Dream Analysis: 3 Tips to Help Your Clients

When we understand why we dream, we can discern what might be troubling our clients and causing them to over-dream. In this video I share the latest understanding on why we dream, from Joe Griffin, and the consequences of over-dreaming.

I explain why 'dream dictionaries' aren't helpful, and I give 3 tools you can use instead to help figure out what's bothering your client's unconscious mind.

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Video highlights
00:00 Introduction
00:25 A recurring nightmare
02:01 Dream analysis: a beginner's guide
02:20 Why do we dream?
04:00 The effect of over-dreaming
04:55 3 Ways to help a client understand their dreams
05:05 Tip 1. Throw away the dream dictionary
06:19 Tip 2. Look at the feelings of the dream
09:18 Tip 3. Seek to complete the emotional loop
11:04 How I helped Jill take control of her dreaming

[nickjsky]

Many decades ago, I had a dream in which I did something terrible and people were angry with me. Upon awaking, I was perplexed by the dream because I had done nothing terrible like it in reality. But when I discarded the specifics of the dream and examined just the feelings in the dream, I discovered a matching event. The previous day I had started playing a Star Wars computer game named "TIE Fighter" in which I played the role of a bad guy blowing up good guy spaceships. And even though the game was fun, I still had a subtle feeling of guilt at doing fictional bad deeds which was magnified in the dream.

[bigol]

Amazing. Incredible. Dreams have long been a deep fascination of mine. Thank you Mark

[edwinguerracastrejon]

What are your thoughts on lucidity during sleep?

[amysinger]

Thank you so much for this video! Do you have any advice or insight about how to work with ptsd nightmares? I have found the technique in the video helpful for a lot of dream content (finding the unprocessed anxiety), but I still get stuck with ptsd nightmares.