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Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams
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Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID)–as applied to relationship issues.
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Resumo: The purpose of this study was to develop a dreamwork model that would help individuals deal with relationship issues. 70 dreams, involving 7 major relationships, were selected from a woman participant’s dreams. A dream interpretation model, the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID) was developed. Well-founded concepts in the PMID are: 1) dreams reflect emotions; and, 2) pre-dream thoughts, current circumstances, and personal definitions build dream meanings. The newest dreamwork concept of the PMID is the systemic perspective that relationship issues are best understood by discovering how relationship experiences influence our thoughts, emotions and behavior in other relationships. With a dreamwork systemic approach, the individual gathers together and studies series of dreams about major relationships in his or her life, primarily the family. Results of the thesis study show that the participant’s use of the model was a factor in reducing stressful relationship issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)
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The purpose of this study was to develop a dreamwork model that would help individuals deal with relationship issues. Seventy dreams, involving seven major relationships, were selected from the woman participant’s dreams. A dream interpretation model, the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID) was developed. Well-founded concepts in the PMID are: 1) dreams reflect emotions; and, 2) pre-dream thoughts, current circumstances, and personal definitions build dream meanings. The newest dreamwork concept of the PMID is the systemic perspective that relationship issues are best understood by discovering how relationship experiences influence our thoughts, emotions and behavior in other relationships. With a dreamwork systemic approach, the individual gathers together and studies series of dreams about major relationships in his or her life, primarily the family. Results of the thesis study show that the participant’s use of the model was a factor in reducing stressful relationship issues.
When I began this study I expected that dream content, correctly understood, would accurately reflect changes in emotion over time. I also expected that the use of dream interpretations would reflect suggestions for understanding and reducing relationship issues. However, I did not anticipate the extent of interconnected influences found from one relationship to another, the systemic effects.
Family systems models have emerged based on the concept that “individual behavior is better understood when viewed within the dynamic context of one’s family relationships” (Brown & Lent, 1992, p. 261). Yet, there may be few, if any, dreamwork case studies on record that facilitate an individual’s dealing with the web of interconnected relationships in the individual’s life. Since dreaming is common, dreamwork may be the most universal self-facilitated technique available.
A dreamwork systems approach for utilizing dreams to resolve relationship issues is mindful of recent family systemic models, except instead of having the family together in a counseling session an individual gathers together and studies his/her dreams about various major relationships, primarily the family.
Support for the Qualitative Case Study Approach
The research design is a qualitative descriptive approach. An in-depth case study demonstrated the utility of this approach. Case studies, especially qualitative case studies, have been prevalent throughout the field of education for over thirty years (Merriam, 1998). Goldman (1992) holds that qualitative studies help participants be aware of and understand themselves; usually integrate several components of a situation; tend to operate within a developmental framework; are conducive to intimate counselor-client relationships; and, are flexible and adaptable to varied populations.
Support for Dreamwork as Helpful in Undergoing Personal Change
Dreams are perhaps best known for their usefulness in helping us understand ourselves and solve emotional and interpersonal problems (Delaney, 1993). Dreams reveal old memories and connect them to recent experiences (Hartmann, 1999). Probably the best way to undergo remarkable personal change is to work with your own dreams (Mahrer, 1989). Working with our dreams helps us become involved in our own personality growth (Savary, 1990).
Support for Utilizing a Systemic Dreamwork Approach to Understand and Reduce Relationship Issues
Dreamwork approaches to personal relationship issues can be immensely helpful since dreams reflect emotional concerns and since the majority of our emotional concerns are with personal relationships (Faraday, 1974). Many studies have been conducted about the dream’s accuracy in reflecting the dreamer’s emotions, and changes in emotions (Jung, 1966; J. A. Hall, 1977; Wolman & Ullman, 1986; Ullman, 1990; Kramer, 1993). Our dreams confront us with the current order and disorder in our relationships with others and also reflect origins of relationship issues in earlier experience ( Wolman & Ullman, 1986 ). The dreaming mind makes suggestions for resolving problems (Jung, 1960; Wolff, 1972; Greenberg & Pearlman, 1993; Van de Castle, 1994; Hill, 1996). Dreams reflect repeated patterns of interaction with major relationships in people’s lives and shed light on oneself and one’s culture (Bynum, 1993). So dreams can help us understand the complexity of various relationships such as with marriage, friends, family and situations at work and elsewhere ( J. A. Hall, 1977 ).
Recent family systems therapists (Becvar & Becvar, 1982; Bowen, 1985; Brown & Lent, 1992 ; Bynum, 1993 ; Allen, 1994) have demonstrated the effectiveness of a systemic method for alleviating relationship issues. So, it seems beneficial to incorporate systems concepts and family dreamwork concepts into a model for helping individuals utilize dreams to relieve relationship issues with family members and other major people in the person’s life.
METHOD
The participant was a Caucasian American woman, Rose. She interpreted her dreams and in the process monitored her dreams for emotional states of mind and changes in emotional states of mind about unsettling issues with relationships. She used dream suggestions of how to change underlying thoughts, attitudes and behavior to help her consciously understand and alleviate distressing emotional issues involved with her relationships. When other major relationships and relationship issues were implicated or depicted in an original series, she worked with dreams about the other relationship(s).
The theme, major relationships, was used for selecting series of dreams. Criteria for choosing a particular relationship was that the relationship was predominantly depicted in the participant’s dreams and reflected unresolved emotional issues. In all, eight series of dreams were selected, including husband, mother, dad, son, mother-in-law, a mentor, childhood best friend, and a series of dreams exclusively about sexual issues.
A dream interpretation model, the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID) was developed and used during the process. The steps of the PMID are:
Step 1: Connect the dream contents to current events and circumstances (most often same day) to identify the context or category of the dream.
Step 2: Connect pre-dream thoughts (most often same day) to dream contents by treating the dream as a responsive answer to pre-dream thoughts.
Step 3: Develop personally experienced-based definitions, or associations about each dream symbol: each dream character, place, object or circumstance.
Step 4: Explore dream for evidence of current emotions. Also, explore dream for changes in emotions over time about a relationship or issue being studied.
Step 5: Explore dream for possible suggestions of how to change thoughts, attitudes or behaviors leading to understanding of and reduction of relationship issue.
Step 6: Examine dream for interconnectedness of conceptions about the main dream character with other relationships depicted or implicated in the dream.
RESULTS
For purposes of concise yet detailed reporting the Joel series is highlighted to demonstrate the results of the study. For information about obtaining all the dreams and interpretations used in the study, write to Evelyn M. Duesbury, 960 Stonebridge Road, No. 11, Platteville, WI 53818.
The six steps of the PMID were used to address the five research questions developed for this study. To guide the reader’s review of the results, the research questions and the PMID steps that address each research question are provided next.
Research Question 1: Assuming a dreamwork approach is appropriate, what dream interpretation method can be used for self-facilitation? All six steps in the PMID address this question. That is, all the steps were designed for individual use.
Research Question 2: Can a dream interpretation method be personalized to each individual dreamer? PMID Step 3, develop personally experienced-based definitions, or associations about each dream symbol: each dream character, place, object or circumstance specifically addresses this question. Yet all six steps generally address Research Question 2 since all six steps reflect information, emotions, understanding and relationships unique to the dreamer.
Research Question 3: Will the use of dream interpretations reflect change in emotion over time? PMID Step 4, explore dream for evidence of current emotions; also, explore dream for changes in emotions over time about a relationship or issue being studied, addresses this question.
Research Question 4: Will the use of dream interpretations help the dreamer understand relationship issues? PMID Step 5, explore dream for possible suggestions of how to change thoughts, attitudes or behaviors leading to understanding of and reduction of relationship issues, addresses this question. PMID Step 6, examine dream for interconnectedness of conceptions about the main character of a dream with other relationships depicted or implicated in the dream also addresses this question. All the steps generally address Question 4 since all the steps contribute to the development and understanding of meanings not previously understood by the dreamer.
Research Question 5: Will the use of dream interpretations help the dreamer alleviate relationship issues? PMID Steps 5 and 6 address this question. Table I lists the relationship issues identified by the participant in her series of dreams about her husband, and Table II shows how the participant used her dreams and PMID interpretations to reduce relationship issues about her husband.
These following two dreams and PMID interpretations demonstrate Rose’ PMID use.
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