Interviewing Your Dream Characters

When you interview a dream group member you are imagining that you are a particular dream character. If the knight in this picture were to wake up and do an IDL interview on his dream, he would have many choices as to who to interview. He could interview himself, the other fighters, the horse, his wooden sword, his garbage lid shield,the spears, or even the feathers on the helmets.  Characters may be singular (“Mom”) or plural (a group of women, clouds, pictures, etc.). They may be entities (people, extraterrestrials, spirits, walruses, body parts), places (houses, cars, parks, outer space), and things (credit cards, toothbrushes, clouds, novels, water.) Just about anything can be a dream character, but Dream Yoga puts feelings (happy, sad, confused, guilty, angry, fearful, etc.) and actions (thoughts, riding, driving, surfing, climbing, coughing, etc.) in other categories.

We do not make ontological assumptions about who or what a dream character may be, other than to say that whatever else it may be, it arises out of our own consciousness. In other words, we start with an assumption that a dream character is a self-aspect, whatever else it may be. For instance, if you dream of your recently deceased uncle Ned, you may in fact be having a literal encounter with the old chap. But we do not start by making this assumption, no longer how confident we are that it is correct. We simply identify with Ned, as we would with any other dream group member, and see what he has to say. Let’s let Ned tell us whether he is a disincarnate visiting us from the other side, or whether he is an aspect of ourselves, or both.