psychology. I would like to share with you what I learned
from this study and how I went about it.
      I  worked  with most of my dreamers in small groups,
but with some  I  worked individually or through the mail.
I would introduce dream incubation something like this:
     "Dream  incubation  is  eliciting  dreams,  at will, on a
given  night,  that  will  help  you  to  define  and  resolve
problems that confront you in daily life.  For example, if
you have a difficult decision to make,  you can call forth
a  dream  that  will show you why you are having trouble,
by portraying  the  underlying  conflict  in terms you can
understand.  Or  perhaps  you  are   having   a   hard   time
getting along with  a relative or friend.  You can incubate
a  dream  that  will  make  it  clear  to you why,  from the
point   of   view  of  your  unconscious,   you   have  such
trouble.  The  dream  will  thus  offer you a way out of an
interpersonal deadlock.  You  can  elicit dreams that will
go  a  long  way  towards  unscrambling  past dreams that
have  puzzled  you.   With  practice,   you   can   learn   to
incubate dreams on almost anything— what to do next in
your  career,  what  is  troubling  you  in meditation, why
you  find  yourself  discontented  with  your  family, why
it's  so  hard  for  you  to lose weight or give up habits of
thought  and  behavior  that  you  know  are defeating you.
You  can  ask  rather  far-reaching  questions  like,  'Why
did  I  choose to be born into my family?'  Or, 'Why did I
psychically  arrange  to  be  in   that  auto  accident?'  Or,
'What   happens   at  death?'   The  incubated  dreams  will
come the same night you ask them to help you out with a
problem.  They will be  messages from  various levels of
your inner self.  The  dreams may redefine your problem
for  you,   translating   the   problem  from  the  way  you
consciously  see  it  into  the  way your inner self sees it.
The  discrepancy  can  be  very  enlightening. The dreams
may  present  alternatives  to  your  dilemma  that  you've
not  considered.  They  might  also   present   a   possible
resolution  for  you  to  try  out  during  subsequent days.
They might introduce you to whole new areas of psychic
awareness    and    understanding.     Finally,    sometimes
incubated  dreams  seem  to  have  a  resolving,  soothing,

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