By David Eagleman, Don Vaughn — 2020
Whenever we learn something new, pick up a new skill, or modify our habits, the physical structure of our brain changes.
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Are you having unusually realistic dreams? Here’s what science can tell you.
"We have shown that seventy-five to one hundred dreams from a person give us a very good psychological portrait of that individual.
In classical dream interpretation, attempts were made to arrive at dream meanings with all sorts of means (for this a plethora of dream books are available -- just have a look at the appropriate shelf in your local bookstore) and almost just as many approaches and methods.
In this new approach the presenter has discovered that dreamers who truly work with their dreams cannot feel safe in their confrontation with what the dream is saying about them.
Dreamwork is applied to the dream for additional experiences of related meaning based on re-experiencing dream content in new ways using the Jungian-Senoi or other methodologies. If you have a methodology, you don’t need a dogma.
Most psychologists have had clients work with their dreams in therapy-but all too often this work has to be initiated by the client. Indeed, most psychologists receive no special training with regard to dreams so they do not work as effectively as they could with dreams.
Because I value the dream and its dreamwork as superior guidance in the Journey Through Life I pledge the following.
Dreamwork is a broad term used to describe the exploration and incorporation of dreams in psychotherapy. Modern dreamwork models hold true to the tenet that any meaning one can pull from a dream should be personal to the dreamer.
The question of whether “anyone else” has “been having” strange dreams (“lately”) is perennially popular online. It is a spooky yet comforting query.
Dreams are stories and images that our minds create while we sleep. They can be entertaining, fun, romantic, disturbing, frightening, and sometimes bizarre.