(This blog was
originally posted on January 10, 2014)
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| Photo courtesy of Microsoft Where do you go when you dream…? |
The most important part of dream
therapy is to gauge the content of the dream. There are no universal symbols in
dreams. Different things mean different things to different people. To help my
clients translate the information their subconscious mind is communicating to them
in a dream, I ask the following questions:
1. At what stage of the night did the
dream occur?
2. Was the dream physiological or
psychological? For example, did you hear a knock on your bedroom door and
incorporate the sound in your dream (psychological dream)? The most common
cause of a “falling dream” is a rapid loss of blood sugar; the person has a
sensation of running, pulling or falling (physiological dream).
3. What is the timing of the dream? Where
are you geographically: in your current environment, in your childhood home, at
college, etc.? This information is an important clue about your subconscious
and the history of the development of your belief system.
4. What was your dream about (content)?
Was it literal or symbolic? Before interpreting the dream, you must decipher
the language in which it occurred.
5. What was your emotion (i.e., how did
you feel) during the dream? The purpose of dreams is to trigger emotions and
make you feel things.
6. What emotions, information, etc. did
you release in the dream through “venting”?
7. How old are you in the dream?
Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in
Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in 2005. For more information about Calminsense Hypnotherapy®
and to set up an appointment, please
visit http://www.calminsensehypnotherapy.com/.
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