Your dreams use your past, present and future
as the locations for your movie. You are the star, the hero and
anti-hero, the lover, and the torturer. You are the casting agent, the
producer and the director. The final cuts are yours. You add the music
and finally the subtitles so that you can make sense of it in your
waking life.
Dr. Raymond’s recent dream: As I wait for a friend I see a car in front of me with the actress Judi Dench and the actor James Garner in the back seat doing a love scene. As I watch they melt into one another in a kiss.
This tiny fragment of a dream helped me get back in touch with a part of me I had pushed away. Judi Dench represents the British part of me, and James Garner the American part of me. For many years I had kept them separate so I wouldn’t feel the pain of loss of my British professional identify. The dream came at a time when I needed to reclaim the skills and experience I had developed in Britain and use it in my new professional career. The dream created an integrated image of me that allowed all parts of myself to work in harmony. It showed me my future, it enabled me to balance my past and present, and comforted me in my pain.
YOUR DREAMS CAN ALSO BE YOUR FRIENDS, MIRRORS, ALERTERS, TEACHERS, COMFORTERS, BALANCERS AND GUIDERS.
Dreams allow you to express parts of yourself that may be hard for you to do otherwise. It is your own special language that you use to communicate with those aspects of yourself that you don’t usually have access to. Call 310.985.249
What messages are your dreams trying to give you?
EXPLORE YOUR DREAMS WITH DR. RAYMOND AND LET THEM
- help you rehearse for interactions that may be very problematic
- give you permission to take on challenges with more confidence
- show you where you are stuck when words and talking alone have failed
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Dreams often reveal hidden rage. Learn to manage anger proftibaly.
TIPS ON WORKING WITH DREAMS
- Write or audiotape the dream as if you are experiencing it as you speak, as soon as possible after you awake
- Even tiny fragments are useful
- Draw any visual images, signs and symbols that appear in the dream
- Note colors, shapes, smells, textures, noises, clothing, weather, places.
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