Acting Your Dreams: Using Acting Techniques to Interpret Your Dreams Read Online Free PDF

myself.
     
    Action—Active:
    Here the
characters of your Dreamplay are making deliberate choices in regard to the
situation as it happens rather than letting the situation determine their
actions. Another word for Active Action could be Pro-Active. Someone who lives
by the creed “be prepared” is also working under the Active Action unit. In the
Batman movies, you could say that Batman and the villains are using Active
Action unit, and the victims are usually using the Passive Action Unit.
     
    Action—Passive:
    The characters
of the Dreamplay are reacting to what is happening to, and around them rather
than taking a deliberate action. Inaction also falls into this category. This
is the person standing on the street yelling, “Superman, help us!”
     
    Action—Automatic
(Subconscious):
    The actions of
the Dreamplay’s characters are natural or automatic and they do not think about
them. This is very much affected by the dreamer’s personality. If you are a
proactive person, then you will automatically act to prevent a crisis and may
not think twice about it. If you are a reactive person, the same is true. You
will automatically react to something—and maybe even feel victimized by it.
     
    Action—Deliberate
(Conscious):
    The Dreamplay
character's actions are either deliberate actions to help them achieve a goal,
cope with a situation, or respond to another action in a manner that would
differ from their usual response. Deliberate action will not be actions that a
character would normally take in a given situation, and therefore, must be
thought out or planned… “deliberately.” This often happens when a character is
in a situation they have never been in before.
     
    I’ve given you
these three units of action here but it’s not necessary that you record each
type of action. In the case of the Dreamplay it may even bog down the analysis.
But you may find that you’re consistently dreaming dreams where you can do
nothing but react to crisis, and your dream is trying to tell you to create
some new Automatic actions. What I want to show you here is how action works.
By understanding passive and active action you can understand how your
Dreamwright sees your ability to act.
     
    A classic
example in a dream is an attempt from the dreamer to get help from another dream
character. Once in a while you’ll find yourself in trouble and call out for
help only to get nothing. The dream character you call out to responds with a
shrug, refuses help outright, or completely ignores you. This can be a
significant unit of action. Your Dreamwright may be making a comment on what it
sees as your ability to act—particularly to engage help.
     
    In this dream
we’ll look at action in general, and we may take note of the form of action
too. Here is what the dream looks like described as a series of actions. Again,
we are looking at these actions in the present tense as if they’re happening
now.
     
    —Bond—Speeding
down the road
    —Bond—Jumping
into the water
    —Ben—Standing
by the side of the road.
    —Dump
truck—Screeching to a halt
    —Ben—Sitting at
a table
    —Ben—Filling
out a form
    —Bond—Speaking—Asking
me if I’m going to the store
    —Bond—Talking
in code
    —Ben—Ascertaining
that Bond is talking in code
    —Ben—Responding
back in code
    —Ben—Speaking—Yes
I am
    —Bond—Speaking—Asking
me if I would pick something up for him
    —Ben—Agreeing
to pick up something from the store
    —Bond—Handing
me a white, laminated, 3x5 card
    —Bond—Thinking
better of that
    —Bond—Handing
me another card with the red visor
    —Ben—Ascertaining
again that Bond is speaking in Code
    —Ben—Keeping to
the code
    —Ben—Acknowledging
my receipt of the card
    —Ben—Speaking—A
package of Marlboro Reds
    —Ben—Pulling
the red visor down so I can read the code
    —Ben—Reading
the code back to Bond
    —Ben—Making up
sentences that start with each new word of the code
    —Ben