📌 Recommended Book/Series for Learning Dream Interpretation (updated)

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@BlessingsDeers may have some tips for how to strengthen this power tool in your arsenal if you are looking to foster its growth:

Yes, anytime!
There are also some really good videos in the link shared by @NightHawk999

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@py_by_the_bay what are your thoughts on intuition?

good question to start off with!..

thank you Beloved @NightHawk999 for ALL!

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@NightHawk999

our resident Queen of Intuition

this is a high intuitive comment… in my lucid dream yesterday with AH I was in his living room…

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in my lucid dream yesterday with AH I was in his living room…

Can you share the full dream?

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Death: A Jungian Perspective

Death: A Jungian Perspective

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Tip #1 If the dream is not significant, dont fuck with it

(Learn to Discriminate between mental static dreams, and ones of great importance)

Tip #2 Dream Journal religiously, and review it often

Tip #3 Some dreams are meant to be taken Literally, not symbolically

Tip #4 Respect these Noturnal Messages

Tip #5 Emotions and Feelings are extremely important;

(During the dream, upon waking, and upon review days later. Pay very close attention to these!!!)

Tip #6 Dont wake up abruptly take your time

Tip #7 Dream Symbols have Individual meanings, and collective meanings. Best to figure out your own personal dream language first.

Tip #8 Dream Symbols often have multiple meanings, be open to and curious about this

Tip #9 Dreams LOVE word play and PUNs

Tip #10 Tone, Emphasis, and inflection are very important, pay close attention to these when you share your dreams, and listen to others.

Tip #11 People, places, and things can all be symbolic for aspects of ourselves and our Pysches, pay close attention to these Beings

Tip #12 INTUITION is a Magical Power we all posses, but often forget to use!!!

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Tip #13 AsKING and AsQUEEN Questions to yourself about the dream, and to others about theirs dreams is monumentally important!!!

Tip #14 Look for the EUREKA moment when interpreting, often times this is felt somatically as goosebumps, or “Ah Ha” or “BINGO”, deep satisfaction, or ‘tingles’

(You know it when you FEEL it)

Beloved @py_by_the_bay , hope these tips help. I am excited to hear the books and resources you have found helpful on your dream interpretation journey.

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@NightHawk999

Can you share the full dream?

will do so in a private message

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IDENTITY CRISIS: When Our Story Falls Apart

IDENTITY CRISIS: When Our Story Falls Apart

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LOW ENERGY: Where Can We Source the Drive to Take Action?

LOW ENERGY: Where Can We Source the Drive to Take Action?

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From Shamanism to Jung: Understanding ‘Loss of Soul’

From Shamanism to Jung: Understanding 'Loss of Soul'

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“Dreams, the place where the “here and now” meets eternity”:

Analyzing Our Childhood Dreams

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Carl Jung’s Word Association Test

Carl Jung’s Word Association Test

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A highly effective Dream Symbol interpreting tool

[_Barry]

Carl Jung & Buddhism On The Unconscious

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I really like these! Are these your personal guidelines?

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Are these your personal guidelines?

No, I stole them from this book:

Recommended Book/Series for Learning Dream Interpretation (updated)

[image] @py_by_the_bay chapters: 5 & 6 & 7 are really helpful Got this book from the library, hopefully you can find it free at your local library or in their digital archives. First 50 pages are the basics, the 14 tips for dream interpretation in chapter 5 are very helpful chapter 6 gives plenty of dream examples for you to test your skills and gain insight. Chapter 7 continues with more examples

[fenwizard]

Jung derived his ideas about “complexes” at least in part from the word association test. These are partly unconscious and emotionally charged areas of the psyche, such as a negative or positive mother complex, a negative or positive father complex, etc.
Jung would also have patients give an association to a dream image as a way to interpret the dream. But he wouldn’t “free associate” the way Freud did. In Freudian analysis one would associate to the dream symbol, then associate to that association, then associate to that association until you finally arrive at something that Freud thought was the underlying unconscious conflict (usually some conflict from childhood, often of a sexual nature). Jung didn’t completely buy this, broke with Freud and came up with his own methods. Jung believed in staying close to the dream image rather than wandering off into the bushes looking for a sexual conflict based on a pre-existing oedipal theory.
By the way, Jung experimented with using a Galvanic Skin Response meter while giving the word association test, this measures changes in electrical resistance in the skin which can change with the amount of perspiration. Unconscious emotional reactions would register on the Galvanic Skin Response meter. This research contributed to the development of the lie detector test.

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@_Barry. This is one of the best comparisons of Jungian and Buddhist thought that I’ve seen. I’ve also had the tree image come to me as a picture of how we as separate leaves and branches are all connected to One universal consciousness at a deep level.

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@fenwizard

Jung experimented with using a Galvanic Skin Response meter while giving the word association test, this measures changes in electrical resistance in the skin which can change with the amount of perspiration. Unconscious emotional reactions would register on the Galvanic Skin Response meter.

Very interesting

I have found Jungs Association techinque to be like the inkblot test for dream symbols

@fenwizard

In Freudian analysis one would associate to the dream symbol, then associate to that association, then associate to that association until you finally arrive at something that Freud thought was the underlying unconscious conflict (usually some conflict from childhood, often of a sexual nature).

Sounds like a less fun version of the game 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon…

[fenwizard]

I’m not familiar with that game but let’s see. . . I associate Kevin Bacon with bacon and bacon with pigs. . . pigs are dirty. . . sex is dirty! Bingo!

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@fenwizard

This is one of the best comparisons of Jungian and Buddhist thought that I’ve seen.

It comes at it from a non-Buddhist perspective, “objective,” and is such limited, but useful. Reminds me of a lecture about Buddhism I overheard once that was interesting but like (I think) Dr. Mindell would say, “missing the mark just a bit.”

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@fenwizard

Jung derived his ideas about “complexes” at least in part from the word association test. These are partly unconscious and emotionally charged areas of the psyche, such as a negative or positive mother complex, a negative or positive father complex, etc.

Worthy of a repost . . .

Word Association - Saturday Night Live