A new division / classification / categorization / codification
/ systematization / conceptualization of dreams!
A new way to chop / split / slice / dissect / divide / the
dreams!
Hundreds after hundreds of ways to kill / weaken / impoverish
/ interpret the dreams!
All these ways leading to blind alleys, to more and more split,
devitalized truths about dreams!
Goethe's Faust:
How
strange a man's not quitted of all hope,
Who
on and on to shallow stuff adheres,
Whose
greedy hands for hidden treasure grope,
And
who is glad when any worm appears!
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The quest for solving the riddle of dreams continues through the unending flow of dream interpretations, leading us; the dreamers, more and more away from the real vivacity of dreams, leaving behind only variations of interpretations; those lifeless shadows of dreams.
Dreams dwell on the opposite side of the mental universe.
The don't come to us. We must go to them.
But how?
Some lucky ones arrive to dreamland through spontaneous
intuitive or religious experiences. But this way does not work for public at
large. What do we have to offer to them, who can so easily be led astray by dream authorities,
interpretations, divisions, classifications?
We can divide dream techniques and theories into two main
directions.
The majority of them try to define dreams in advance, to catch
them into an in advance compartmentalized mesh of some dream theory. The more
we think we know what dreams are, the more we find only things we anticipate to
meet. The deepest core of dreams are beyond any anticipations.
Only a very small minority of dream theories understand the essence of dreams being beyond any theories. They do not try to
define what dreams are, but try to keep open the gateway to dreams as open as
possible, without blocking it with any preconceived ideas. They are more
interested to define the structure of the way to dreams than dreams themselves.
They create practical techniques which aim to protect dreams against any preconceived
opinions about them, trying to create a way which could lead the dream
explorers so near to dreams that they at last could arrive within earshot, in
order to hear what dreams themselves
have to say.
This is the way of unlearning.
The most advanced example of the latter kind of dream
techniques is Montague Ullman's experiential dream group process, where we have
an opportunity to meet dreams here and now, devoid of everything
we have possibly learned about dreams. It is the same way along which creative arts
and religions have travelled through thousands and thousands of years.
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