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Sandra Gonçalves

A journey through
the Labyrinth
of Dreams
Exercise: Summarize Your Current Life Moment
Instructions:
1. Brief Summary: In a maximum of 5 lines, describe what you have been experiencing

recently.

2. Active Themes: Identify the most prominent themes in your life right now.

3. Current Questions: What questions or challenges are you currently contemplating?

4. Simplicity is Key: Aim for clarity and honesty without overthinking.

5. Highlight Key Words: After writing, underline a few words that stand out to you as

particularly significant.
 ORPHIC HYMN TO DREAM
Long-winged Morpheus,
Messenger of future events, supreme prophet to mortals,
In the sweet silence of sleep
You arrive without a sound, ,
Speaking of the soul.
Exciting our minds
In our sumber, you whisper
The will of the Immortals.

In every way bring us closer

To our destined path,
Reveal the concealed
Signatures of fate.
Let no deceitful apparitions
Show us signs of ill omen.
We beg you, holy one,
Show us the will of the gods.

Lucid, T., & Pontiac, R. (2023). The Magic of the Orphic Hymns. Simon and Schuster.
My story with dreams
• Childhood - flying/ falling dreams;

• Adolescence - interrupted sleep and increased recall

• Extraordinary dreams - different times and environments, dreams of things that came to
pass, entering landscapes someone painted, aesthetic and conceptual dreams

• Before pregnancy - announciation dream

• Research in MSC, study of transpersonal psychology...

• Dreamwork
What are dreams?

Aristotle’s definition of dreams, quoted but not accepted

by Freud:

“Dreams are expressions of any kind of mental activity,

under the condition of sleep. The distinctive quality of
dreams, then, is not a particular area of
experience─neither Freud’s „infantile wishes“ nor
Jung’s „true picture of the subbjective state─but the
effect of the condition of sleep upon our mode of
experiencing.”
Why do we dream?

“The primary task of waking man is survival; this means, essentially, that he must think in terms of time and
space, and that his thoughts are subject to the logical laws, which are necessary for action.

During sleep the frame of reference changes radically.

While we sleep we are not concerned with bending the outside world to our purposes. We are helpless─but we
are also free. We are tree from the burden of work, from the task of attack or defense, from watching, and
mastering reality. We live in an inner world concerned exclusively with ourselves.

In sleep the realm of necessity has given way to the realm of freedom where „I”am the only system to which
thoughts and feelings refer.”

Erich Fromm, The Nature of Dreams

TIME SPENT
DREAMING
6 years
TOTAL TIME
In a person's life
How do we dream?
WHAT CREATES THE “Series of images, reported as narratives,
DREAMS? ocurring in the oniric period” Krippner &
Carvalho, 1998

“We are such stuff/ as dreams are made on/

and our little life/ is rounded with a sleep”
Shakespeare, The Tempest IV.I

That which is imagined, hoped for, the utopy,

that which does not yet exist, the Ideal.
What do dreams mean to you?

PLEASE WRITE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE

CHAT
FAQs
• “ I don't recall dreaming - I don't think I dream”

• “Is what happens in dreams real or imaginary? I have some strange experience
with dreams”... Parapsychology

• “What does it mean to dream of ...?” - We are going to learn how to figure this out/
approach this.

• “How important are dreams?” - dreaming, dream recall and working with dreams
 Dream Functions
• Discharge of instinctual energies and preservation of sleep. • Integration and adaptation to new information/learning and

memorization; Regulation of emotions;

• Correction or compensation of the conscious side of the

mind, contact with archetypes and the collective • Highlighting information that goes unnoticed by conscious

unconscious; perception (e.g., the body);

• Problem-solving; • Elimination of metabolic brain waste;

• Restoration of the self, maintenance of psychological • Construction/discovery of meaning (e.g., personal

individuation; mythologies);

• Warnings (health, life decisions, disasters, etc)

• Psychosocial learning;

• Proposing new actions/attitudes/perspectives to the dreamer.

Importance of dreams/dreaming in health

• The Importance of Dreams • Dreams and Psychological Well-being

• Role of Dreams in Emotional • The Connection Between Dreams and

Processing Mental Health

• Dreaming and Memory Consolidation • How Dreams Aid in Problem-solving

and Creativity
• Dreams as a Window to the
Unconscious • Exploring Dream Journals
Introduction to Dreamwork - Dreamwork tools

Dream Journal Painting and drawing Acting /embodying

Sharing Dream Story making Amplification

Experiences Poem writing Incubation

Exercise 2 - Amplify Your Dream Experience
Instructions:
1. Choose a Dream: Select a dream that feels incomplete or unsettling (avoid nightmares).

2. Relax and Re-enter: Calm your mind and imaginatively re-enter the dream, experiencing it with all your senses focused on present sensations

rather than memories.

3. Enhance Details: As you move through the dream, allow your imagination to enhance and add details, making the narrative fuller and more

vivid.

4. Modify the Outcome: Adjust the ending or add elements to achieve a more satisfying conclusion. Consider incorporating an imaginary helper

if needed.

5. Express Emotionally: After revisiting the dream, use paper and crayons to draw a circle filled with the dream’s emotion. Let the colors and

shapes flow naturally.

6. Reflect and Name: Give your artwork a title that spontaneously comes to mind, sign it, and date it.

7. Compare and Contrast: Reflect on how this dream connects with the themes identified in your life moment summary. Are they aligned or

contrasting?

8. Interpret and Understand: Share how you felt during the artistic process and any insights gained from expressing the dream visually.
Exercise 3 - Direct Association
Exercise 3 - Direct Association
Instructions:
1. Select Symbols: Choose 2 or 3 symbols from the provided pictures. Today, we'll all start with the symbol "---."

2. Central Placement: Write down the chosen symbol in the center of your sheet and encircle it, visualizing it as the sun.

3. Create Sun Rays: Draw 4 or 5 rays extending from the central symbol.

4. Generate Associations: In each ray, note down the first association that comes to mind when you focus on the central

symbol.

5. Cycle of Reflection: Return your focus to the central symbol after each association, writing down the immediate thought

that arises.

6. Build Your Symbol Dictionary: This exercise serves as the foundation for your personal dictionary of symbols, exploring

both individual meanings and shared interpretations.

Exploring the Dreamscape: A Year of Dream Discovery
SESSION 1: FOUNDATIONS OF SESSION 4: BEYOND THE VEIL
DREAMING • Exotic Dreams – Types of Dreams: An
• General Theories of Dreams: Understanding overview of unusual dream types.
the biological and psychological bases. • Parapsychology of Dreams: Investigating the
• Dream Recording and Recall: Techniques to paranormal aspects of dreaming.
capture and remember your dreams.

SESSION 2: UNLOCKING SYMBOLS SESSION 5: THE CALL OF DREAMS

• Symbolic Associations: Learning to interpret • Dream Incubation: Techniques to cultivate
the symbolic language of dreams. dreams for problem-solving and inspiration.

SESSION 3: ECHOES IN THE NIGHT SESSION 6: MASTERING LUCIDITY

• Repetitive Dreams and Nightmares: Exploring • Lucid Dreams and Wakeful Lucidity:
their meanings and impacts on emotional well- Learning to navigate and control the dream
being. world.
Exploring the Dreamscape: A Year of Dream Discovery
SESSION 7: MYTHIC LANDSCAPES SESSION 10: THE DREAM JOURNEY
• Dreams and Personal Myths: • Dreams Across the Lifespan: How dreams
evolve from childhood through old age.

SESSION 8: COLLECTIVE DREAMING SESSION 11: THERAPEUTIC

• Dreams Constructed in Groups: The dynamics DREAMWORK
of shared dreaming experiences.
• Dream Therapy: Using dreams as tools for
emotional and psychological healing.

SESSION 9: YOUNG MINDS, SESSION 12: DREAMING WITH THE

DREAMING WORLDS EARTH
• Dreams and Children: Understanding how • Dreams and the Earth: Exploring ecological
young minds dream and what their dreams and spiritual connections in dreams.
mean.
Exploring the Dreamscape: A Year of Dream Discovery
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• Monthly Sessions: Interactive workshops • Supplementary materials and
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Psih. Sandra Gonçalves Psih. Camelia Ana Hanos

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