'I wasn’t immediately sold on the idea of spending hours discussing a stranger’s dream... but by the end of the experience I had been converted' — edithzimmerman explores dream-interpretation groups
Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images We’re generally taught to ignore our dreams, laugh at them, or at the very least acknowledge their dullness . But life is also filled with nudges toward dream-interpretation: there are books, courses, podcasts, games, specialists, and endless internet speculation .
When Robb invited me to sit in on her and her friends’ dream group, I wasn’t immediately sold on the idea of spending hours discussing a stranger’s dream , but by the end of the experience I had been converted. The overall feeling was intimate and thoughtful, and I was struck by the group’s gentle intensity.
Robb’s group was mostly women in their 20s and 30s, and we met one evening in one of their Brooklyn apartments. The host had ordered pizza and made salad, and we sat around her coffee table drinking wine and seltzer while music played quietly in the background. The person who’d brought the dream, J., seemed a little nervous but also excited.Stage 1: The dreamer distributes copies of their typed-up dream and reads it aloud.
Stage 2: In the next stage, the dreamer goes quiet while the rest of the group digs a little deeper and speculates on what the dream would feel like if it were their own: “If this were my dream, I’d be struck by the sense of frustration…” “If this were my dream, I’d notice the reappearance of the metal eyes…” This was the longest part of the process, at least for the session I sat in on.
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