Describe waking behavior and personality. What kinds of things annoy her?
Describe what may be in person's unconscious (complexes, "issues", etc). Power, affection, abandonment, etc... Look in Ch. 15 at Freud's "Development of Personality" section for examples of issues related to developmental stages.
Create latent thoughts (messages from the Id) that relate to the issues. 1 or 2 at most.
Create many images related to each latent thought.
Condense and displace. The goal is to hide the meaning while maintaining the basic meaning of the latent content (complex).
Pictoral arrangement: choose things that fit into pictures well.
Jung
Describe waking behavior and personality (persona). Who does she see herself as? What adjectives would she describe herself by?
Describe her shadow. What are the complementary, opposite, compensating forces to the persona? What would she definitely reject as descriptions of her?
What time of life is she at? Is it time for a big dream (archetypal)?
Brainstorm images that represent the compensations or archetypes.
Remember: "Every dream has a purpose, not a cause."
Cognitive
Describe waking behavior and personality. What kinds of things does she think about? How does her memory seems to be organized? How imaginative, logical, abstract is her thinking? How does she break down her knowledge of the world? How much does she break things into categories vs. seeing many shades of grey in people and situations that flow from one to the next?
Brainstorm examples that show connections that are most important to her but that blur and distort distinctions she doesn't see as important.
Make connections to seeimingly different images through her way of thinking (e.g. learning style - auditory, kinesthetic, verbal, visual) and that is wacky in other ways -- if she's logical, make a logical but imaginatively strange dream; if she's imaginative, make an imaginative but logically inconsistent dream.
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