As promised, I’m telling you about my personal experience of working with dreams. I have been interested in dreams for a long time. For as long as I can remember, I have always had a lot of dreams, some of them repetitive. At some point, I began to study methods of working with dreams. I think this was before I started studying psychology. Over time, my ways of working with dreams have undergone a transformation. In this article I will talk about how I interact with my dreams now. If I had an interesting, vivid dream, I usually record it on a voice recorder. In principle, to remember the dream, all I need to do is replay it in your mind again immediately after waking up. But there is one trap here - I can fall asleep again in the process))) There is another advantage in recording a dream on a voice recorder, and not just memorizing it. Sometimes the message of a dream is revealed as I voice it. Surely you also noticed this effect when you told someone your dream. Thanks to extensive experience in personal therapy in a processual and body-oriented approach, I have a well-developed connection between body and mind. Therefore, if during my retelling of a dream I utter some key phrase that carries the message of the dream, my body lets me know about it. Usually, these are goosebumps) To clarify, I can repeat the phrase again - if I again received positive confirmation from the body, then there is no doubt. The important point is that you need to tell your dream in the present tense. It's like it's happening now. It is advisable to close your eyes, relax and plunge into a light trance. Also, during the course of the story, I often voice my insights regarding what this or that dream episode means, and also receive feedback from the body. If, after I recounted my dream, there is something left that is not clear to me or something... something that I want to continue working with (for example, using the method that I talked about in the last article about dreams), then I then return to it on the same day. It is also useful to listen to the recording immediately or later - you can catch something new. I will give an example of how I worked with my dream. One day I dreamed of dying kittens. It was a long dream with an interesting plot. The main element of the dream that caught my attention and evoked the most feelings were these kittens. Let me remind you that in the procedural approach we pay attention to the most interesting, unusual, attractive or, conversely, repulsive figure in the dream. Thanks to long-term experience working with my dreams, I already know that kittens (and other small cute creatures) in my personal dictionary of symbols are some of my childhood parts (“inner child”). In fact, we all have, as a rule, many “inner children” and they are different)) By the way, a big mistake in the interpretation of dreams is the use of dream books. Because only the dreamer himself can know what this or that symbol means to him. To learn to understand the language of your unconscious, it is worth keeping a dream diary, where you briefly write down the dream and the feelings and associations associated with it. A dream journal will also help you learn to distinguish between the types of dreams that I wrote about earlier. Let's get back to our kittens) When I told this dream to myself, I realized that the dying kittens are a message from my childish part, which I really haven't paid much attention to lately. The first part of the message was that this part of me was suffering and losing strength, “dying.” Later, while working with this dream, I tried on the role of these kittens. This is exactly how procedural psychology recommends working with dreams. I remember that I had some internal resistance to do this. Well, not the most attractive role. But I still decided to enter it. And what do you think it's like to be dying kittens? In my dream, the kittens slowly opened and closed their eyes. When I started doing this, I started having involuntary muscle contractions -".