These dreams seemed to us to reflect individual attitudes toward the program and other people in it. Discussing them (voluntarily) in the group setting allowed these feelings to be shared and understood by others in the group. This proved to be a way of bringing this kind of unconscious material into the group consciousness.

The last dream, sitting on the toilet on a platform, we generally thought reflected the administrator’s feeling of responsibility to "poop or get off the pot." However, there may have been a precognitive element combined with that visual pun, for a year later the school moved to new quarters. These were on the lower floor of an old mansion, and the toilets were indeed on raised platforms, a requirement made necessary to allow proper drainage.

In further work with dream groups, I have continued this approach, asking near the beginning of the session for persons to recall dreams that may reflect an anticipation of their coming to the class or program. Such dreams are usually forthcoming, and reflect a diversity of levels and information, which can then be worked with in an appropriate manner.

Two aspects of this approach are of importance to those who work with dreams and dream states. The first is that precognitions do occur in dreams and provide material for dream content. Such precognition does not occur for the purpose of displaying itself, except perhaps in cases in which this is a strong psychological need. Rather it occurs where necessary to give information about future events or to draw on future events as a part of the dream stage setting. Occasionally I solicit precognitive dreams, but usually I assume (and instruct myself) that such information will come into my dreams when it will complement my waking understanding and plans.