Living Your Dreams

Incubating your dreams:

1. Choose the right night. Not overly tired, free of drugs.
2. Before going to sleep, record your day notes, but you did and felt during the day.
3. Direct your attention to areas that have previously been Insufficiently illuminated.
1. What are the causes of the problem?
2. Alternative solutions.
3. Feelings.
4. Benefits you might be receiving from perpetuating this conflict.
5. Living with problem safer than resolving it.
6. What would you give up if the problems were resolved?
4. On the next line of your Journal, write down a one-line question or request that expresses your deepest and clearest desire to understand the dynamics of your predicament.
5. Close your eyes, and focus all your attention on the question.
6. Sleep.
7. Record in detail all your dream's details.

Interviewing the dream:

1. When you re-experience the feelings you had in the dream, do they remind you of anything in your current life?
2. Describe the opening setting of the dream.
3. Does the setting remind you of anything?
4. Who are the characters in your dream? What do they mean to you?
5. What are the characters like?
6. What are the charecters doing?
7. Do the characters remind you of anything or anyone in your life?
8. Is there some part of you that is like one of the characters?
9. What are the major objects in your dream? Their function and internal workings.
10. What are the objects like?
11. Does any of the objects in the dream remind you of anything, any part of the dreamer, or anyone in your life? How?
12. Discuss the major actions or events in the dream and ask if they remind the dreamer of any situations in waking life. 

Source: Living Your Dreams (1996) by Gayle M. Delaney, Ph. D.