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Those distressing coalescences of the subconscious called bad- dreams may be forever changed into a healthy affirmation by applying three questions to any such “Nightmare” that intrudes upon your DARK and hopefully dreamless sleep (the best kind for rejuvenation of the Dura matter so we can keep-on-keeping-on)… to the degree that you remember it when you wake up, it continues to hover, smog-like, over the waking hours…you are still in the throes of your shadow!.

There is a self-lesson to be learned right here and there,so, grab a pencil, a napkin, a cup of coffee and recollect your emergent inchoate thought-forms. before they deliques back into the plenum. Then,and more importantly, forget it. Bye George!!(My new swearword) Banish it; so easy, so powerful, so simple:

Axe[sic] yourself 3 questions:

1. What was the range (a continuum) and intensity (1-10) of the emotions I experienced in the dream? (Leave symbolism to Jung; just answer the 3 questions, please.)

2. Did I act, or was I acted-upon? (As above, so below= however we are in the dream is how we are in waking life: active or passive, self-actualizing or victim.)


3. Would I change this dream in any way; and, if so, How? (It is your dream, the underbelly of your conscious, lived -life, a movie about “me”, so make up( you made up the rest of the dream) a better ending and forget about it! It won’t come back. It cannot come back. )


I wish I could take credit for this insight, but it comes from a group of California Psychologists, Corrierri (sp?), others too, and the book is called… Dreaming and Waking. Most eye opening. Since you are awake anyway y;~D.


Paula G.

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