Basic Course for Understanding Dreams
1**Write down or rewrite your dream as fully as possible. List the key symbols which have positive or negative energy 2**List the key actions in the dream by you as dream ego or taken by other figures. How do the actions relate to each other? 3**List what you in the dream (dream ego) are doing and not doing in the dream. How are you relating or not relating? 4** List any sequences in the dream, a beginning, a middle and an end. What are the developing themes?
5**Again look at your dream ego. List what you could have done in the dream but didn't. Give possible reasons or feelings. 6**List actions and themes in the dream that are not resolved. Indicate reasons for this. 7**Rewrite your dream making clear its structure, themes and what is needed to make the dream whole. 8**Make a list of what you are doing and not doing in your dream. List feelings you may be having.
9**Look at your dream ego list and describe how you are relating or not relating to other characters and elements. 10**List the attitudes motivating your list of behaviors in the dream. An attitude is a rule we choose by. 11**List what you would like to have done differently in your dream and why. 12**What change of attitudes would you make to act effectively and in tune with the dream as a whole?
13**What attitudes or values would you keep in the dream and why? 14**List the possible places for choice and what choices were made or not made and why? 15**What are the crises points in the dream? What more is needed? List these. 16**What are the one or two key actions taken or not taken by you but needed for the dream itself?
17**For each of the characters in the dream, what attitude might each represent? List. 18**What are the key actions in the dream? Evaluate whether they contribute to the whole or not? 19**List the issues and themes in the dream and relate these to issues and themes in life. 20**List how your dream ego is the same or different from your waking life ego.
21**Write too: Why did I have to have this dream now? Let the response flow. 22** List the dream and life insights from your flow response as to why you had to have your dream at this time. 23**Summarize the key elements, themes, issues, meanings in your dream as developed out of your previous work. 24**List life issues and themes related to your dream. List new ways of resolving life issues based on the dreamwork.
25**What is your dream ego's point of view in the dream? What is your new point of view about the dream after doing dreamwork? 26**In preparing for new dreaming list what you would like to do differently, and why, in future dreams with similar themes. 27**In relating to new life situations list what you need to be aware of and how to act in a fulfilling way. 28**Re-read all your dreamwork here, summarize, also describe the methods used.
Teach yourself to find wisdom in your dreams by practicing dreamworking techniques. Each coursework outline is based upon methods from Strephon's books. Please write your results in our Consciousness Forum.


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