Dream Tending & Analysis
Dreams
Have you been puzzled by strange dreams that don’t make any sense to you? Have you ever wondered what these dreams may mean? Do you have recurrent dreams that appear from time to time for no apparent reason?
Freud said, “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” They reveal much of our unconscious thoughts, emotions, moods, fears, and fantasies without logical clarity. Dreams come in a package of strange codes, and much of their content remains hidden in a riddle. It is worth exploring and examining dreams to recognize their messages, as they often point toward the directions we need to be heading.
Dreams may come from our mundane daily routine (personal level) or from a deep collective unconscious (archetypal level). We often need guidance to understand these levels and the rich symbolism often hidden there.
Dream Tending & Analysis Sessions
Dream Tending & Analysis sessions can be separate from your usual psychotherapy and counseling sessions. You don’t need to bring in your issues or psychological concerns. You simply tell your dream in the present tense from the beginning to the end, or even just a few segments or fragments. I will then ask you questions related to the dream content, and we then discuss and explore the dream in depth. There are three main approaches to understanding dreams:
1. Dream Association: your personal associations, memories, and experiences with the dream objects.
2. Dream Amplification: how your dreams may be related to or have similarities to myths, legends, folklores, and fairy tales.
3. Active imagination: bringing the dreams to the present by letting the dream images animate and speak through our imagination. Giving the voice and movement to the dream images.
