OQ16: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Two

Episode descrip­tion:

I con­tinue the con­ver­sa­tion with Dr David Van Nuys on dreams and how they can inform our wak­ing life. In this episode Dr Dave talks about dream work in groups helps us to get to a deep level rather quickly and builds trust and inti­macy through shar­ing dreams, how keep­ing a dream jour­nal allows us to see how our dreams evolve over time and how night­mares can help us over­come the fears in our wak­ing life. Other issues Dr Dave touches upon are the dif­fer­ence between the imag­i­nary and the imag­i­nal and Jung’s idea of the Big Dream.

Dr Dave also gives me some sug­ges­tions as to how I can con­tinue work­ing with the dream I share on the pro­gram, using the method out­lined by Robert Jon­son in his book Inner work. He also com­ments on my dream using the If– this-were-my-dream approach.

After the inter­view I share how not lis­ten­ing to the inner wis­dom that came through another dream, led me to more unnec­es­sary suf­fer­ing and hurt­ing. Because of the some­what sen­si­tive sit­u­a­tion around the dream, I chose to not share it with Dr Dave on the show, nei­ther did I take the time to work with the dream on my own. In the wak­ing life I chose to remain pas­sive and end­ing up in the exact sit­u­a­tion the dream had been warn­ing me for.

Fea­tured music track:

To cel­e­brate the irony in our lives, I play my first day with a mous­tache, another track from Baasztian’s lat­est album diag­no­sis: chron­i­cally ironic.

Episode related resources:

Inner work: Using Dreams and Active Imag­i­na­tion For Per­sonal Growth  by  Robert A. Johnson

Dream work: Tech­niques for Dis­cov­er­ing the Cre­ative Power in Dreams by Jeremy Taylor

#290 of Shrink Rap Radio:  Ally work with Jun­gian ana­lyst Jef­frey Ruff

#289 of Shrink Rap Radio:  Jung and hold­ing the oppo­sites with Jon Jackson

 #204 of Shrink Rap Radio:  Night­mares as a tool for per­sonal growth with Anne Hill

#199 of Shrink Rap Radio: The secret his­tory of dream­ing with Robert Moss

The Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion for the Study of Dreams