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Dream analysissubjectBy BETTY POTTER KJ staff writerIf people paid more attention to their dreams they could learn a lot about themselves, according to two instructors at the New England Feeling Center in Milford, N.H.John Parliman and Amy Holloway believe that dreams reflect people’s daily lives and those lives can be made more pleasant if people talk about the dreams they have at night. They also believe people should talk more about the things they feel about every day living.The two young instructors began their discussion Tuesday night at the Lithgow Library by asking a series of questions.— Do your friends appear in your dreams?— Are your dreams completely clear so they teach you things to avoid when your awake?— Do you have the starring role?— Do your dreams change your waking life?— Do your dreams make you feel good?“If you got no yeses youTe missing out on athird of your life. If you had two yeses you need to develop dream potential. If you had only three yeses you aren’t able to dream yourself into feeling good,” Holloway said. “Dreams are pictures of your feelings. Why do you carry pictures in your wallet? Because they make you feel good. That’s like a dream.”Parliman said: “You wake up you feel blah. Your dream is telling you something. Share it with someone. Probably your dream told you, ’Hey, I don’t want to have the same old day again'.”Holloway said: “We don’t ask what you are in the dream, we ask how you are in your dream. Are you the victor? Are you in control? How did you feel in that dream?”Parliman said a person’s waking life and dream life are paralleled.“Pm the same person in the dream. I’m the director, actor. What goes on in my dreams is what goes on in my waking life.”Holloway said there are four dynamics to consider about dreams:1. Role - The amount of activity you feel in your life.. 2. Feeling - Body sensation, hurt, hunger, anxiety.or talk3. Expression - What you show, what comes out of you.4. Clarity - Your own inner awareness.The group was asked to share a dream. Onewoman shared her husband’s reccuring dream. He’s chased by an animal, he runs and when he wakes up he’s petrified. Holloway said the dream is telling him he’s running in his life. She said the symbol means nothing.She told the woman, “It’s a wonderful message. It’s something that petrifies him during the day.”Holloway told of a girl that attended the center. She had a recurring dream of a gorilla chasing her. One day she turned on the gorilla, and said, “You stop chasing me.” The gorilla turned out to be the girl’s mother and she was saying, “Get off my back mother I’m 35 years old,”The two lecturers told the group their dreams could teach them something if they would share them with others.“By sharing how you feel during the day you can change your dreams at night,” Holloway said.Another girl in the audience decided to share a recent dream of hers.“Pm with an old woman, we’re going bear hunting. She picks up a limb. I pick up a limb. We come on this huge old bear. She starts poking him. I’m saying, ‘bey lady, you’re going to die’. Then there’s another lady, now the limbs are twigs with small arrows on them. One lady shoots hers at the bear. The other lady shoots hers, but the bear is still alive. I know I’ve got to go stick the bear but I don’t want to. I feel sad about it.”Parliman asked the girl: “Have you been taking some little steps in your life lately? She picked up the stick. You picked up the stick. She went to the bear. You went to the bear. You just don’t want to be following much anymore.He told the girl she was making some changes in her life and its showing up in a dream.He said her dream showed that she didn’t want to follow, she wanted to lead her own life.The New England Feeling Center will sponsor a Dream Maker Training Course in Boston on January 22. Information may be obtained by writing the center at 70 Nashua St., Milford, N.H.
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Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Maine, US
Wed, Nov 30, 1977
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