Great Dreams Blog

We of course can choose to work for others as well as for ourselves. Thus what you determine to be a Great Dream dreamed by yourself may be of inspiration to others as well. Or you would like some feedback to see if even your dream can be considered a Great Dream. You could say, How can anyone else judge if I have dreamed a Great Dream or not? The response is that in fact Great Dreams do have the fundamental characteristics described above. So we can be focused in our evaluations.

A Great Dream to be classified here must score clearly on 8 out of the 13 points. If your dream scores clearly on only 6 of 13 points, then you may post it to the site and describe briefly what points about Great Dreams that your dream clearly expresses. The abscent characteristics will point out to you were you need to work more consciously with yourself and your dreaming and waking life. Thus the exercise is a good one to help you in self-evaluation as to how you are doing in your life. If you don’t dream Great Dreams, please wait until you do, until you have a dream in which there are at least six of the listed points. You must qualify. We must keep the focus of this site narrow so as to portray in-depth work here. We take the dream very seriously here, as we take also the dreamer’s life. We welcome all great dreams.

We also want posted Great Dreams that are already written about. Jung coined the term, “Great Dream”, and obviously believed in them. We shall include some of his Great Dreams as well. Yet there might be others you know about. We are looking especially for your Great Dreams. If you submit please give also not only the dream but your analysis of it according to the criteria. Give also how the Great Dream has affected you so that you have changed your life in some significant way.

If you believe you have a great dream you can do the following.

1. Record the dream as soon as possible, and as completely as possible. Also share it with an understanding friend. For in the retelling of it you can recall and relive more fully aspects of the dream. However, do not embellish the dream or add to it in any way. Show your integrity in remaining faithful to the dreaming experience itself, rather than change your dream report to fit an ego desire to put yourself in a special and positive light to yourself and others.

2. Write a summary of what this dream has done to enlighten and inspire you. Write freely about it. Also how it might tie in with changes your are making, or need to make, in your waking personality and life.

3. Go over the list of characteristics described about to evaluate what in your dream itself might illustrate each of the points. If you have trouble doing so, then enlist the help of a friend or colleague. Just doing this process alone will add meaning to your experience of the dream and your life itself. Take the easier items first so that you can be flowing in your analysis. Then write a summary of what you have found.

4. Make a list of principles, insights, values and attitudes that seem embedded in this dream's images and especially actions. These are for your personal and spiritual guidance. They will deepen your awareness about yourself and life. Some of the insights and principles can be turned into life practices. Make another list of things you will do out of any of these principles and values. Make them realistic actions and tasks that you can accomplish mostly within two to three months. Yet start now. Don't let your dreams inspiration escape you by doing nothing or avoiding. If you must resist, give yourself no more than three days to resist what you know is the value and truth for you. Often one day only of resistance is enough.

5. Make a commitment in journal writing or in other ways to doing a positive and challenging thing in your life that comes partly out of the inspiration of your Great Dream. It is not that the Great Dream tells you what to do. You alone develop insight and consciousness about yourself and your dreams. You alone make actual decisions in daily life. You alone make central life choices at the many crossroads that your life journey leads you to. However, Great Dreams do not come to people just as works of the imagination, as if you are viewing a film. Great Dreams come to you and I as specific moments of our lives. They also come to us partly individualized to our person and life. They are unique to us but also universal and transpersonal in their wholeness and fundamentals involving life. They may also show us new perspectives that lead us to create something new for ourselves and others. Thus Great Dreams can have a cultural effect as well.

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The Purpose of Great Dreams Blog is to record Great Dreams from anyone according to the definition and guidelines written by the International writer and Dreamwork Psychologist, Strephon Kaplan- Williams.

A Great Dream is a night dream dreamed when the waking consciousness of the dreamer is in abeyance, as in sleeping. A Great Dream involves the dream ego, the dreamer's image of him or herself, in a transcendent relationship with a greater source of wisdom, power and guidance than is produced by the dream ego or observing ego. Great Dreams inspire the fulfillment of Waking Great Dreams, inspired visions and projects of value and the imagination that transcend ordinary ego control and action. Great Dreams, to be Great Dreams must have all of the following characteristics.