypnosis, help your client to re-enter the dream and
experience it more fully as well as possibly resolve it. Ask
questions of the dreamer to evoke responses relevant to the
dream and to connect it to what is going on externally.
3. Sharing a Dream with a Partner or Group: A Step-By-Step
Guide
Sit in a circle in a relaxed or meditative state.
While concentrating on the dreamer’s words, the group
hears the dreamer read his dream, concentrating on the dream
as if it were their own.
One by one, the listeners tell their reactions and projections
to the dream to give insight to the dreamer. They do not interpret
the dream for the dreamer; they only tell what the dream evokes
for them.
The dreamer uses these projections and relates them to real-life
events surrounding the dream, possibly considering other interpretations.
The group or partner has an ethical responsibility to keep
the dream confidential.
Dreams and Healing
1. Healing is the process of bringing resolution to oppositions
in the body, soul, mind, and life. This means that the way
to heal is to face conflict rather than to avoid it.
2. Healing includes dealing with the fear or adversity in
our dreams so that it is resolved.
3. We can even use dream-work to heal the dream itself or
allow it go to a natural resolution of conflicts.
4. Healing, like hypnosis, involves removing inner blocks
and evoking integration in oneself and one’s life.
5. The need for healing is actually a spiritual issue to find
wholeness (integration of all parts of the self) and new meaning
to life.
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