The CREEl process provides simple, powerful tools for transforming tension and conflict into opportunities for personal and professional growth.   The process is fast and objective. The advantage of this method over subjective techniques is that it provides for a non-judgmental, self-interpretive and safe consideration of issues.  It is possible to gain continuous benefit from dreams.

Additionally, the CREEI process does not require an intimate understanding of psychology and much is gained from writing the dream down, giving it a CREEI score, writing a three stanza poem and interviewing an aspect or specific image in the dream.  As one becomes aware of the unconscious forces that drive our waking life, an accomadation is made, almost automatically between the conscious and unconscious making life more enjoyable.  The tension between the unconscious and conscious often subsides with this awareness.

If one is inclined to continue examining the dream with additional tools, it is helpfully to do so in the company of someone knowlegable in the Jungian approach to dream analysis of one of its several derivatives, this section will be of assistance.  This section of the CREEI web site looks more deeply into the process of Associations and Amplifications and moves on to a closer look at active imagination.

According to James A. Hall, M.D., There are three major steps in the Jungian approach to dream interpretation:

1. a clear understanding of the exact details of the dream;
2. the gathering of associations and amplifications in pro­gressive order on one or more of three levels:
   • personal
   • cultural and
   • archetypal
3. the placing of the amplified dream in the context of the dreamer's life situation and process of individuation.

There are, as already pointed out, many non‑interpretive uses of dreams‑such as gestalt enactments of the various dream motifs‑which may lead to an understanding of the complexes symbolized in the dream, but these do not necessarily illumi nate the meaning of the dream itself, which must always be viewed against the backdrop of the dreamer's life.  (James Hall, 1983, p. 34)

However, there is another step used by Jung to bring about change in the tension between conscious and unconscious.  That step is active imagination.