DREAM HARVESTING® - Social Dreaming

Social dreaming is where we embrace everything
By Anyes Cartry

Dreamers need thinkers to understand them.

In this time of uncertainty and grief, things that have been unresolved at an individual level pop up on the background of unresolved collective difficulties.

Many people are afraid of their own thoughts, and of their ambivalence. There can be a desire to be clear, straightforward and self-directed but when things around us are unstable, our inner stability is tested.

Dreaming is not an escape, it is holistic thinking. Dreaming is the most important form of thinking, something both Freud and Jung agreed upon, because it gives us a different point of view. What we had forgotten, omitted to look at, turned away from, dismissed or despised, insists on being paid attention to because dreams are the language by which we become whole.

People frequently say they can’t remember their dreams. It’s often because the necessities of everyday life have shaped them into living-as-survival, living as self-defense against potential dangers. It’s often because they haven’t been taught to see reality from multiple perspectives.

Dreams encourage us to examine other perspectives, other ways to look at a situation, a problem, an opportunity, or a conflict.

Dreams teach us to think for ourselves, because their material is a symbiosis between what we have learned from others and from our own experiences, and our own individual make-up, feelings, perceptions and intuitions that are unique to us and that can’t be imitated or copied.

In a time of social crisis, people often have dreams with a similar theme.

This points to the porous nature of our psyche, to the shared space into which dreaming happens, a space where boundaries between in and out, you and me blur. In this psychic field, individual dreaming and collective dreaming merge, and we can find again our sense of belonging.

In a time when we are forced into physical isolation, when our family, friends, or lovers might be seen as potential threats to our own physical existence, our values are therefore turned upside down.  Dreaming together propels us into a sphere where we exchange, communicate, and share on a etheric plane where we find companionship, where we can be heard and where we feel our interconnectedness.

The dreamer and their witness need one another to contain strange, funny, disturbing, silly or prospective thoughts.

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The DreamHarvesting® salon is a translucent container where our psyches can think safely, where no vision and thought is forbidden. When no vision or thought is forbidden, we can grow into maturity. Maturity is where fear has no place because we know we contain everything, and we know we are strong enough to embrace everything.

Anyes offers a Dream Harvesting® Salon:
3 weekly workshops, one hour per week, LIVE online
limited to 8 dreamers
Cost:  $72 total, for all three salon dates
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