XII. Read the text and then translate it in writing

Interpretation

XI. Play the Dream Game which can help you to understand your inner personality.

You are asleep and you are dreaming. In your dream you find yourself in your perfect house. What is it like? Describe it in detail.

Now you are walking along a narrow path. Suddenly you find a cup (glass) drinking vessel on the ground in front of you. What is it like? What is in it?

Now the path ends and you are walking in a wood. You walk quite a long way until you find a clearing. In the middle of the clearing is a building. What sort of building is it?

Around the building is a garden. Describe the garden.

You walk out of the garden and through the wood. At the edge of the wood there is a wall. The wall is too high to climb over, and it is too long to walk round. Suddenly you notice a small door in the wall. It slowly opens as you watch. What do you do? Do you go through the door?

On the other side of the wall is water. What does it look like? Do you want to swim in it?

Now read about what the images represent and try to analyse your answers.

The house. The house is your idea of yourself. If your house is old, you probably do not like change, you like traditional things. If у our house is large, it means you are wuite confident, with a high opinion of yourself. If it is filled with light, you are optimistic. If it is dark, your are pessimistic. The number of rooms is the number of people you want in your life.

The cup. The cup is your idea of love. The more beautiful and valuable the cup, the more important love is in your life. You are a romantic person. The contents of the cup show what your experience of love has been so far.

The building. The building is your idea of religion and God. A strong build­ing is a strong belief. A ruin would mean a lack of belief.

The garden. This is your idea of the world around you, your country, or the whole world. If the plants and flowers in your garden are dying, this might mean that you are worried about the environment and pollution in the world.

The wall. This is your idea of death. Is it the end or is there something after it? Do you go straight through the little door? Do you look and check before you go? Or don't you want to go through at all?

The water. The water is your idea of your future. If there is a sea with big waves, you feel positive an excited about your future. If you want to swim, you feel confident and want to take risks. If the water is a stagnant pool, you might fear your future and the future of the world.

Dream Repair work

Even if we don't know how to help people change through their dreams, we can profit by studying how their dreams are influenced by the circumstances of their waking lives. One recent survey, for example, asked people whether the amount of time they spent dreaming at night was influenced by what they were feeling during the day. Out of 271 women, 80 percent said there were times when they were aware of dreaming more than their usual amount, and 47 percent said there were times that they were dreaming less. The woman dreamed more, they said, during "times of undue stress" and "blue and upset moods" and less "when things were going especially well". This may mean only that when we are upset we are likely to sleep more lightly, and so are more likely to awaken and become aware of our dreams. However, it is also probable that in times of stress, dreams seem to have more work to do in resolving our problems and are thus more salient and memorable. When things are going well by day, we appear to have less need to dream about such weighty matters.

If dreams do help us work through tensions and problems from the previous day, then we should wake up feeling better than when we went to sleep. This mood regulation function of dreaming has been confirmed by Milton Kramer and Thomas Roth, working at the university of Cincinnati. Kramer and Roth studied the moods of some subjects before and after they went to sleep. They found that in cases in which a person's mood improved after sleep it was usually related to specific aspects of what they had dreamed.

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