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“Homo homini
daemonius.” 2. Dream Objectification
A Course
— lat. man is a demon to in Dream
man “Don’t look at yourself, look at the world around you.”
Magic
(Martin Buber)
With the newly gained ability to remember and transcribe our dreams we Dream
have made a huge leap forward. However, the pure transcription of our Magic
dreams only presents the surface of our dream reality. In this chapter we will Part 1
delve deeper into the language, story scripts and images of our dreams. The
goal is to decipher the basic grammar of our personal dream language and
Dream
to start engaging in more interactive dialogues between our dream and
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daytime consciousness.
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The first step in dream objectification is to understand the fact that the first
person perspective through which we experience our dreams is not the
same as our personality or daytime conscious. Your dream-ego is different
from your daytime ego; they represent two aspects of consciousness of your
individuality.
Here is how we can delve below the surface of our dreams in four simple
steps:
Contact:
Dream Script
your name *
Summarize the main plot of the dream in a few short sentences. In doing so
identify the basic script that underlies the dream experience. However, you’ll
need to change to an objective perspective on capturing your dream:
your email * instead of ‘I’ or ‘myself’ when talking about the dream-ego use the third
person singular (he/she). I.e. instead of ‘I am taking flight from the burglar.’
you will note: ‘The dream-ego or s/he takes flight of the burglar’.
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Dream Heading
Chose a fitting heading for your dream. If your dream was a short story in a
book, which title would it bear? Feel free to get inspired by todays
newspaper headings. However, rather than being overly imaginative or
romantic the heading should give a first impression of the dream’s central
plot or conflict.
Dream Conflict
3. Dream-Self Observation
Just like we have spent years of our daytime life to discover our own
personalities, our likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses this method
allows us to discover our Dream-Selves and compare these to our daytime
personalities.
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Self will act out all the attitudes, desires and needs which we forbid
ourselves during daytime and which sink into our subconscious if
suppressed over long periods. Often this can explain why our experiences
during daytime and in dreams seem to be mirror-images. At the same time
the actions of our Dream-Self can be understood as rehearsals: we are given
the chance to experiment and rehearse attitudes and actions that we aren’t
ready to practice during daytime. This opens up new possibilities for our
daytime Self.
4. Dream Symbols
4.1 Context
The intent of the first chapter was to gain access to the material of our
dreams and to realize and understand it from different perspectives. The
previous chapters provided techniques to reduce the common over-
identification between our daytime Selves and Dream-Selves, between
dreamer and dream - and thus introduce the required distance for a rather
objective analysis and understanding of our dreams. The following chapter
will introduce us to the actual material of our dreams - especially to the
symbols we encounter in dreams.
The word ‘symbol’ is based on the greek verb ‘symballein’ which means
‘throwing together’ or ‘assembling’. Originally it was used in sayings that
referred to compiling, concealing or veiling. The sign that becomes a symbol
encrypts, it masks the meaning of an act or expression. The uninitiated
spectator isn’t able to understand the encrypted message any longer.
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The goal of this chapter is to support your conscious in gaining access to the
concealed meaning of your dream symbols. To illustrate this process let’s
take a look at the following model. It depicts the way of perceiving reality that
most people would call ‘common’ or ‘normal’ and suppresses our dream
reality, i.e. experiences of our Dream-Selves:
Once we have opened the gates of our dream reality to our conscious and
started to connect daytime experiences and experiences of our Dream-
Selves the model will change. What used to be a unidimensional and reactive
model explaining our Ego’s reactions to the impressions of the world
becomes multidimensional and interactive. We start to realize the
interconnectedness of ourselves and the world around us, of our
experiences during daytime and in dreams:
In order to unveil the individual meaning of our dream symbols we can turn
to the most classical technique of dream interpretation and Psychoanalysis,
Free Association (FA). The power of this method that was derived from early
approaches to hypnosis lies in the fact that rather than confining us in a pre-
set framework or codex of interpretations it sets us free to discover and
learn the unique language of our dream symbols. It is the dreamer that
speaks, not the analyst.
Once we have used it for the first time successfully applying FA becomes
incredibly easy. We can simply note down one or more dream symbols we
encountered during our dreams on a piece of paper. Then - without trying to
control - we write down all catchwords and prompts that spring to our mind
spontaneously. The only important thing during this process is maintaining a
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completely open state of mind and not to start filtering words that come up
as associations. Each idea, each term is of equal value until we feel we have
noted down all important associations this symbol evokes in our minds.
What has happened at this point is that the symbol has opened up, it has
expanded and revealed its individual meaning to us. This meaning doesn’t
need to be stable but can change from dream to dream. Often it involves
puns and play of words that make us blush or smile and allow to further
uncover the meaning of our dream.
• Let’s replace the symbols in our dreams with their actual meaning.
Where do these meanings oppose each other, where do they
harmonize?
• How does the headline of your dream change if you replace the
dream symbols with their meaning?
• Which secret motives of action of your Dream-Self become apparent
once the symbolic meaning is laid open?
• Which differences do you see in how you deal with the meaning of
your symbols during daytime and in dreams? Which commonalities
are apparent?
• Which role do the meaning of your dream symbols play in your
everyday life? Are they easy to discover or rare and only seldom to be
encountered?
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