Dreamwork is the manner in which dreams of different significance are recalled and understood, and one must constantly work to recall each aspect of their dream, write it all down, and take steps to examine it. There are regular, mundane dreams all the time, and so-called "Big Dreams" that don't appear to come from our own subconscious and come from somewhere else as though it were a vision. In order to cultivate our metaphysical side, we should use these visions as well as examine our own psychology to find issues we can pay attention to in our lives, and to better fix our problems. For the Major Dreams, we will open up our dreamscape as witches and collect dreams from spirits, or beings for whom we worship/work.
1. Remembering Your Wishes Realize that everyone dreams first. Second, be mindful that the common rule is sleep amnesia. Thirdly, if you don't recall your visions, realize that you will do so with practice. To recall your wishes, set a definite goal. Get into the habit of dreaming about your dreams when you fall asleep and as you wake up in the morning, first of all. Say to yourself every night, "Tonight I will sleep and in the morning I will recall my dream." Do not move until you wake up. Just lay there, eyes closed, and try to recall your dream. If you can't, then, before you recall your dream, think of the last thing that you were dreaming, and the thing before that. Other pieces will come back to you when you recall part of your dream. This is improved by a dream diary which is where step two comes in.
2. Your Dreaming Documenting Choose a special diary. Keep two collections of dream journals if you like, one for the job in progress, and one for a more finished edition. Hold the notebook next to your bed with a pen, so you don't have to do around to get it back after waking up. Often, keep a book light or an illuminated pen by your bunk, so you don't have to get up to turn the light on. An option is to use a handheld voice recorder, too. Write down what you remember, however fragmentary it may be. Record as many specifics as you can. Remember to define the environment, in addition to the characters and the action. Make any objects note. Numbers, colors, and shapes of notes. Take mention of the dream's thoughts, mood, or the general environment as well.
It might be helpful to assign names or titles to your dreams, to help you remember them later.
3. Association and Amplification This is before interpretation, a step. Go back to what you have written after you have recorded the dream in as much depth as possible and see what other comparisons the dream pictures spontaneously elicit. The connection mechanism is itself a way to communicate with the unconscious. Record all partnerships; don't discriminate. But please remember the comparisons that sound more important. Relevant correlations are those that "click" or that (positive or negative) are filled with emotional "energy". Return to the picture from the dream after each connection. Do not create partnerships in a chain dependent on connections. By comparing it to images from works of art, literature, or ancient mythology, the sense of the dream may even be 'amplified'. Amplification, although on a group basis, is like a partnership. In order to extend the conceptual meaning of the dream, amplification is expected. It can serve as validation of associations that you have already created, or it can lead to new associations for you. But you should note that it is your imagination, and you should not regard encyclopedias of mythology as dictionaries for interpreting your visions. Instead, you can take care of those comparisons that sound more important to you from myth and art, those that "lock" or are filled with emotional energy.
4. Interpretation, First of all, realize that no interpretation is right or correct. Rather than dissecting something, understanding a dream can be more like sharing a chat with another. Naturally, meanings should come from the dialogue with the dream image, not from placing a context from without on the image. Be modest before the pictures of fantasy. Only listen to them. Tell yourself, 'What are you seeking for this picture to tell me?' Try to utter those words aloud. Patiently be. Instead of appearing like a light, the response can extend over time. Learn to accept the enigmatic essence of the marks, even grow them. As you go, write down your developmental understanding. Second, beware of your ego's flattering interpretations, moving blame away from yourself, or demanding no change from you. It can help you escape this trap by sharing the dream with a therapist or a trustworthy friend who is able to provide a vital voice. Choose an understanding that shows something you didn't know before. It's cool to think that your dream is supposed to test you.
Third, the elements in the dream may represent individuals or objects in your life, but they represent facets of yourself or the ideals of your inner life more frequently. And if a figure in your dream corresponds to someone in your waking life, consider the probability that a part of your own psyche also reflects the dream person. A dream in which my father talks to me, for instance, maybe a dream about my real father, but it is most likely about the judgmental aspect of me, if, for instance, my father was judgmental. It might be useful to assign the figure in your dream a title or a personal name. It is important to associate any dream picture with a part of your inner self. Question yourself, "What part of me is that?" A picture can correlate, like a feeling or a mood, to an inner personality (complex), an inner "location", or an inner case. Jung thought that animals always reflected the most primitive or instinctual aspects of ourselves in our dreams. When relating dream images to pieces of yourself, try to be as precise as possible. Identifying dream pictures with Jungian archetypes, such as Anima or the Great Grandma, is not enough. Tell yourself what the archetype of your everyday life is doing. Finally, pick the meaning for your self-understanding and for your life that has the most importance or significance. Dreams reflect either the psyche's attempt to merge with our consciousness some aspect of our unconscious or else the consciousness's opposition to this incorporation.
5. Incarnation The Incarnation with perception or insight, the mechanism does not end. It is important to transform the meaning of the dream into waking life, expressed or understood. This can be achieved literally, as with a change of behavior or in how you work with other persons. Yet it can be achieved symbolically as well. For example, by depicting or painting the dream, or working its symbols into clay or other media, a dream can be articulated artistically. It can be achieved by ritual, too. It's better than you do something physical with your body, whatever you do, so you can sense the dream inside your muscles and your bones. Rituals should not be big, elaborate affairs. Ritual is any symbolic act which, often accompanied by a sense of respect, is done with increased consciousness. In the majority of cases, simple routines are safest. If there's nothing you can think about, then light a candle. Active creativity can also be used to improve the dreamwork. An active imagination is like lucid dreaming (a dream in which you know you are dreaming), but you are awake in the case of active imagination. You let the memories emerge and turn on their own, unlike directed meditation. But you deliberately engage the images, even conversation with them, unlike mere imagination, as if they had an independent life. By summoning up the idea of a human or other things from a recent dream to dialogue with, active imagination may be used to boost dreamwork.
**Authors Note:
Unless you work on becoming a Jungian analyst or are evaluating yourself, with any dream you actually won't have the time to go through this whole process every day. Some visions hold more meaning than most. These dreams appear different from most dreams in qualitative terms. These were named "big visions" by Jung. "Big dreams" are followed by a sense of "numinosity," a concept that indicates a profound emotional resonance sensation usually accompanied by a feeling of "otherness." "Big dreams" thus feel like texts from outside of us from everywhere. We could argue that "big dreams" are not dreams; they are dreams of us.
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