Torching Bodies: The Transformational Power of Nightmares
Nightmares are best viewed as wake-up calls that are powerful tools for moving you into greater lucidity, both awake and dreaming. Here is one example.
Dream
An example of working with a “day residue” dream.
Day residue dreams can teach us a lot even if we are sure we know what they mean, if we suspend our assumptions and listen to what characters in them have to say.
How the Drama Triangle in Your Dreams Affects Your Health
(From Dillard, J. Escaping the Drama Triangle in the Three Realms: Waking, Thinking and Dreaming.) You probably work hard during the day to eat right, exercise, maintain a positive attitude, treat others with respect, not react, and generally be a good person. You can go to workshops and therapy, go to bed feeling good and still … Read more
Locked Out in the Cold, Nude!
Rather than dismissing nightmares as “day residue” or some sort of “psychic indigestion, Integral Deep Listening (IDL) demonstrates that they act as “wake up calls” that when listened to, are transformational.
Are Dreams Symbolic?
Following ancient historical precedent, Freud saw dream images as symbols that require interpretation. A symbol, by definition, stands for something else. Symbols, therefore, are projections of waking assumptions.
Dreaming
Who Interprets Your Dreams? Are Dreams Symbolic?
Who Interprets Your Dreams?
Integral Deep Listening assumes that just as beings from other dimensions did not create your night-time dreams, that you can learn to dream your own life instead of living out the cultural script that you internalized and called your own. You do so by seeking the interpretations of your own inner compass, represented by the perspectives of interviewed emerging potentials that are personifications of your dream characters and the life issues that are most important to you.
A Nightmare Says: “Love is Not All You Need.”
“You need to grow in your definition of love. It has to include boundaries, because otherwise your love is misunderstood as weakness and an invitation for abuse.”
Interviewing Hitler
Claim all of who you are, good, bad, and ugly. Trust that the universe is big enough to accept and use all of you. That when you get “wake up calls” from your dreams or through IDL interviews, you not only awaken your strengths and potentials, but those parts of yourself that you fear and that you need to face to become whole.
Making Sense of Nightmares
Nobody likes nightmares. And it would seem that with spiritual development and years of meditation that they would go away, right? Wrong.
