Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Twilight Dreaming IASDl2007final
Twilight Dreaming IASDl2007final
Twilight Dreaming IASDl2007final
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Workshop Structure
Exercise periods for practice
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
The Three Dreamings
Nighttime Dreaming
Twilight Dreaming
Day Dreaming
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Some of the Methods of Work and Their
Depth
General discussion
Journaling
Artwork
Focusing
Twilight dreaming
Dreams
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
What Do You Mean by “Depth”?
A place, usually outside of our workaday world, in
which our mind/body experiences poignant images and
sensations from a source that feels new to us.
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
What is hidden:
Present concerns
Past concerns
Anticipatory mechanisms asking “what if”
Wishes
Intuitions
Stirrings of body, soul, and spirit
Adopted perspectives
Adopted personal myths
Adopted roles (“subpersonalities)
Memories
Unknown
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Evidence – Studies & Experience
There is enough “evidence” to conclude:
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Journey into Depth with Twilight
Dreaming
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming Is Not:
Guided Imagery
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming Is Not:
Meditation
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming Is Not:
Contemplation
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming is Not:
Authorship
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Journey into Depth with
Twilight Dreaming
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming occurs
naturally in hypnogogia
(approaching sleep) and in
hypnopompia (leaving sleep). We
can develop a practice of close
attention of these natural
experiences and extend them to
other times during the day.
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming –
The Experience
Dream like imagery, full range of emotions, realistic to the point we
can treat the images as objects, persons, locations in a physical
world, images range from realistic to fantastic, ideas range from
simple to quite complex, insights range from little “ahas” to
surprising realizations.
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Jung Brings Twilight Dreaming
to the 20th Century
His influences and
how he gets started
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Doorway As Analogy
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – The Bottle
Going in
Making contact
Deep observing
Deep engagement
Coming out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – Going In
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – Going In
Don’t fight “I see only darkness.” “Nothing
happens.”
Lead-In
Lead-Out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming
Part Two
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Dreamwork and Twilight
Dreaming
Robert Bosnak (IASD
member; past IASD
President)
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming for Working
with Dreams and Other
Movements of the Psyche
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is,
knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
-Ray Bradbury
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Active Imagination
How long do I spend?
Not long.
A majority of your time may be
with Pre-Active Imagination.
Get into the mood and then introduce
your “work.”
It will be hard to remember everything
you experience. Try to set memory markers
and/or make notes.
Finish up and return.
How often?
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – Making Contact
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – Making Contact
Say hello with trust
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Exercise – Going In & Making
Contact
#2 – 10 minutes
Lead-In
Lead-Out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming
Part Three
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Jung on the Power of
Twilight Dreaming
“Continual conscious realization of unconscious fantasies,
together with active participation in the fantastic events, has,
as I have witnessed in a very large number of cases, the
effect of extending the conscious horizon by the inclusion of
numerous unconscious contents…and bringing about a
change of personality.”
Two Essays, para. 358.
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
More Jung
Jung
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Yet More Jung
“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully
and as carefully as you can---in some beautifully
bound book. Think of it in your imagination and try
to paint it. Then when these things are in some
precious book you can go to the book and turn over
the pages and for you it will be your church---your
cathedral---the silent places of your spirit where you
will find renewal. If anyone tells you that this is
morbid or neurotic and you listen to them---then you
will lose your soul---for in that book is your soul.”
Twilight Dreaming
Day Dreaming
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – The Bottle
Going in
Making contact
Deep observing
Deep engagement
Coming out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – Deep Observing
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – Deep Observing
Directed Fantasy
Free Fantasy
Memory/Associative
Active
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Why Did Jung Call It Active
Imagination?
Contrasted it with free association (Freud’s approach) where
all thoughts/feelings are encouraged. Jung wanted to stick
a specific seed image, squeezing everything possible out it.
This is of special interest when an image comes up of its own
accord such as in a dream or as compelling background
image from our daytime world. This work will help us
To find out its role at that moment in our psyches.
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Holding an Image -
Framework
Related concept
Related concept
Your image
Related concept
Related concept
Related concept
Stick “to the picture that comes up until all its possibilities
are exhausted…I would not let them go (in this case people)
Twilight Dreaming:
till I had found out what they were going to do…” Jung An Introduction
Holding an Image for
Amplification (Example)
In a bath
In the womb
In the sea
Cooking
Fish
Drowning
Stick “to the picture that comes up until all its possibilities
are exhausted…I would not let them go (in this case people)
Twilight Dreaming:
till I had found out what they were going to do…” Jung An Introduction
The Associational Journey
Your image
1st connection
2nd connection
3rd connection
4th connection
5th connection
6th connection
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Exercise – Deep Observing
#3 – 10 minutes
Lead-In
Lead-Out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming
Part Three
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming – The Bottle
Going in
Making contact
Deep observing
Deep engagement
Coming out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Jung’s Own Approaches
Tavistock Lectures
Aunt’s photo
(Grandfather coming down
the stairs)
Jungian analysts have been the ones putting the technique into
public awareness and the public domain.
Some cautions for those who have problems telling reality from
the inner world or for people who would be uncomfortable
working with their inner stuff. “The dangers of imaginative
procedures,” claims Jungian Verena Kast, “seem to have been
overestimated. An excessive flood of images may mostly be stopped by
means of a change in body posture, stimulation of perceptions of the
exterior world, and exact description and recording of the images.”
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Further Cautions
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming –
Deep Engagement –
Three Choices–
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Jung’s Active Imagination
Inner Figures
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Jung on Inner Figures
“You must step into the fantasy yourself and compel the
figures to give you an answer. Only in this way is the
unconscious integrated with consciousness by means of a
dialectical procedure, a dialogue between yourself and
the unconscious figures.”
Letters 1, p. 561
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Dialogue Is Possible With
More Than People
You can also “dialogue” with:
Places
Objects
Feelings
Events
Concepts
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming –
Deep Engagement –
Testing Interpretations
Embody a dream image (be there, sensory
awareness). Bring in idea of what it
is/means to you. Feel your body for shifts
in energy, “ahas”, shifts in breathing,
shifts in emotion. Look for shapeshifting
into another image; repeat above with this
image.
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twilight
Dreaming –
Deep Engagement –
Getting There
Feel things with your senses.
Making contact
Deep observing
Deep engagement
Coming out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
How to Do Twight
Dreaming – Coming Out
Find a stopping point…either timed or a
natural place to end.
Lead-In
Lead-Out
Twilight Dreaming:
An Introduction
Twilight Dreaming
The End (for now)