{"value"=>"<p> <span class=\"title\">Dream, Dance and Myth.</span></p> <p>This paper shows how dreams, the world of the unconscious, can be brought to conscious awareness through movement and myth.</p> <p>The literature review includes different theories and methods of dreamwork. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology, discovered that dreams belonged to the unconscious. He viewed dreams as an expression of wish fulfillment and repressed sexuality. Carl Jung provided a more universal way of perceiving the world by introducing the “collective unconscious” wherein existed the world of archetypes, symbols, and personality types. Jung's theory of archetypal psychology is further expanded on by theorists using a feminist perspective and process work, who draw on the relationship between body symptoms and dreams. Dance therapists integrated Jung's “active imagination” into dance therapy as a way of facilitating the process of individuation. Psycho-dramatists used psychodrama to reenact real life situations as an active form of therapy to release emotions and create a catharsis. Dreamwork methods are used by theorists working with groups and individuals as a way of working with dreams without a professional facilitator.</p> <p>Given what I have learned from various theorists and my knowledge of dance therapy, I established a small dream group. I combined different theories and methods in an experiment to find out what does and what does not work when “moving the dream.” The techniques are borrowed from Ullman, Faraday, Moreno, and Perls but the perspective is predominantly Jungian. The purpose of this case study was to find out how the enactment of dreams can lead to further self-awareness.</p> <p>The methodology includes a total of five dream enactments. The group consisted of three second-year students from the graduate dance/movement therapy program at Hunter College. One participant is the dreamer (myself) the other two are participants in the enactments. Materials consisted of a tape recorder and a dream journal. We met on five occasions in a classroom. We set no time limit; however, each session lasted from one to two hours.</p> <p>Moving the dream helped to increase my insight. Recreating the dream images enabled me to connect my inner life to my outer existence. The dream images, gestures, and posturing stirred up feelings that might have stayed dormant. Myth used in conjunction with interpreting the dream enactments helped to validate my experiences and bring them to a more universal level of understanding</p>"}