Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams

Start by marking “Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams (P)” as Want to Read: Eugene T. Gendlin is an American philosopher and psychotherapist who developed ways of thinking about and working with living process, the bodily felt sense and the 'philosophy of the implicit'.
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How would you walk on stage? With a stomp, or stiffly, or how? How would you stand or sit? How would your shoulders be? Let your body do it of its own accord.


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What comes to you to say or to do? Don't make it up. Wait and see what words or moves come from the body-feel. See if you can take that with you. If you think of that character's image again, does the quality come again in your body? These questions can be applied to any thing in a dream, not only to people. As in Charades, one can say, "Be that wall" or any object from the dream. Wait and sense what comes in your body. For example, you are playing the wall. Suddenly it comes to you to stretch out your arm with a stiff blocking motion, and you say, "Halt!

You can also act your own usual way of being, as you were in the dream. Exaggerate it, see what it is when you let it be even more so. Vividly visualize the end, or any one important scene of the dream. When it comes back as fully as possible, just watch it and wait for something further to happen. What impulse do you have, if any, to do something back at the image once it has done something of its own accord?

One of the three is often enough. You would not usually need all three at once. You can use the other two later, if you need them. Questions 7, 8, and 9, can be remembered as three ways to work further with the characters. Some people think there are common symbols. Try this out, and see if it opens something in this dream. I got on a train and when it was already going fast, 1 realized I didn't have my baggage. I had left it on the platform. You are just beginning to move or change in some way so that you don't control the vehicle once it starts.

Now you realize you are leaving your usual stuff behind. Does that fit anything going on in your life? What would you say is losing one's baggage? For example, you answer: I need my clothes to make a proper appearance. Now substitute that into the dream: You are moving in some way and you have lost your usual proper appearance?

Does that fit anything? Anything "symbolizes" or "stands for" the use, function, or usual meaning of that thing. Substitute that into the dream. See if the dream makes sense when seen or thought of in that way. Something in a dream may be an analogy for the body.

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For example, a long object may be a penis, a purse may stand for a vagina. The car may be your sexual activity. A house may be your body.

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The attic or other high place can mean thought, being in your head, far from feelings. A wall which isn't really there ran the whole length of my apartment, dividing it in two long halves. If the dream went out of its way to change the situation in just certain respects, ask: Why would it make just these changes? Does the dream picture something different in value, opposite from how you evaluate it in waking life?

Does someone you think of as stupid appear unusually large and impressive in the dream? Is someone pictured small, silly, or disheveled whom you in fact admire? Is something you consider worthless represented as hauntingly beautiful? See if the dream "corrects" your waking attitude. If so, try out a more moderate attitude in between. In the dream, my father came to visit, but he was huge. Linda and I just came up to his boots.

Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams

And our house was tiny. Let me be quiet and see if anything comes to me. Questions 10, 11, 12, are three decodings: Symbols, Body Analogy, and Counterfactual. Are there dimensions of being human in the dream that you don't take much account of in your life? This huge mansion was full of gold and antiques. I was a thief. I went in and stole the sheets from under the bedspreads. The bedspreads were gold. I left them slightly rumpled. Well, what might come if you try saying: I've mostly used everything for work and needs.

Does something in me want my life to be more than that?


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Don't try to use all these questions on one dream. There are too many. Nor need you do everything you can with one question.

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The list is a storehouse of possible moves to make with a dream. When nothing works, the list enables you to keep going. Each question lets you generate many specific ones. They can be applied to any part of a dream. You can work with any scene, person, or thing in the dream. Different phrasings have different effects. When a question doesn't bring up anything, saying it differently can help.

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You can generate various versions of each question. Normally you will get the breakthrough and take a further step, long before you use the whole list. Gendlin derived 16 questions from the many existing theories to aid you, the dreamer, in the process of interpretation. In this book, Dr. Gendlin teaches you to ask the questions so that your body can respond.

You learn to recognize how it feels when a question is about to lead to a breakthrough. You learn to let the question complete itself so that the dream opens and you know without doubt what it is about. The first stage is learning what the dream is about. But this alone may not tell you anything you did not know before.

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But this alone may not tell you anything you did not know before. The second stage is getting something new from the dream for your own development. The method developed by Dr. Gendlin solves what was, until now, an insurmountable problem: People could not interpret their own dreams because they always imposed their usual biases on them.

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Gendlin shows you how to open yourself to a new step. Paperback , pages. Published April 1st by Chiron Publications first published June To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Jun 16, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: I could tell this book was going to change my life. Gendlin doesn't hide behind language or concepts to try to mystify and complicate something that happens everyday.

Not that working with dreams is not complex and does not require great attention and openness. But this book is to point out that if all you really need is attention and openness--well, ANY of us can begin to understand and change our lives through thinking about our dreams. I can't recommend this book enough. Sep 24, Marie Judson-Rosier rated it it was amazing. Dpg rated it it was amazing Aug 06, Dawn Flynn rated it it was amazing Oct 12, Jul 02, Alan added it.

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