this technique assumes that you remember an important dream that you once had, and you wish to expand it in order to make it useful in real life. it’s more like introspection. i guess it’s a good approach when you wanna come up with ideas, but there is so much pressure that you can’t think straight any more. it looks like a very unconventional way of being creative within a business environment.
The key steps of the process are:
1. Locate the dream: name the dream, immerse yourself into it and feel its atmosphere. identify your feelings, relationships and the situation. see if you are au courant with them.
2. Discover the dream: take a ‘birds eye view’, and fly high up in the sky looking down on your dream. is what you see obvious, what would you like to whisper to the dream… look at it from different angles and see what comes to your mind. now imagine the dream on center stage in a room. walk around it.
3. Develop images: identify the most striking aspect of the dream. is it a person, scene, building, object or event…then get inside it, either mentally or visualize it on a chair opposite and switching seats. talk about yourself and your opinions as well as your viewpoint about the dream itself “Become the dream and answer”.
4. Combine the viewpoints: return to the dream as the main actor, and compare all the features and perspectives, remembering what each one of them has told you. deliberate what you have learned from advancing the dream, and your understanding of the dream world, and how you might live. let your inner self put together the various perspectives. try to put your knowledge into words as clearly as you can.
5. Adapt and progress the dream more successfully by picturing the new approach, attitude or personal quality that you need in order to live this dream and feel really improved at the end of it. “Try reliving it with this new approach or personal quality. Should you find it too difficult to imagine acting differently, just say to yourself: If I did have that quality and if I were like that, what would I do?”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” A.E
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