How is a dream interpreted?
Working on a single dream can take up to an hour.
The dreamer reads the dream aloud to the group. Questions of clarification from members of the group help everyone understand the dream scenario.
Then members of the group offer personal projections. “If this was my dream …” This is never an interpretation of the dream, just immediate responses to it.
After each person has contributed, the dreamer tells the group where he or she is with this dream: ideas, questions, worries, wild suppositions. This is the moment in which the dreamer might share some of the context. For example, “My daughter left home for six weeks in India the night before I had this dream.”
When the dreamer is finished with his/her reflections, he/she invites a dialogue. All members of the group participate in a discussion of the dream’s images and scenarios, trying to puzzle out meaning together.
The final response to the experience is the dreamer’s.
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