Interviewing Dream Characters

Who is most likely to know the meaning of your dreams? Did the person who wrote your favorite book about dream symbols have your dream? Did other people in dream interpretation groups have your dream? Did any psychic you might consult have your dream?

While all of these sources can offer interesting interpretations, they can’t compare in value with the perspectives of those parts of yourself that appear in your dream. This is because the characters that appear in your dream are personally invested in it, because it is theirs as much as it is yours. They are not only parts of you, since your consciousness created the dream, but because they are invested in the dream, are they not more likely to both care and understand in ways other people cannot?

This is the theory or hypothesis that Integral Deep Listening uses to interview the characters that appear in your dreams. It asks you to suspend your assumptions about what is real or true, including your own interpretations of the dream, in favor of simply becoming this or that character and answering a series of carefully constructed questions that are designed to do much more than provide you with a personally satisfying understanding of why you had the dream in the first place. Prepare to be astonished at the wisdom, acceptance, and autonomy you are about to experience within yourself!  To  learn more about approaches to dreamwork, see Transformational Dreamwork.