New addition, but familiar territory.

[Fraggin]

Hi, Fraggin here, I will be hanging out here for the foreseeable future. For the sake of a cheesy intro, peep my profile if you want to know more 'about' me. If you want to know me more, pm me. Look forward to helping and being helped.

[wannabelucid]

welcome to the forum man

[nina]

Hey guys...welcome to the forum both of you!! Feel free to ask whatever questions you may have. Nice to have you here. -nina

[irishcream]

Hi, welcome aboard. hope you can stick around!

[Fraggin]

Do you guys have a dream dictionary on board?

[irishcream]

you know, i don't think we do...there's an idea...

[Fraggin]

I know this would be for the feedback forum, but a list of commonly encountered dream items and what they mean to each user would be beneficial as well as a psycolgy type term or definition of what each item woud mean.

[nina]

I'm not big on dream dictionaries really...I hardly ever agree with them. And besides that is what the Dream Interpretation forum is for. I think people should be able to interpret their own dreams because only they really know what is going on in their lives to cause such things. And if they need a little help there is the interpretation forum...but as far as dream dictionaries go I don't think I'd want to see one here really. Nice suggestion though.

[Kaniaz]

Well, at the risk of sounding redundant, ditto Aquanina.

[Fraggin]

What purpose does a dream interpretation forum serve if the dreamer is the only person who can interpret their dreams? If people within the interpretation forum, (like I have read so far) attempt at interpretation of a dream for someone, are they not merely serving as a dictionary? I have read a book by Robert L. Van De Castle Phd who has put more than 20 years of his life into researching dreams as well as traveling to different regieons of the world to discuss and study dreams within other cultures. Even he agrees that items percieved in a dream generally have a common meanind that is dependant on the dreamers culture and background. There is some validity to shared meaning of dream items. If there were not, then how could the Dream interpretation forum exist without being a constantly debateable issue?

[Fraggin]

I have searched though the forums (kind of difficult) here and have not found any guidelines on true dreamwork interpretation generally encouraged through psychotherapy. To alleviate redundancy, does anyone know what I am referring to?

[irishcream]

Originally posted by Fraggin I have searched though the forums (kind of difficult) here and have not found any guidelines on true dreamwork interpretation generally encouraged through psychotherapy. To alleviate redundancy, does anyone know what I am referring to? are you meaning in terms of people like Freud and Jung, and what basis dream interpretation and symbols serve to psychology? There's a great Hitchcock film called 'Spellbound' starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory peck, which looks at how dreams can be used in psychoanalysis, as a form of coming to terms with the past. Or at least, that's how i interpreted the film. There's been talk on here of Freud and Jung, but no real research into dreamsymbols and psychology has been carried out by DV members that i know of. Hope this helps.

[Mystical_Journey]

I think it would be really cool to look into psychoanalysis and dreams - look at the basis of personal interpretation of dreams in relation to Archetypes and the Collective Subconsious. I always find stuff like this really fascinating - esp the work of Carl Jung - i looked into alot of his stuff when i was a student. we should become more aware of what Fraggin and Irishcream were saying - its very true. We all have an underlying culture that is represented in our dreams therefore interpretation has some basis in our cultural fabric. Its like the idea of representation and symbols having meaning - the sign and signifier thingy. i will make sure i watch 'Spellbound' - Hitchcock is a great director.

[Kaniaz]

I have searched though the forums (kind of difficult) here and have not found any guidelines on true dreamwork interpretation generally encouraged through psychotherapy. To alleviate redundancy blah blah oh look i have a thesaurus [/b] Hi. Care to translate for us people of planet Earth?

[Fraggin]

There is a nice guideline on how to do this in a book called "Healing the shame that binds you". It is a very popular process amongst psychotherpists called "Dream work" In a sense it is brainstorming. You record ever detail of your dream and take the aspects of the dream that stick out such as. "Riding in a sports car that keeps passing people selling newspapers on the side of the road" You jot down each important aspect of the dream and around that word you write all the possibilities that could be that aspect. You do this for each important detail of the dream then create a kind of collage of the words that you have and decipher any logical messages you may find. It is hard to describe without a physical representation.

[nina]

Well I guess there are resources out there if you want them...and there are quite a few members here who are familiar with psychoanalysis of dreams and contribute what they know to the dream interpretation and other forums. It is great when members come in and bring their knowledge of what they have learned from the outside into Dream Views. I just don't see a need for this full on Dream Dictionary to be here, not only would it be enormous but WHO would write it?? That's alot of work you are talking about without taking from other people and infringing on their copyrights. An especially since DV's members come from such diverse backrounds and such it would be hard to generalize.

[Fraggin]

Originally posted by irishcream are you meaning in terms of people like Freud and Jung, and what basis dream interpretation and symbols serve to psychology? There's a great Hitchcock film called 'Spellbound' starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory peck, which looks at how dreams can be used in psychoanalysis, as a form of coming to terms with the past. Or at least, that's how i interpreted the film. There's been talk on here of Freud and Jung, but no real research into dreamsymbols and psychology has been carried out by DV members that i know of. Hope this helps. Freud has some interesting ideas, but the only ones that I follow are those that, to me, are basic common sense.