The Misty Crystal dream circle is a community of dreamworkers who meet in Budapest on the last Friday evening of every month to share their dreams and engage in the work and play of unfolding those dreams through the practice of dreamwork.
Dreamwork is an approach to dreams that acknowledges the power of engaging more deeply with the experience of the dream through formulating open questions, exploring the relationships between the elements of the dream narrative, bringing the dream alive through dream theater, re-entering the dream through the imagination, discovering the associations between dream elements and the facts of our waking lives, basing actions in our waking lives on impulses and suggestions received through our dreams, and resisting the temptation to jump to conclusions about "interpretation" until this working and playing with the dream blesses us with "aha!" experiences of true insight.
The dreamwork movement arose in the 1970s as an antidote to an overly intellectualized view of dreams derived from psychoanalysis and a purely materialist, scientistic view of the phenomenon of mind. (i.e. It's all just electrochemical activity in the brain.) Psychoanalysis used (uses) dreams as a means of identifying a patient's psychopathology; a worthy pursuit, if it serves to bring about mental health. But dreaming is so much more, and can be used for so much more. The movement sought to place the dreamer back at the center of the dream experience, and not the so-called expert who was interpreting the dream for them. It is a hard and fast rule of dream circles that nobody can tell someone else what their dream means. They may only suggest what the dream would mean to themself. For this reason, when speaking of someone else's dream, we employ the introductory phrase "if it were my dream...".
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