Comments on: #204 – Nightmares As A Tool for Personal Growth with Anne Hill http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/04/18/204-nightmares-as-a-tool-for-personal-growth-with-anne-hill/ All the psychology you need to know and just enough to make you dangerous Thu, 17 May 2012 02:34:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Reinhard, Austria http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/04/18/204-nightmares-as-a-tool-for-personal-growth-with-anne-hill/comment-page-1/#comment-3075 Reinhard, Austria Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:08:47 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=306#comment-3075 This has to be my favorite SRR show about dreams. I always felt that especially nightmares are one of the most meaningful dreams because they are loaded with such an emotional impact. It's like your soul is screaming at you because you haven't listened to it for such a long time and because you haven't catched the more subtle clues now and then. A fascinating book that deals with this kind of dreams (the "big" dreams) ist "Healing Dreams" by Marc Ian Barasch. It's very enjoyable, sometimes even kind of poetic. And Barasch deals with dream interpretation from every possible angle you could imagine. Definitive worth a read. It's not so much a dry "facts book" but much more like a narrative exploration, check it out. Reinhard from Austria This has to be my favorite SRR show about dreams. I always felt that especially nightmares are one of the most meaningful dreams because they are loaded with such an emotional impact. It’s like your soul is screaming at you because you haven’t listened to it for such a long time and because you haven’t catched the more subtle clues now and then.

A fascinating book that deals with this kind of dreams (the “big” dreams) ist “Healing Dreams” by Marc Ian Barasch. It’s very enjoyable, sometimes even kind of poetic. And Barasch deals with dream interpretation from every possible angle you could imagine.

Definitive worth a read. It’s not so much a dry “facts book” but much more like a narrative exploration, check it out.

Reinhard from Austria

]]> By: Lorre http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/04/18/204-nightmares-as-a-tool-for-personal-growth-with-anne-hill/comment-page-1/#comment-1678 Lorre Fri, 08 May 2009 13:34:09 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=306#comment-1678 As I was listening to your interview with Anne Hill and nightmares I couldn't help thinking of something I read by James Hillman. Hillman urged us not to try to force waking logic onto our dreams, because it's so important to us to understand the dreaming mind and it's way of thinking and presenting information. Hillman's idea was that we should try to recall all that's in a dream and probe more into what is really there rather than try to build a waking logic interpretation of what we recall. I've never heard another psychologist say this about dreams and I wonder if he's simply been ignored or discredited for this idea. I think Dr Hill has a wonderful way of dealing with nightmares and practical advice, but I still wonder if trying to take the dream and turn it metaphorically into something else is more powerful than trying to understand our dreaming mind as a whole, and understand it as a different world rather than trying to understand it as we would the waking world. So I'm wondering what you think of Hillman's ideas about dreams and working with our dreams or if you might be able to have a show that discusses Hillman's ideas in this regard. As I was listening to your interview with Anne Hill and nightmares I couldn’t help thinking of something I read by James Hillman. Hillman urged us not to try to force waking logic onto our dreams, because it’s so important to us to understand the dreaming mind and it’s way of thinking and presenting information. Hillman’s idea was that we should try to recall all that’s in a dream and probe more into what is really there rather than try to build a waking logic interpretation of what we recall. I’ve never heard another psychologist say this about dreams and I wonder if he’s simply been ignored or discredited for this idea.

I think Dr Hill has a wonderful way of dealing with nightmares and practical advice, but I still wonder if trying to take the dream and turn it metaphorically into something else is more powerful than trying to understand our dreaming mind as a whole, and understand it as a different world rather than trying to understand it as we would the waking world.

So I’m wondering what you think of Hillman’s ideas about dreams and working with our dreams or if you might be able to have a show that discusses Hillman’s ideas in this regard.

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