Dream Maker Awareness Program


Important Points To Remember

  • It is important that you remember your dreams. When you remember your deams you remember yourself!
  • Your dreams and feelings can work for you or against you.
  • Dreams are feelings.
  • Dreams are a completion process.
  • Dreams are a picturing process.

What we are trying to teach here is that dreams attempt to fulfill your feelings. To understand dreams, it is often easier to look at waking experiences first; the parallel relationship between dreams and waking is simple. When you continue to have feelings each day that do not get expressed or acknowledged, you dream in symbols. A symbolic dream does not complete feelings, actions, or expressions, and does not working effectively for you.

DREAM NOTES

The Breakthru Dream is a "snapping" between the conscious and the unconscious mind; an eruption. When it first happens, it feels like the longest nightmare you have ever experienced. However, by the time it is over, you realize you've been changed. It becomes a "daymare" because it does not pass with waking, the changes stay with you. The Breakthru dream occurs naturally, but most people are afraid of it. We will teach you how to keep it and use it to your advantage.

Breakthru dreams have consequences. Once you begin having these dreams you will develop a new awareness. Dream Maker awareness combines the emotional power of the unconscious with the heightened control and understanding by the conscious mind.

Making your dreams different means making your life different. This is not a simple weekend's entertainment to be read like a mystery story or western and then forgotten. Dreams can lead you far astray psychologically. Dabbling with your dreams and feelings can be very dangerous, but if you read and follow along like we did, your life will start to change for the better, and you will begin to enter the risky awareness of the Dream Maker.



WEEK ONE


DAY ONE: ROLE

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Are you, the dreamer, active or passive in this dream?
  • Do you have the starring role in this dream or a secondary part?
  • Do you like the way you are in this dream?
  • Are you participating in this dream or just observing?
  • What is the main form of activity in this dream?
  • List all the different roles (ways of doing things, talking, moving, or acting) in this dream. Choose the one you like the most.

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Is your role in this dream similar to your role in waking life?
  • Think about your role in sex, play, work, and relationships.

BODY QUESTIONS

  • Are you aware of the details of your own body movements in the dream? In waking? For example, are you aware of the body sensations of running, hitting, moving your arms, walking, or whatever you were doing?

DAY TWO: EXPRESSION

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • How expressive are you in this dream?
  • What is your main form of expression?
  • Is your expression the main expression in the dream? Or are other forms of expression more dominant?
  • List all the kinds of expression in the dream, the most dominant first.
  1. Most dominant expression
  2. Next strongest expression
  3. Third strongest expression

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Is this the same style of expression that you use in waking?
  • Do you like the way you are expressing in this dream? In waking?
  • What would you think of yourself if other people saw you expressing the same way in waking as you do in this dream?
  • Are there more things you would like to express in the dream but hold in for different reasons? In waking? List them.

BODY QUESTIONS

  • What parts of your body are you aware of as you express yourself in the dream?
  • What parts of your body are you unaware of in this dream?
  • What parts of your body seem restricted or missing?

DREAM MAKER QUESTION

  • Do you believe you have the potential to express more than you do in this dream?

DAY THREE: FEELING

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • What is your feeling level in this dream?
  • What is the overall feeling in this dream?
  • What feelings do you, as the dreamer, experience in the dream?
  • List all the different feelings in this dream, putting the most dominant first:

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Think about all the feelings you had today. Which was the strongest? The weakest?
  • List the feelings you normally do *not* have.
  • What feelings do you have about yourself? ( Do you like yourself? Do you like some things and dislike others?)

BODY QUESTIONS

Here is a list of all the parts of your body. Rate how much you feel in each part.


1= A Little 2=Average 3=A Lot

head shoulders chest pelvic eyes jaws
arms stomach genitals fingers hands back
buttocks lower back thighs calves feet toes

DAY FOUR: CLARITY

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • How clear is this dream?
    1. How vivid were the colors?
    2. Was it fuzzy? Or was it a clear dream picture?
    3. Did you understand everything that happened in your dream when you woke up?
    4. Did the dream make sense as it happened?
  • How clear were you as the dreamer? Did you know the details of what was happening in this dream as you were dreaming? For example, did you know why you were doing things and what you were doing?
  • Which character in the dream seemed to understand what was happening the most?
  • List the characters in order of how clear they were:

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • How clear are you at work? At sex? At play? In your relationships?
  • Do you act on what you know? Or do you silently think about things?
  • Do things just seem to happen to you? Or do you know the cause and effect of what is going on in your life?
  • Are other people in your life clearer than you are?

BODY QUESTIONS

  • While you were dreaming, did you clearly see your body in the dream? What parts were missing?

DAY 5: COMBINING THE FOUR PROCESSES

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Think about the Dream Maker Processes (Role, Expression, Feeling, and Clarity) that you have just learned and ask yourself the following questions:
    1. How do they seem to interact?
    2. Which one seems most important?
    3. Do you have mental blocks against some and not others?
  • Do you notice in your dream that sometimes one of these processes is stronger than the rest?

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • List three situations in which you can remember being aware of all four of these components.
  • Name one person whom you have met that who seemed to have all of these qualities strongly developed.
  • For each process, name one person who you think has that particular process strongly developed.

DAY SIX

Today, do not work with dreams you remember. Instead: Make up a dream story which includes sex, work, play, and relationships in which you are aware of the four Dream Maker processes: Role, Clarity, Feeling, and Expression.

DAY SEVEN

This is a Dream Maker day. Make up an exercise that you think would help you become a Dream Maker. Every other day you have followed our exercises. Today, be inventive and make up your own. It can be anything, the content of the exercise is less important than doing it because it is the doing that really helps you pay attention to your dreams. (We're serious when we say the exercise can be anything. If you want you could eat banana ice cream while standing on your head and that would be a good Dream Maker exercise. You'd never forget it!)


WEEK TWO

DAY EIGHT: GRAPHING YOUR ROLE

DREAM QUESTIONS

Remember, by role we mean how physically active you are in your
dreams, how much you move your body - arms, legs, hands, etc.

Now we want you to graph or plot how active you are in your dreams.

  1. No role. You have no role in the dream.
  2. Passive. You are only a part of the dream. Your role is that of someone who is present but uninvolved and unresponsive.
  3. Slightly active. There is some response by you to dream events, but for the most part your role does not change the outcome of the dream.
  4. Active. Your activity is obvious in the dream. Your role in response to events is complete.
  5. Very active. Your activity dominates the dream.

Graph your role.

Now do the same graphing for your most recent dream.

PAST QUESTIONS

Using the 1-5 ratings from above, write down the number for your waking role that best describes the way you were during the following periods of your life: 1 year to 5 years; 6 to 12; 13 to 16; 17 to 21; 22 to 25; 26 to 35; 36 to 45; 46 to 55; 56 to 65+.

Graph your role for each period of your life.

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Now look at the last graph. Notice if your role has changed over the years. Think about what has happened to you, how you have changed.
  • Think about how your parents, your friends, and your culture have determined your role.
  • Are you satisfied with your role in waking?
  • What are three beliefs you have about how you should be in waking?

DREAM MAKER QUESTION

  • What special strengths do you have that you don't use?

DAY NINE: GRAPHING YOUR EXPRESSION

DREAM QUESTIONS

Decide how expressive you are generally in your dreams.

  1. No expression. No outward expression of any type of feeling or thought by you.
  2. Slight. Some expression, but it is relegated to a minor feature.
  3. Moderate. Definite, but not striking expression.
  4. Strong. Expression takes preference over all your other activities, but does not dominate the dreams.
  5. Intense. Prolonged and complete expression of feeling.
  6. Expression dominates dreams, even in the face of obstacles.

Graph your expression.

Now follow the same graphing for your most recent dream.

PAST QUESTIONS

Rate your expression - write down the number for your expression that best describes the way you were during the following periods of your life: 1 year to 5 years; 6 to 12; 13 to 16; 17 to 21; 22 to 25; 26 to 35; 36 to 45; 46 to 55; 56 to 65+.

Graph your expression for each period of your life.

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Notice if your expression has changed over the years. Think about what has happened to you, how you have changed.
  • Think about how your parents, your friends ,and your culture have determined your expression.
  • Are you satisfied with your expression in waking?
  • List what type of expression were okay as you were growing up and what kinds were frowned upon.

DREAM MAKER QUESTION

Do you notice when other people really want to express more but hold back? What do you think when you see them do it?


DAY TEN: GRAPHING YOUR FEELING LEVEL

DREAM QUESTIONS

Decide how much feeling you generally have in your dreams.

  1. No feeling. Your dreams are about things or events that remain neutral.
  2. Slight. Your dream evokes some feeling that is not vague, but the feeling does not dominate or even greatly influence your dreams.
  3. Moderate. Definite, but not striking expression.
  4. Strong. Your dreams contain definite feeling, more than is usually evident in normal waking life; but the feeling does not dominate.
  5. ntense. The feeling overrides all else in the dream. You are aware that you are feeling and allow it fully to occur.

Graph your general dream feeling level.

Now graph your feeling level in your most recent dream.

PAST QUESTIONS

Rate your feeling - write down the number for your feeling level that best describes the way you were during the following periods of your life: 1 year to 5 years; 6 to 12; 13 to 16; 17 to 21; 22 to 25; 26 to 35; 36 to 45; 46 to 55; 56 to 65+.

Graph your feeling level for each period of your life.

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Notice if your feeling level has changed over the years. Think about what happened to you, how you have changed.
  • Think about how your parents, your friends, and your culture have determined your feeling level.
  • Are you satisfied with your feeling level in waking?
  • What kinds of feeling were okay for you as a child?
  • What kinds of feelings were not tolerated?

DAY ELEVEN: GRAPHING YOUR CLARITY

DREAM QUESTIONS

Decide how much clarity you have in your dreams.

  1. Completely confused. Your dream pictures are incoherent.
  2. Events and feelings have no relationship.
  3. Unclear and Indirect. There is much distortion in your dreams, although it does not completely obscure the dream pictures.
  4. Somewhat clear and direct. You have a general idea of what is going on in the dreams, even though some elements may be distorted.
  5. Clear and direct. Your pictures are clear and direct but not complete.
  6. Completely clear and direct. Your feelings and actions are totally clear and direct. There is no distortion.

Graph your general clarity.

Now graph your most recent dream.

PAST QUESTIONS

Rate your clarity - write down the number for your clarity that best describes the way you were during the following periods of your life: 1 year to 5 years; 6 to 12; 13 to 16; 17 to 21; 22 to 25; 26 to 35; 36 to 45; 46 to 55; 56 to 65+.

Graph your clarity for each period in your life.

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Notice if your clarity has changed over the years. Think about what happened to you, how you have changed.
  • Think about how your parents, your friends, and your culture have determined your level of clarity.
  • Are you satisfied with your level of clarity in waking?

DREAM MAKER QUESTION

  • What would you be like if you attained or experienced Satori or a Breakthru experience?

DAY TWELVE

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Graph today's dream and yesterday's waking for all four components: Role, Expression, Feeling, Clarity. Use X for dream, O for waking.
  • Notice which is your greatest strength.
  • Do you depend on it very often?
  • How would you change if you developed other Dream Maker processes and your waking processes?
  • Do you see any parallels between your Dream Maker processes and your waking processes?

DAY THIRTEEN

QUESTIONS

  • Graph a waking experience for all four components.
  • Think about someone you really like. What are their processes like? How would they need to change to become more balanced?

DAY FOURTEEN

QUESTIONS

  • Graph your dream life and waking life for all four processes. Use an X for the dream and an O for the waking experience.
  • Exercise: Allow your strongest Dream Maker Process to become even stronger today. Identify and experience it in waking.


WEEK THREE


DAY FIFTEEN: ROLE

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Are you satisfied with your role in this dream?
  • What would have to happen in this dream so that you could be
  • totally satisfied with your role in this dream?
  • What is your main role in this dream?
  • How do you keep your role incomplete?
  • What would you have to do to complete it?
  • Does you role in this dream work for you or against you?
  • How would you have to change your role to make this a Breakthru Dream?
  • Rate your role level in this dream. What would it be like if you took one higher? One lower?
  • List all your fears of what would happen if you raised your role to a Breakthru level.

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Try to change your role today. As you notice your role, lessen it a little and then increase it. Try this out all day long.

DAY SIXTEEN: EXPRESSION

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Are you satisfied with your expression in this dream?
  • What would have to happen in this dream so that you would be totally satisfied with your expression?
  • What is your main expression in this dream?
  • How do you keep your expression incomplete?
  • What would you have to do to complete it?
  • How would you have to change your expression to make this a Breakthru Dream?
  • Does the expression in this dream work for you or against you?
  • Rate your expression level in this dream. What would it be like if you took it one higher? One lower?

DREAM MAKER QUESTION

  • What good things would happen if you began to express using your Dream Maker *Potential*?

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • On Day Sixteen you learned more about expression. Now we want you combine Days Fifteen and Sixteen and try to match your role and your level of expression all day long. When you are passive, let your expression go way down; when you are active let your
  • expression increase.

DAY SEVENTEEN

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Are you satisfied with your feeling level in this dream?
  • What would have to happen in this dream so that you would be totally satisfied with your feeling level?
  • What is your main feeling in this dream?
  • How do you keep your feeling incomplete?
  • What would you have to do to complete it?
  • How would you have to change your feeling level to make this a Breakthru Dream?
  • Does the feeling in this dream work for you or against you?
  • Rate your feeling level in this dream. What would it be like if you took it one higher? One lower?

DREAM MAKER QUESTIONS

  • What would happen to your body if you had more feeling?

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • Remember Day Sixteen's waking experience. Repeat it, but add a third Dream Maker process. This time try to match your waking feeling with your role and expression. Pretend you are a very fine guitar that needs to be tuned. Be aware all day long how often your role, feeling, and expression go out of tune with each other.

DAY EIGHTEEN: CLARITY

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Are you satisfied with your clarity in this dream?
  • What would have to happen in this dream so that you would be totally satisfied with your clarity?
  • What are you most clear about in this dream?
  • How do you keep yourself confused?
  • What would you have to do to be completely clear?
  • How would you have to change your clarity to make this a Breakthru Dream?
  • Does the clarity in this dream work for you or against you?
  • Rate your clarity level in this dream. What would it be like if you took it one higher?

DREAM MAKER QUESTION

  • What would happen to all your problems if you became very clear?

DAY NINETEEN: ALL THE DYNAMICS

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • Rate all four processes for your dream.
  • Imagine redreaming the dream. Increase all the dynamics by one level.
  • Would that increase your satisfaction?
  • Would that change the way you feel about yourself?

WAKING QUESTIONS

  • How would it affect your waking life if you changed each one of the four components?
  • What are your fears of what would happen?
  • What good things do you think would happen?
  • What problems would be solved?

DREAM MAKER QUESTIONS

  • Try to live for three minutes today with more feeling, role, expression, and clarity - all at a matched level.

DAY TWENTY

DREAM QUESTIONS

  • List the twenty main words you could use to describe what is happening in your dream. Reduce that to ten, then to five, then to three, then to two, then to one. That single word is your Dream Maker word. Live from your Dream Maker word all through the day.

DAY TWENTY-ONE: MAINTAINING THE CHANGES

Your dreams have certainly begun to change already. Here is a series of questions you can use to maintain the change.

  • How did this dream feel to you?
  • How did you like the way you were expressing?
  • How did you like the role you had in this dream?
  • How did you like the clarity in this dream?
  • How did you like your feeling level in this dream?
  • Are you giving equal attention to all four of the Dream Maker components?
  • What is this dream trying to tell you about your waking life?
  • What is this dream trying to tell you about your future?
  • How can you change these processes so that the picture works for you?