DAILY DREAM WISDOM JOURNAL / REVIEW-KEY-DREAM-FACETS

Alan Siegel, Ph.D.

Copyrighted Excerpt from Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life’s Answers in your Dreams
by Alan Siegel, Ph.D. (Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 2003)

DATE OF DREAM:

REVIEW: Note important emotional issues of the past day or two especially reactions to important interactions and/or changes in relationships, work, health and mood.


KEY: Jot key words and phrases from the dream when you awaken.


DREAM: Write the entire dream without waking associations.

TITLE:

DREAM FACETS: Guidelines for exploring a dream.

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose a recent dream. Close your eyes and spend one to five minutes immersing yourself in the feelings and sensory images of your dream as if you were re-entering and re-experiencing your dream. Complete the following F A C E T S of your dream in the space below. Write as fast as you can without planning or censoring your thoughts and feelings.

DATE OF DREAM:

FEELINGS: Describe the feelings you experienced during the dream, after waking or in the present.

ASSOCIATIONS: Focus on your dream again and jot down any ideas, thoughts, memories, or insights that spring to mind no matter how odd or unrelated they may seem.

CHARACTERS: List all the main characters and describe your reactions to them in the dream and in waking life. Be aware that characters may represent the real person or symbolize a part of your own personality and that dream characters are often distorted, or combine features of more that one person.

ENDING: Describe how the dream ends and note whether the ending provides partial or total resolution or is unresolved. Note whether the dream ending mirrors any trends in your current relationships.

TITLE OF DREAM:

SUMMARY: What are main emotional themes of this dream and how are they linked with current issues in your life and to important relationships?