I’ve been keeping a dream diary as a
method to being more aware of my unconscious. I bring this to a few weekly
therapy sessions in order to analyse my unconscious within my dreams. This led
me into thinking more about dreams and what they mean. This took me on the
following journey of exploration in analyzing my own dreams and dream theory of
Freud and Jung.
My method of working through this
dream analysis is to research ‘The interpretation of dreams’, By Sigmund Freud
and am currently reading ‘Dreams, memories and reflections’ By Carl Jung. My
way of analysing my dreams (sometimes with my art therapist) is too be open to
the various meanings it can be. I feel dreams are more than attempts to surface
unconscious wants and desires but to work out difficulties or conscious
activities that are too difficult for the individual to express in their
conscious; they are symbolic in this sense. My dreams tend to relate to what
difficulties I am going through in my personal therapy sessions, they come out
from my unconscious through the power of the dream. I guess in this sense I
have a view that leans towards a Jungian method of dream analysis.
Reflecting on why I am particularly interested in dreams:
I like to think about my dreams I feel
because a dream is something you cannot hide from. It shows me in the most
vulnerable light. I believe this is why I love recording my dreams at the
moment; it’s a way to really know how you feel about situations without having
to defend other people for instance. Normally I feel if I’m having trouble with
a person I’m most likely to defend them in a way and to question what I have
done however in a dream my way of thinking changes. I do not consider myself so
readily! I also enjoy piecing the puzzle of a dream, as some do not make sense
so I have to figure it out in order to make sense of it. I like this detective
type aspect to dream analysis!
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