Dream work has been a huge component of my therapy, I keep a dream journal by my bed and write down every scrap of dream I remember. When I still saw t in person, I typed my dreams up and brought them to sessions, gave her the copy and I read from my journal. Sometimes she would read my dreams, sometimes I would, and then we would discuss them. I email them to her now that we do phone sessions, we still take turns reading them. We've worked with every dream I've remembered for over 3 years now, and I've gotten some really good insights from them!! She also taught me about Active Imagination, where you 'go back into' your dream and interact with it while you're awake. I've done some really good work that way. I think dream work is awesome; I always knew that my dreams MUST be trying to tell me something all my life, I've had such vivid, colorful dreams but until I met t I didn't know how right I was! She often comments on my dream-maker (my psyche, whatever) that it has quite a sense of humor, or it's very profound, stuff like that. I love how our dreams speak the knowledge that we have deep within us - just in a different language. It's fun learning how to understand that language, isn't it?
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