Questing is particularly appropriate when the participant describes a specific place or a specific kind of place in meeting with the Main Figure. In one case a woman met a spirit at the foot of a willow tree and there received her gift. When she returned to the waking life, I encouraged her to sketch not only the gift, but also the tree and suggested she look for a willow that felt like the one she saw in her dream and have a picnic under it with a friend.

I support people's adopting a Zen-like attitude of "non- attachment" to their questing. Rather than seeking only one thing at a time and becoming intensely involved in the success or failure of securing this single goal, they can "file" the objects for questing in their "quest catalogue." The "quest catalogue" is a metaphor for an intuitive memory process whereby the dreamer assumes that in the course of daily living one is also questing. Many people have reported a great deal of pleasure in adopting this attitude. An example of the unconscious direction a person provides for oneself in this regard is that very often when the person is questing a particular item, other quest items will "show up" in the course of the search.

Not all ideas or gifts may reach complete fruition in the waking life. As one further integrates the questing attitude, however, the limitations that the waking life imposes on our quests  become  more acceptable  as  there  are  always  other