The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination by Robert Moss Page A
Authors: Robert Moss
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Second Move
The Partner asks the Three Big Questions. (1)How did you feel? (2) Reality check: What do you recognize from this dream in the rest of your life, and could any part of this dream be played out in the future? (3)What do you want to know about this now?
The Dreamer answers all three questions.
Third Move
The Partner now shares whatever thoughts and associations the dream has triggered for him or her. The Partner begins by saying, “If it were my dream, I would think about such-and-such.” The etiquette is very important. By saying “if it were my dream,” we make it clear that we are not setting out to tell the Dreamer what his or her dream — or life — means. We are not posing as experts of any kind. The Partner is just sharing whatever strikes him or her about the dream, which may include personal memories, other dreams, or things that just pop up. (Those seemingly random pop-ups are often the best.)
Fourth Move
Following the discussion, the Partner asks the Dreamer: What are you going to do now? What action will you take to honor this dream or work with its guidance? If the Dreamer is clueless about what action to take, the Partner will offer his or her own suggestions, which may range from calling the guy up or buying the pink shoes to doing historical or linguistic research to decode odd references. Or, the Dreamer may want to go back inside the dream (see below) to get more information or move beyond a fear. One thing we can do with any dream is to write a personal motto, like a bumper sticker or something that could go on a refrigerator magnet.
Lightning Dreamwork is suitable for almost any group environment. A company manager who had taken one of my trainings introduced her department to the Lightning Dreamwork Game. They found it so much fun — and so helpful in bringing through specific guidance — that the members of her office agreed to devote twenty minutes each morning to sharing dreams as a group. Instead of a diversion of time and energy, the game was highly energizing and became the source of creative business solutions as well as personal healing.
GOING BACK INSIDE YOUR DREAMS
The best way to get to the meaning of a dream is to go back inside the dream and reclaim more of the full experience. The dream experience should not be confused with the remembered dream, which is often blurry or fragmentary. Going back inside a dream will tell us whether the dream images should be regarded literally, symbolically, or as glimpses of a separate reality into which we have traveled during the night.
We may want to go back inside a dream to gather more information. For example, a friend who was a senior executive at a Fortune 500 corporation dreamed he was summoned to a beach house during a work crisis in which he was in danger of losing his job. He did not recognize the dream location, though he speculated that the beach house could be the second home of one of his bosses. I suggested that he might want to reenter the dream and get some more information. I assisted him by helping to clarify his intention — I will revisit the beach house and find out about the work crisis — and by giving him some fuel for the journey, in this case the steady beat of a frame drum.
In a relaxed posture, with his eyes covered, following the beat of the drum, my friend was able to revisit the dream house exactly as he might have gone back to a house he had visited in ordinary reality. He learned that it was indeed the second home of one of his bosses, and he acquired specific details about the crisis in the offing that could cost him his job. As a result of this dream reentry, my friend accomplished two things. First, he was able to use the early warning of a work crisis to take appropriate steps to safeguard his job. Second, when the crisis he had previewed did erupt, and he was summoned to an emergency meeting at the beach house he had visited in his dream, he was on the right side of the table
Second Move
The Partner asks the Three Big Questions. (1)How did you feel? (2) Reality check: What do you recognize from this dream in the rest of your life, and could any part of this dream be played out in the future? (3)What do you want to know about this now?
The Dreamer answers all three questions.
Third Move
The Partner now shares whatever thoughts and associations the dream has triggered for him or her. The Partner begins by saying, “If it were my dream, I would think about such-and-such.” The etiquette is very important. By saying “if it were my dream,” we make it clear that we are not setting out to tell the Dreamer what his or her dream — or life — means. We are not posing as experts of any kind. The Partner is just sharing whatever strikes him or her about the dream, which may include personal memories, other dreams, or things that just pop up. (Those seemingly random pop-ups are often the best.)
Fourth Move
Following the discussion, the Partner asks the Dreamer: What are you going to do now? What action will you take to honor this dream or work with its guidance? If the Dreamer is clueless about what action to take, the Partner will offer his or her own suggestions, which may range from calling the guy up or buying the pink shoes to doing historical or linguistic research to decode odd references. Or, the Dreamer may want to go back inside the dream (see below) to get more information or move beyond a fear. One thing we can do with any dream is to write a personal motto, like a bumper sticker or something that could go on a refrigerator magnet.
Lightning Dreamwork is suitable for almost any group environment. A company manager who had taken one of my trainings introduced her department to the Lightning Dreamwork Game. They found it so much fun — and so helpful in bringing through specific guidance — that the members of her office agreed to devote twenty minutes each morning to sharing dreams as a group. Instead of a diversion of time and energy, the game was highly energizing and became the source of creative business solutions as well as personal healing.
GOING BACK INSIDE YOUR DREAMS
The best way to get to the meaning of a dream is to go back inside the dream and reclaim more of the full experience. The dream experience should not be confused with the remembered dream, which is often blurry or fragmentary. Going back inside a dream will tell us whether the dream images should be regarded literally, symbolically, or as glimpses of a separate reality into which we have traveled during the night.
We may want to go back inside a dream to gather more information. For example, a friend who was a senior executive at a Fortune 500 corporation dreamed he was summoned to a beach house during a work crisis in which he was in danger of losing his job. He did not recognize the dream location, though he speculated that the beach house could be the second home of one of his bosses. I suggested that he might want to reenter the dream and get some more information. I assisted him by helping to clarify his intention — I will revisit the beach house and find out about the work crisis — and by giving him some fuel for the journey, in this case the steady beat of a frame drum.
In a relaxed posture, with his eyes covered, following the beat of the drum, my friend was able to revisit the dream house exactly as he might have gone back to a house he had visited in ordinary reality. He learned that it was indeed the second home of one of his bosses, and he acquired specific details about the crisis in the offing that could cost him his job. As a result of this dream reentry, my friend accomplished two things. First, he was able to use the early warning of a work crisis to take appropriate steps to safeguard his job. Second, when the crisis he had previewed did erupt, and he was summoned to an emergency meeting at the beach house he had visited in his dream, he was on the right side of the table
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