Chapter 03

Note (b)

Understanding How to Answer the CREEI Process Twelve Questions

Now that youÕve answered two of the twelve CREEI questions, letÕs take a little break and discuss some distinctive aspects of the process you are experiencing and how it may impact the answers you give.

 

A helpful technique in deciding if your answer to a question is objective and free of bias is to ask yourself, ÒIf someone else had my dream or if I were to relate my dream to another person, would that person give the same answer to the CREEI question as I did?  If so, the CREEI questions are being answered as intended.  Because the CREEI process is objective rather than subjective, anyone having the same dream, or hearing the dream told, should give the same answer as the dreamer.  This little aspect about the CREEI process, its reproducibility by holding back the initial tendency to judge and interpret is what makes it such a powerful tool in transforming oneÕs life.

 

There are many schools of dream work including those based on Jungian and Freudian psychology.  While dream-work using these systems can be helpful, they require a significant amount of knowledge.  For instance, the Jungian system requires understanding of the many myths of the world, alchemical literature and other interesting but arcane knowledge.  Further, both Jung and Freud require the listener to analyze and interpret the dream without first objectifying the dream, making dream analysis and interpretation subjective.  This means that it is possible, even probable that the conscious biases of the dream listener will be part of the process.  The initial phase of the CREEI Dream Process is objective and leaves it to the dreamer in the second two phases of the CREEI Dream Process to both analyze and interpret his or her dream.  The CREEI Dream Process allows anyone to effectively analyze and then interpret his or her own dreams.  It also makes dream analysis and interpretation available to those who may otherwise not be in a position to afford a licensed psychoanalyst

 

Just remember, by understanding and employing the three phases of the CREEI Dream Process, you will have ample opportunity to analyze and interpret your own dream to bring about the changes that would be meaningful in your life.

 

The CREEI Dream Process teaches you how to use active imagination and the Òaha" experience to analyze and interpret your dreams.  Active imagination opens pathways to the unconscious, the source of dreams, and begins analyzing the dream to bring possible meanings of the dream to conscious awareness.  You will then have an opportunity to interpret your dream using the Òaha" experience to select the most useful meaning between the many possible meanings of the dream.  Although remaining non-judgmental may sound difficult and the process may seem complicated now, analyzing dreams using the CREEI Dream Process is simple, takes little time and is more powerful that many other dream interpretation processes.  For those interested in pursuing their dreams into deeper recesses of the unconscious, the CREEI web site offers additional resources, but these techniques are labor intensive, time consuming and rarely as powerful and productive as sticking with the basic CREEI Dream Process.

 

Now let's move on in answering the remainder of the twelve CREEI questions.