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How to Respond to Sharing About Dreams
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When responding to another person’s dream, it’s important to remember that you are always talking about yourself.
Every idea you share comes from your own associations and inner dynamics. Your interpretation of a dream tells the group about your perceptual process.
Keep yourself aware of this, and minimize projecting your ideas onto the dreamer, which could have a tendency to feel dominating.
Many dream groups have evolved an etiquette for sharing insights. Try beginning your sentence with, “If this were my dream, I’d think it was about…” or “If I’d been dreaming this, I’d be aware of the fact that….” If the word “you” creeps into the sharing, stop and begin again with, “If this were my dream…” Or, “My sense of it is…”
When the other group members share their impressions of your dream, you don’t need to comment. Let all the ideas come in and meld.
The most accurate insights will trigger your “truth signal” that sensation of “aha!,” tingling, chills up your arms, warmth spreading across your chest, or something clicking into place.
When someone’s interpretation doesn’t fit your dream, or when it touches on an interpretation you don’t want to hear, you may experience an “anxiety signal,” which can feel like a contraction in the stomach, chest, or throat, or can make you feel cold, clammy, tight, or heavy.
After everyone has shared, you can give feedback about how it all relates to your perceptions, inner process, and life.
Other Techniques and Dream Group Activities
If you want a little variety, your dream group could try the following processes to liven things up:
After everyone shares their dream, each person can spend ten minutes drawing a picture of the dream. Then spend another ten minutes writing a poem from the picture, and share one by one with the others.
Have several group members volunteer to play roles in one person’s dream. Act out the scenes as the dreamer originally dreamed them, then ad-lib and let the little drama play out spontaneously and see where it goes.
After everyone shares a dream, do a group meditation and each person goes back into the dream and extends it. Then come back and share what happened.
After sharing a dream, each person picks one of the dream symbols. The group meditates and each person pretends to be the symbol and does a direct writing process for ten minutes, speaking as the object, describing what its purpose is, what it needs from the dreamer, why it showed up in the dream, etc.
Have one person share a dream. The others make lists of 6-word pairs from the dream and write a poem. Continue on to the next person, and the next. In the end, give each person the poems relating to her dream.
Watch for the Experience of Group Mind, Group Dreaming
After your group has been meeting for a while, it may synchronize itself uncannily and start a special process in which participants activate and empower each other, both while attending the group and when apart.
Common themes may run through the group members’ lives, and some people may dream parallel dreams, or even show up in each other’s dreams.
Watch for group dreams members may dream about the dream group itself, or another small group that feels similar to the dream group.
The likelihood is that the work begun during waking reality is continuing at night, as well as between meetings.
Let the group mind help direct the flow of the group and show participants the specific lessons to be learned.
You might try an experiment where the group deliberately sets out to incubate a common dream they will have together, or have individual responses to a common dream goal.
For instance, the group might set a goal to dream about an ancient Greek dream temple.
In your dream, you might see yourself dressed as a priest, while someone else might have a dream about how a healing ritual was performed, and another might dream about the temple snakes.
In another variation, the group could decide to meet at a common location, like in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
See if you can dream about each other in that location.
When each dream group session completes you might find your own way to personally acknowledge the other participants for their contributions to your life.
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How to Respond to Sharing About Dreams
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When responding to another person’s dream, it’s important to remember that you are always talking about yourself.
Every idea you share comes from your own associations and inner dynamics. Your interpretation of a dream tells the group about your perceptual process.
Keep yourself aware of this, and minimize projecting your ideas onto the dreamer, which could have a tendency to feel dominating.
Many dream groups have evolved an etiquette for sharing insights. Try beginning your sentence with, “If this were my dream, I’d think it was about…” or “If I’d been dreaming this, I’d be aware of the fact that….” If the word “you” creeps into the sharing, stop and begin again with, “If this were my dream…” Or, “My sense of it is…”
When the other group members share their impressions of your dream, you don’t need to comment. Let all the ideas come in and meld.
The most accurate insights will trigger your “truth signal” that sensation of “aha!,” tingling, chills up your arms, warmth spreading across your chest, or something clicking into place.
When someone’s interpretation doesn’t fit your dream, or when it touches on an interpretation you don’t want to hear, you may experience an “anxiety signal,” which can feel like a contraction in the stomach, chest, or throat, or can make you feel cold, clammy, tight, or heavy.
After everyone has shared, you can give feedback about how it all relates to your perceptions, inner process, and life.
Other Techniques and Dream Group Activities
If you want a little variety, your dream group could try the following processes to liven things up:
After everyone shares their dream, each person can spend ten minutes drawing a picture of the dream. Then spend another ten minutes writing a poem from the picture, and share one by one with the others.
Have several group members volunteer to play roles in one person’s dream. Act out the scenes as the dreamer originally dreamed them, then ad-lib and let the little drama play out spontaneously and see where it goes.
After everyone shares a dream, do a group meditation and each person goes back into the dream and extends it. Then come back and share what happened.
After sharing a dream, each person picks one of the dream symbols. The group meditates and each person pretends to be the symbol and does a direct writing process for ten minutes, speaking as the object, describing what its purpose is, what it needs from the dreamer, why it showed up in the dream, etc.
Have one person share a dream. The others make lists of 6-word pairs from the dream and write a poem. Continue on to the next person, and the next. In the end, give each person the poems relating to her dream.
Watch for the Experience of Group Mind, Group Dreaming
After your group has been meeting for a while, it may synchronize itself uncannily and start a special process in which participants activate and empower each other, both while attending the group and when apart.
Common themes may run through the group members’ lives, and some people may dream parallel dreams, or even show up in each other’s dreams.
Watch for group dreams members may dream about the dream group itself, or another small group that feels similar to the dream group.
The likelihood is that the work begun during waking reality is continuing at night, as well as between meetings.
Let the group mind help direct the flow of the group and show participants the specific lessons to be learned.
You might try an experiment where the group deliberately sets out to incubate a common dream they will have together, or have individual responses to a common dream goal.
For instance, the group might set a goal to dream about an ancient Greek dream temple.
In your dream, you might see yourself dressed as a priest, while someone else might have a dream about how a healing ritual was performed, and another might dream about the temple snakes.
In another variation, the group could decide to meet at a common location, like in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
See if you can dream about each other in that location.
When each dream group session completes you might find your own way to personally acknowledge the other participants for their contributions to your life.
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