| Show MFMQ ii They're a resource says an expert Here's how to put them to use 1 Ltri ddilL Robert Moss is a best-sellin- (Thin l I msEmhililliill novelist g us more than we already know Once you've began catching your dreams what can you hope to find? Here are a few possibilities: 1) Dreamt can be a road to our creative source Dreams as Freud remarked are "the royal road to the un- cM kcturen For many years he has Zed how the cultures bezels ado:hers incorporated dreams e Anst-riau- s I-th- I I into their lives Today he conducts workshops en the use of dreams in everyday life for groups ranging from MIMS and corporate executives to schoolchildren and visual artists He currently is corvieting a book about dreams Kè asked Moss to share with us same oldie insighz and techniques he has kurned to lop this unique resource r t A I On 1 EartA:Ltst7ouREke eveq Mother scientist des On a typical night mii we'll expenerce bemeen four and seven dream sequences whether or not we remember them These data are derived from the study of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) 1 sleep pioneered by Eugene Aseriesky and Dr Nathaniel Kleitrnan at the University of Miran 40 years ago The KENI phm- - in stith the eyeballs may be moving as if we're svarrhinf a tennis game is associated with suongly visual dream images Given the amount of time we all spend dreaming dreams may be our In modem IMAnadmmaized Western sodety we've tended to disparage dreams as a possille source of in c Olt arid information Yet in most cultures dreams are honored as a source of urre irTerv--rt knowledge than is avaalable to the or--if nry waking mind The anthers of the Upanishads—the Mato sattares to 600 BC earciled from 1000 is a Ith—maintained that er gam of consciousness than waking Among American Lallans and other indirenous peoples the East business of the day is often In share dreams withal the family circle Indivihalc are ea)3Crared to seek their purpose in life and specific gildance in life's passages throe:dr dreams Maybe the burger ET meaning and the sense of emptiness that afflict so many people in our society we elated There are "big" dreams and "little" dreams but nearly all dreams— even the scary ones—come to help us and tell us more than we already know race to tie fact that we are out of touch with our interior lives because we don't mix mom for our dreams rve worked with an active dream cirde for yers and rve learned thatto start harnessing the power of your Br IT pargsziE olikraizahE MMM1M4 I 41011LTAIRT 30 dreams you need only two things: the ability to recall (see sidebar) and the d about willingness to be are dreams whattelling your "lbe kind of dream cEctionaries found in drugs:ars won't tell s hai ycur dean symbols mean to you 'Theories often get in your way especially when they reduce am's—which are tart:layered —to only one level of siçiificzmce I like what Cad lung the founder of analytic psychology said about that vi have no theory about dreams- - I do open-minde- I 119S4 - PINE a throughs come through dreamc This is as striYing in the sciences as the arts night Elias Howe credited his invention of we have between the modem sewing machi3x to a nieiI'm aryl tmut On accepting his Nobel Prize seven declared that his &ems had Bohr Kids dream sequences shown him the structure of the atom rim irl conscious" from which creativity springs People in all fields of endeavor have found that creative break- rt 1E11 nct know how dreams raise On the other hand I kriow that if we meditate on a Haw To Caleb Friedlich realized the mo- ic:rtrlireara ecular structure of benzme was a cbsed carbon Mg Before we can use our dreams we have to catch them Here are a few tips on improving dream recall: Tell melt before sleeping that you are going to remember a dream Be readyr to record your dream with a pen awl retebook—or a tape recorder—close at hand-Arrerge your Ile posside so mill spontaneously you must use an alarm use a buzzer instead of the ratio Dreams fade fast Yoe need to catch them within 10 minutes ofr waking or yea' prchably find the:ere gore Record your dream KVA away Start with any names or Ores lathe dream they elle be °clef! revealing your notes we when be dreamed of a serpent swal- lowing its tall our dreams sometimes alert tO purposes and possibilities beyond the ecro's waking agenda I bad an experience of this had Viten I was sitstin2 On an idea for a thriller with a Rimian theme that would follow the for mula of a previ- cras dream sufficiently long and rd I we it vpilten take thou& "ktreprirt thoroughly—if a dream jourmd the book viould about with us and turn it addrit your feelings and be a commercial over and over—something associations Date each success but I felt almost always comes of it" dream and five ita title' Share your dreams with a the urze to work You are the ultimate an- partner or circle of friends on more original thority on your own drmms Your gut feeling &bat what your &min —and therefore riskier—projects In my dream I walked into a banmeans is your first and best guide There are "big" dreams and "lle" quet hall where the tables were laid for dreams It can be a bit Ile whing a huge gathering But there was trouTV: You get a news report in between ble in the kitchen The mager chef had a soap and a game show interrupted gone on strike became he refused to by ccoamercials But rve observed that work with my menu His message for nearly all dreams—inclueung the scary me was "I don't feel Ile cooking ones—come to help us and they tell " I : HISS best-seri- er II |
