Dream Interpretation for Discovery of Oneself

AY2016/17 Dream Interpretation for Discovery of Oneself ௃ჲϛี౪ઍȆ‫ר‬ CORE101: Fundamentals about Myself ! CORE1314: ൶‫ײ‬ઍғ‫ޟ‬ȶ‫ר‬ȷ ‫הר‬ఖӵ Year 1 ਢԤΡ֙ວ‫ٱޟר‬ Unity in Diversity 'TGCO,PVGTRTGVCVKQPHQT 'KUEQXGT[QH2PGUGNH ট‫ۈ‬ĻᏎአᐑȆષ }'TGCO~TGHGTUVQCUWEEGUUKQPQHKOCIGU VJQWIJVUQTGOQVKQPURCUUKPIVJTQWIJQPG|U OKPF FWTKPI UNGGR $NOQUV GXGT[ QPG QH WU FTGCOU YJGP YG CTG UNGGRKPI +QYGXGT FQ QWT FTGCOU ECTT[ CP[ OGCPKPIU" 2T CTG VJG[LWUVKNNWUKQPUETGCVGFD[QWTDTCKPU" In order to ind out the mysteries about dreams, we have invited Prof. Stephen Palmquist, the instructor of the interdisciplinary GE course GDAR1877/ GDSS1877 Dream Interpretation for Personal Growth, to share his views on the relationship between dream interpretation and personal growth. 3 “‫୍⚟”ۈ‬ƈ‫׽‬ᐮᐒ೧ᢴ࿮ጐጎ Ꮢ঄ʍ੄྘઻ਫ੖。ऌŏ༊ Ɂƈ ഺ‫׽‬ᐮᐒെ ≓Ǧ‫ۈ‬ ᅿ ៾ ⚟‫ۈ‬ൌỌ ഼ ƱǠੑ្Տ⚭ Έ೟⚟ᾉŶ‫ۈ‬Ф೟‫ۋ‬ᢴॉ๛̝ ȀᏒउᶜ⚭ 捀✫鍑Ꟛ鸏❉閱䙼䧮⦛鼝锞✫來䱇鸒陏 來肬騗㷸猰猰湡 GDAR1877/ GDSS1877 Dream Interpretation for Personal Growth 涸륔䙼㥅來䱇ⴕ❧➮㼩չ鍑㣆պ莅չ⦐➃䧭 Ꟁպ涸ꡠ⤚涸溏岁 અᑠ௮͌⪙ My dear friend, 䧮钢捀㣆㞯㽠⫹⥌⟝
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♧垺歋 I think of dreams as being like letters (or emails) written from our unconscious to our conscious selves, offering images that hint at new possibilities that we might explore for our future development. In our daily life, if we write to a friend but they never write back, then the friendship probably won’t last very long. Remembering our dreams is like opening and reading the messages from the friend who lives in our unconscious. Trying to interpret them is like writing back to the friend. In other words, to interpret a dream is to offer a conscious response to the message our unconscious has sent to us. Personal growth happens as we learn to balance the often conflicting tendencies of our conscious and unconscious selves. If we neglect our dreams, we will need to ind some other good ways of balancing these aspects of our personality. Otherwise, we may remain at a stage of psychological immaturity. 悴䠑陏㻨窍剤䠑陏涸荈䊹⚛诔姽䲾 㻨♧❉殥꬗冝爚倞〳腋䚍䧴捀⦐ ➃劢⢵涮㾝䲿⣘倞倰ぢ⟃⣘䧮⦛䱳 程傈䌢欰崞⚥㥶卓䧮⦛㻨⥌窍剦 ⿼⡎㼩倰䖰♶㔐銼⿼铿㣐嚌♶剚 Ꟁ⛉鎹⡞㣆㞯㥶ず䬓Ꟛㄤ鑬隡⡞ 㖈悴䠑陏酭涸剦⿼涸⢵⥌罜鍑㣆 㽠⫹㔐⥌䳖鎊⛓鍑㣆㽠⫹剤䠑 陏㖒㔐銼悴䠑陏涮窍䧮⦛涸鎝䜂 悴䠑陏ㄤ䠑陏竤䌢涮欰遼瑳罜㷸 绢㥶⡦䎂邂剤ꡠ遼瑳剚䌟⢵⦐➃䧭 Ꟁ㥶䙐鋕㣆㞯䧮⦛㽠銴㼦䪪 Ⱖ➮倰岁⟃䎂邂⦐➃䧭Ꟁ♶ず 倰꬗や⵱㼟宕黇⨢殆㖈䗱兰劢 䧭擿涸ꥣ媯 ,PVGTRTGVKPIFTGCOUKUNKMG TGRN[KPINGVVGTUVQVJGHTKGPFYJQ NKXG GUUKPQWT NKXGUKPQWTWPEQPUEKQWU ᱏ‫ࠝۈ‬ʍణ߸‫כ‬ȭᚕ Ǜ Ǜ‫׽‬ષɅჍੑᳪᯭᏒാЏ 4 Almost every culture has stories or myths relating to dreams. In fact, some cultures refer to their own ancient history, their Golden Age, g as a “Dreamtime”. So it’s not surprising s rpr sing i that hat h at the tthe collective coll ollle ollec ec ctive c ct ivve e memory me em mory of of that th th time t me is often ften about a abou dreams. drea drea am ams a ms. m ,PVJG(CUV One of the greatest ancient Chinese philosophers, rrs, rs s, Zhongzi, told a story about a man who fell asleep, ep, p,, p dreamed he was a butterfly, and then after waking ng n g up found it dificult to determine whether he was a as himself, who had just dreamed of being a butterfly, fl fly, or a butterfly who was now dreaming that he was ass a human being. The story ends with the surprising n ng statement: “This is the transformation of things.”” I take this ending to mean that dreaming offers uss a daily reminder of the importance of continually llyy transforming ourselves into a new person. But But it also expresses the fact that interpreting our ur dreams will not always be easy! ,PVJG:GUV ,P ,,P PVVJG VJ JGG : UUVV J V A good de exam ex example x mp e o off a culturally cultu u al speciic ssp spec pe eciic c c dream eam am myth myyth th is that th th of the Ojibwe, O b e Oj Oji e, a tribe trribe be of o Native Na a Americans Americans eric cans an who wh ho h o believed b believ elilie el l ev v that their heir he eir ancestors ances a ce estors e to o s were w e protected we prote p prote ected ted by Asibikaashi, A As sibikaashi si ibikaashi a h a ash spider woman. She would spin her spider webs while they slept and the webs would catch the bad dreams (i.e. the nightmares) while allowing the good dreams to pass through the webs. They believed she was also responsible for catching the sun and ensuring that it rose again each new day. As the tribe grew larger, Asibikaashi was no longer able to watch over all of them, so she taught them to make dreamcatchers, which protect their dreams in the same way when they are hung near a person’s bed at night. 5 䎙⛖嫦♧珏俒⻋鿪剤Ⱖꡠ倴鍑㣆涸佦✲䧴⫄铞✲ 㻜♳剤❉俒⻋欩荛剚珖ㄎⰦ〢➿娜〷⽰չ랔ꆄ 儘➿պ捀չ㣆儘꟦պ㔔姽殹聃ⵌ鑪儘劍涸꧌넓 㔐䥊㣐鿪莅㣆剤ꡠ涸儘⦬♧럊⛳♶䠮ⵌ끇鏄 ‫׽‬൮ಥ‚‚ 蛅㶩僽⚥㕜〢➿剓⚺銴涸ㆹ㷸㹻⛓♧➮剎竤铞麕♧⦐佦 ✲剤♧⦐➃漗满✫㣆鋅荈䊹隶䧭軤軨⡎㣆ꄁ䖕ⴕ♶ 幢ⶍ䩞僽➃⡲㣆䧭捀軤軨鼩僽軤軨⡲㣆⻋捀➃鸏佦✲ ⟃♧〣չ姽⛓閗暟⻋պ⡲穡䧮钢捀鸏穡铃涸㌈䠑僽㣆 㞯䲿爚䧮⦛銴♶倬䧭Ꟁ䧭捀倞涸➃⡎僽鸏ず儘 铞僈鍑㣆⚛ꬌ僒✲ ‫׽‬ᰤಥ‚‚ Ⱖ⚥♧⦐Ⱘ剤俒⻋暶婌䚍涸ꡠ倴㣆涸⫄ 铞銴锓ⵌ繡㕜⾲⡞字 Ojibwe 
Ojibwe 湱⥌郗⯓「蹋跬㥏 Asibikaashi ⥃隌殹 ➮⦛漗满䖕
Asibikaashi 剚鱲⹛㥠涸蹋 跬笪䫌⡞䨾剤㐽㣆〫㺂鏪㥪㣆瑭麕蹋 跬笪
Ojibwe ❠湱⥌ Asibikaashi 頾顑䯝 㣖ꤿ⟃焷⥃嫦㣔㣖ꤿ鿪剚⼮饱ꦑ满停 ➃㡭㣐
Asibikaashi 搂岁ⱄ鷷♧㸛隌停 ➃䨾⟃㥠來䱇停➃醢鸤䯲㣆笪りㄫ➮ ⦛䪾䯲㣆笪䱦㖈䎯鼹➿剐 Asibikaashi 糒糵⥃隌➮⦛ 6 When I teach my GE course, I try to discourage my students from depending on this kind of ixed interpretation. Sometimes such “codes” for dream interpretation can give us helpful hints, but they are often irrelevant to many readers. According to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, two of the greatest dream interpreters in the history of psychology, the same dream image or event can have very different meanings for different people. In order for the interpretation to be more scientiic, we need a principle that applies to all interpretations but that gives freedom for each person to apply to their own situation. I especially like Jung’s key principle, which he calls “compensation”: the unconscious shows us images or events that compensate for something that we are viewing in an extreme way in our conscious life. So, for one person a dream of being chased might indeed be telling them that they are under too much pressure in their daily life, in which case the dream would suggest that they need to ind ways to relax. But for another dreamer, the same dream might be warning them that they are being too lazy in their waking life and that if they don’t apply more pressure to their commitments, they might encounter pressure later on. Similarly, one person might associate a shooting star with danger (a heavenly body coming into a foreign place where it doesn’t belong), and this could indeed send the message of an impending illness. But another dreamer might associate the same image with hope (as when a person says that when you see a falling star you should make a wish and it will be granted), in which case the dream might send the message that they should be more optimistic in their daily life. What is important in dream interpretation is ensuring that the message relates to the individual dreamer, not that a magic formula is being applied. 7 來鸏Ꟍ鸒陏來肬猰儘䧮㎲鑑렽⺑㷸欰ⴽ⣜飅 鸏❉㹁㘗涸鍑㣆铞岁剤儘⦬鸏❉鍑㣆չ➿ 焺պ腋窍䧮⦛剤欽涸䲿爚⡎㣐㢵侸鿪莅䧮⦛ 搂ꡠ呏亙衽そ䗱椚㷸㹻⡱峫⟻䗞ㄤ囙呔䨾 铞⽰⢪僽ず♧㣆㞯䧴✲⟝㼩♶ず涸➃⢵铞 鿪剤♶ず涸䠑纏捀✫腋刿猰㷸㖒灇瑖㣆㞯 䧮⦛꨾銴♧哭⾲⵱鸏⾲⵱傂腋㤛欽ⵌ䨾剤鍑 㣆铞岁⿶腋窍嫦➃駈㣁涸꫙崞䚍⢵㼟鸏⾲⵱ 䥰欽ⵌ荈䊹涸贖㞯 䧮暶ⴽ㋐姹囙呔涸չ酢⮉պ⾲⵱➮钢捀 悴䠑陏剚㾝爚♧❉殥꬗䧴✲⟝⟃酢⮉䧮⦛ 㖈剤䠑陏涸欰崞⚥♧❉噲畮涸䟝岁ㄤ⨞岁 㔔姽㥶卓剤➃㣆鋅鄄➃鷆馜〳腋僽㣆㞯 姻䲿爚➮㖈傈䌢欰崞⚥姻䪭「满㣖㣐㠺⸂ 䥰䪪倰岁佞논⡎㼩倴〥♧➃⢵铞㣆鋅鄄 ➃鷆馜〳腋➿邍➮㖈幢ꄁ涸欰崞⚥㣖䧀䟙 陪デ➮㥶♶刿⸗⸂㖒㾷遤䪭開玖䖕〳腋剚 䪭「㠺⸂ ず垺㖒剤❉➃〳腋㼟崩僤鍑隡䧭⽭ꦖ㣔 넓㟛衆ⵌ♶㿂倴㸐涸㖒倰钢捀鸏䠑㄂满 荈䊹䘰銴欰氻⡎ず♧㣆㞯〥♧➃䧴鏪耢 Prof. Stephen Palmquist 륔䙼㥅來䱇 3&- ⚥俒缺陼⡦悉巯 խխխխ缺陼㷸㔋䎃秹 䟝ⵌ䋞劆㔔捀剤➃铞ぢ崩僤鏪격격劆 剚䧭溫鸏㣆涸㌈䠑䧴僽㼩傈䌢欰崞䠮 ⵌ刿⸈坿錚 鍑㣆剓ꅾ銴涸僽銴焷⥃鍑㣆⥌䜂僽莅⡲㣆 涸➃剤ꡠ罜ꬌ㋲秫㖒䥰欽눦岁Ⱇ䒭 8