206 SelfWork: What Dreams Are Made Of
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Whether or not you believe that dreams have meaning (and almost half of Americans think that’s true…), you probably have had many types of dreams. Today, in another episode sponsored by BetterHelp, we're going to talk about the diverse categories of dreams – and then the proposed “meaning” of those very dreams. We'll look into what can bring nightmares on as well as the most recent research on what's termed "lucid dreaming." Early psychiatrists certainly believed and espoused that dreams had unconscious meanings – that they are created by the part of our mind that lives in the background of our consciousness but influences and guides us. So today we’ll talk about nine categories of dreams and then travel into the land of what dreams may mean.. maybe for fun or maybe, for those of you who have a strong relationship with your dreams, to employ them for healing.
Our listener email today is from a young woman who’s suffered multiple traumas in her life… sexual abuse and her mother’s dying right in front of her.. Terrible things. And she wonders how to heal.. and if she can have hope..
Importants Links: We have a lot of them today!
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A Psychology Today article on dreaming
Book by Preston Ni.. and referenced article
Quote from Dr. Kelly Bulkeley
Information about the cause of nightmares on WebMD
YouTube video on dreaming
What dreams may mean article in VeryWell Mind
Very recent research at MIT on lucid dreaming
C-PTSD information on VeryWell Mind
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical psychologist |
| 0:35.1 | out of Fayetteville, Arkansas and I'm so glad you're here. I started self-work about |
| 0:39.8 | four years ago, a little more than four years now, because I wanted to try to dispel some |
| 0:45.2 | of the stigma around mental illness treatment, wanting to reach out to those of you who might already |
| 0:49.8 | be very comfortable with these kinds of issues. maybe you're in therapy, but to also some of you |
| 0:55.4 | who might have just been diagnosed and you're really kind of scared and not knowing what to do |
| 1:00.2 | and you're looking for answers, but also to those of you who might believe I'd never |
| 1:05.4 | darkened the door of a therapist and yet you're just curious enough to want to listen |
| 1:10.7 | to a podcast like self-work. |
| 1:13.8 | Oprah Winfrey has said, |
| 1:15.8 | the key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success, |
| 1:18.7 | but significance. |
| 1:20.2 | And then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. |
| 1:25.6 | She's of course talking about dreams for your future. |
| 1:28.0 | Many things that you can visualize happening or maybe even dreams for your present, as in this dream come true, or of course more |
| 1:35.4 | tragically this is a living nightmare. |
| 1:38.2 | Because we use these terms, dreams and nightmares to convey the things we're thrilled about but also things that have to be |
| 1:45.2 | tragically lived through. |
| 1:48.0 | So today we're going to talk about the dreaming as in the kind you have when you're sleeping. |
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