I worked with a dream yesterday that illustrates a really common mistake/difficulty people have with dream practice,
So this seems like a good opportunity to show an example in the wild:
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To start with a condensed version of what I wrote immediately on waking in my dream journal:
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“I’m with some people from my town, we’re hiding in the tunnels from something horrific. Huge, glowing beasts. Massive claws. One little girl was partly scratched, and she turned into sth wide-eyed and fae. She was uncanny, unheimlich, sth *wrong* about her now.
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We hunker underground, silent, praying to stay hidden. The final image I remember is of a glowing yellow limb ghosting through the wall of the cave. The beasts can move through earth and soil like it’s nothing. The claws are extended, it’s forelimb is right there”
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Pausing there, I want to drop in a question.
People around here are generally into or at least familiar with IFS, parts work, sub personalities, etc.
So when you dream: which *part* is doing the dreaming?
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Waking up, I had definite sinister vibes coming off the dream. I’d felt under attack, the glowing beasts had felt very sinister, the girl who’d gotten faed felt unheimlich as fuck, very horror movie.
My attitude going into the dream work was “find out what’s hunting me & why”
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So I dropped into meditation, returned to the dream, and set up a space inside the dream:
down in the cave where I’d been hiding, I set up two spheres—one to protect me, and one to contain the beast. Then I unpaused time, and brought the beast through the wall, into the sphere.
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whoa okay this bit - how did you return to the dream???
Exactly this lol.
It’s so automatic for me now I barely notice it, so I’m trying to remember how I did it starting out.
I think I just did modified Jungian Active Imagination.
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