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Ma 252 in al hd la la H sur- S li Chapter 5 • Obsessions and Transformations mentaries on "the affairs of the everyday," these significant dreams were dreams, he wrote, were “nightly fragments of fantasy," thinly veiled com- associated with major life passages, deep relationship issues, and spiritual power. The Greek New Testament seems to contain more words for inner Many cultures have had a terminology for such dreams of surpassing opposed to waking); enypnion (a vision seen in sleep that comes by experience than Eskimos have for snow: onar (a vision seen in sleep as or waking visions); horasis (a supernatural vision); optasia (a supernatural prise); horama (which could refer to visions of the night, sleeping visions, vision that implies the Deity revealing Himself); and so on. By and large have little at hand beyond dream and nightmare. Given our cultural the English language has been impoverished of a working vocabulary; W city, it can be a struggle to define these signal occurrences. sal Choctaw Indian acquaintance named Preston. A humorous man with “How do you know when you've had a special dream?" I once asked a person,” a trickster and comedian-he grew uncharacteristically serious features-his role in his tribe, he told me, was as a "backwards It Yatosi mong 11. "These vision dreams are things that you follow," he said. “Things that you do. They show you a situation that needs to be taken care of, and a way to turn it around."san Rollita molHD 198 il “But how do you know?” I pressed him. Sb sto borilab "It's the way you feel. That kind of dream wakes you up very sudden- 1. i at my question.se 15 10 like. Maybe you wake up really, really happy." He looked at me, eyebrow cocked. “Or maybe you wake up with your bed so soaking wet you'da thought you'd peed on yourself!” His ribald comment points to a universally reported attribute of Heal- ing Dreams-what we might call ontological weight, the heft and imme- diacy of lived experience. Remarks from various dreamers return often to a common theme of “realer than real.” They often comment on the acuity of the senses--taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing. I, too, can recall awakening with my ears still ringing from a dream gunshot, or wak- ing up momentarily blinded by a dream's burst of light. There is often a depth of emotion that beggars normal waking life. The sixteenth-century rabbi and physician Solomon Almoli wrote: "T one dreams of powerful fantasy images that cause him to be excited or to feel anger or fear during the dream itself, this is a true dream; but if the images are insipid and arouse no strong feelings, the dream is not true.” Such dreams are filled not with simple anxiety, but terror; no mere pleasantness, but heart-bursting joy. People report waking up on tear-soaked pillows, or laughing in delight. (The Bantu people of Africa have a specific term for the latter-bilita mpatshi, or blissful dreaming.) Marc lan Barasch • What Is a Healing Dream? 253 Er designed to produce in colorful, oversized costumes presented stories contrived to put an Healing Dreams are analogous to ancient Greek theater, where actors audience through the emotional wringer; to make it feel, viscerally, the heroes' agonies and ecstasies. Indeed, some Healing Dreams feature larger-than-life settings and personages-palatial buildings, sweeping landscapes, beings of supernatural goodness or terrible malignancy. "audience" to a metanoia, a change of heart. 122 SM Like drama, such dreams often have an unusually coherent narrative structure. Islamic dream texts refer to the ordinary dream as azghas- literally, "handful of dried grass and weeds," signifying a lack of arrange- ment-in contrast to the more coherent messages of akham ("genuine inspiration from the Deity, warning from a protecting power, or revela- tion of coming events”). The Healing Dream's storytelling tends to be more artful, often containing a rich array of literary or cinematic layode - loo b) 320 15 devices-subplots, secondary characters, sudden reversals and surprise ration and background music, endings, flashbacks and flashforwards , adumbration, even voice-over nar- Healing Dreams often involve a sense of the uncanny or paranormal. Within the dream, one may find one has special powers to telekinetically move objects; receive information as if via telepathy, levitate; transform oneself into other creatures, visit heavens or hells. Dreamers report of out-of-body experiences; actual events foreseen; talking with the departed; having a near-identical dream to that of a friend or loved one; and other strange synchronicities. Healing Dreams hum with so much energy that, like a spark from a Van de Graaf generator, they seem to leap the gap between the visible and invisible worlds. Monodada In such dreams, symbols tend to be extraordinarily multilayered- exaggerated cases of what Freud referred to as "over-determination," where an image seems to be "chosen” by the unconscious for its multi- plicity of associations. Language itself reveals a dense richness. A key dream-word may yield half a dozen definitions, each with a different or even opposing nuance. There is often a powerful aesthetic component- such dreams may depict dances and rituals, music and song, poetry, pho- tos , paintings, and other art forms. There is frequently a collective dimension--the dream seems to transcend the dreamer's personal con- cerns, reaching into the affairs of family, clan, community, or the world oli stand wish lo pa Such dreams also have a peculiar persistence. People report waking up with the images still before their eyes. The dream lingers in memory 109 om swisi at large. long after common ones fade. New meanings emerge over time. One Lame Deer told one researcher, "has taken me all my life." lives, as it were, into the dream. “The findout," the Native American sage
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Article Name: What Is A Healing Dream?
Author: Mark Ian Barasch
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1. What sentences made you feel very excited intellectually?
“I have coined the term healing dreams, because they seem to have a singular intensity of
purpose: to lead us to embrace the contradictions between flesh and spirit, self and other, shadow
and light in the name of wholeness. The very word “dream” in Hebrew-chalom- derives from the
verb meaning “to be made healthy or strong.” With remarkable consistency, such dreams tell us
that we live on the merest out shell of our potential, and that the light we seek can be found in the
darkness of a yet unknown portion of our being.”
Intellectually, these sentences tell of an idea of a dream and its relevancy and importance to
human beings, their growth, and their self-discovery. The author uses its Hebrew meaning to
elaborate on the connotation that accords a dream such an important role in the life of any one
person. It is true that recent discoveries in various field have justified that human intelligence is
still way below utilization as pointed out by the author. In those specific lines, the reader is able
to understand the importance upon which dreams play in our day to day lives and the need to
seek more understanding of “healing dreams.”

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2. What sentences made you feel a connection emotionally?
The author writes of “a sense of the uncanny or paranormal” in trying to explain the term
“healing dreams.” He continues to expound on the out-of-body experience that characterize such
an occurrence. This explanation connects emotionally due to the familiarity of such an
occurrence, to not only me, but also amongst my friends and relatives. It is not unfamiliar to hear
stories of people having dreams that they believe were not ordinary dreams, but a message from
a higher po...


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