REF3 - The post-workshop review thread

[Burned up]

Post-workshop review

This thread is for comments on the Engaging with Dreams workshop, 1-15 Feb 2010.  Please reply with anything you'd like to say about the workshop.  What helped?  What opportunities were missed?  Ideas for related themes?  Anything.

For my part, I have to say I learned quite a bit.  There was more variety of styles in people's responses to my dreams than I expected.  This suggests to me that there are many possible approaches to dream work, from interpretation and analysis to building relationships, to personal challenges. 

I also (and I expected this) don't think I'm any close to any general theories about dreams.  That doesn't mean they're random, just that we think about them in so many ways that beliefs about dreams is a bit like beliefs about global economics - (i.e. take 10 economists and you get 10 different answers).

Looking forward to meeting you all elsewhere in the forum (usually the DJs in my case).

Cheers
Bu

[pj]

Thank you for this innovative and distinctly different workshop, BU!  It was really fun breaking out of my usual DJ beat, and interesting to learn about and revisit some of the different ways dreams are approached.

For a community that exists because of and for dreaming, it is really fascinating to learn how wildly diverse our views about dreaming really are.

[StarSeeker]

It was great to see how different people react to the same images, and how some things are important to some, and completely disregarded by others.

[Moonbeam]

It was fun to do something different, and to (try) to respond to people's dreams in a more organized, coherent way.  (I didn't do very well at that, I don't think.)

I don't think dreams are telling us anything that we don't consciously know, but I was impressed at how well people were able to look at somebody's dream and figure out a lot of things from it that made sense to the dreamer.  And some people do think that they learn from other's analysis, so I may yet be wrong.  One of these days with stuff like this I may find out.

Thanks a lot Bu for doing this.   

[Namaste]

Thanks for running the workshop - it was very interesting reading through the mini DJs

[unseen wombat]

Thanks BU for the workshop. I think I learned that I don't hate dream dictionaries as much as I thought. As long as I just use the interpretations as a guideline, they're helpful for getting me to think about the dreams in a way I might not have before.

[Alex Lou]

It was helpful to look at dreams differently than I have been.  In the past I've been pretty good at finding objects/events that trigger themes in my dreams, but perhaps have had a blind spot for the emotional.  I was surprised by the emotions that emerged in my dreams from my waking life.

[Burned up]

Thanks everyone.  Seems ages ago now!

I don't know how to close down a board but I'm sure it will happen soon.