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  • INCUBATION CH14.

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    Christiane’s dream or a dream answering a question without incubation

     

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    Hi ! This is Christiane, the author of the blog.

    A dream came to visit me last night. In the morning it offered its pearls of dew on the meadow of my memory.

    At dawn, I wandered barefoot in the grass, I gathered the fresh liqueur of its images and I savored it.

     

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    To day, I would like to share it with you.

    My dream 

    I am on the mountain sitting on the ground, alone by the side of a dirt road.  I am looking at the scenery, the mountains, the wide valley, the cloudless sky.  All is green and peaceful.

     

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    I hear someone singing in the sky.  He’s not heard much but he’s heard. He sings for the whole valley and the mountain.  He sings Bach or Mozart.

    He’s a young man, a soldier dressed in green.  He’s sitting on something, suspended to something that we don’t see, that we don’t hear. This way he moves forward over the valley between the mountains.  It’s very surprising, it draws attention, it’s beautiful, it doesn’t impose itself but once seen, once heard, it is unforgettable.

    And these last words fill me with gentle, serene joy.

     

     

    Interpretation

    I am on the mountain sitting on the ground, alone by the side of a dirt road.

    The mountain :

    for me, life on the mountain can be very harsh, but the beauty of nature affords daily wonderment.

     

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    The mountain is green, covered with grass.

     For me, grass represents dreams, as it renews itself permanently, naturally.

     

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    Does this description mean anything to me, what does it  remind me of?

    This image corresponds exactly to my daily life which is not always easy, but I’m filled with wonder when I see “Nature’s know how”.  So this image adequately describes my everyday life devoted to inner life and dreams.

     

    Sitting on the ground, alone by the side of a dirt road.

    I am quite alone in this study of dreams and  I pause by the roadside, I rest a while along my path.

     

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    I am looking at the scenery

    The dream invites me to look at my life dedicated to dreams, so that I become more conscious of it. Why am I invited to look around and  let my eyes wander ?

    Since dreams often make comments about the day before, I ask myself :

    - What happened yesterday that the dream wants me to see ?

    Surely the sight before my eyes  must reveal it.

    What does this remind me of in view of my dedication to the study of dreams?... I don’t know.

     

    I hear someone singing in the sky.  He’s a young man, a soldier dressed in green.

    A young man :

    is dynamic way to affirm oneself in life.  He is capable of undertaking enterprises to which he will devote most of his energy.

    A soldier :

    for me is a courageous man, willing to give up his own life to defend freedom, as so many French and foreign soldiers did in the last two world wars to liberate France, my country.

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    He wears a uniform, he belongs to an order he has chosen, he doesn’t allow himself to go astray and he abides by a certain discipline.

     Dressed in green : 

    For me it’s the color of the forest, of the unconscious.  This green is also the color that doctors wear in the operating room. With this detail the dream indicates that this singing soldier is practicing a therapeutic activity.

     

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     Using the interview method, I ask myself :

    - What does all this description remind me of, in my interior or my exterior world, at this time in a life dedicated to dreams?  That man is myself, I know that I am a soldier in the army of dreams, fighting for inner freedom. For years my dreams have repeatedly told me so.  The unconscious is the victim of so much disorder, abuse and violence, we massacre so many facets of ourselves by excluding them from our lives. All racist crimes, all genocides, all cruelty against animals in the exterior world are first committed in our interior world, within ourselves, by ourselves, on ourselves and our instincts, and consequently they happen in the outer world.

    That is what the soldier in the army of dreams, the interpreter, is battling against. 

    Yes, the dream interpreter is truly a soldier who defends the freedom of each individual’s inner world, the unconscious, which is so ignored, repressed and denied ;  Truly in this way the interpret is creating freedom and peace in the outer world.

    So this dream is talking about me, it is asking me to become aware of what I’m doing.

     The soldier sings, he sings Bach or Mozart

    From the point of view of the dream, when I express myself, it’s a song from within that comes up and I’m astonished at being told by the dreams that I’m singing Bach or Mozart.  Yes, it’s true I am singing a sacred song when I interpret a dream.

     

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    He’s not heard much but he’s heard.  He sings for the whole valley and the mountain.

    The dream underlines that my words are not heard much but still that doesn’t keep me from singing.

     

    The soldier is sitting on something, hanging from something that we don’t see, that we don’t hear. This way he moves forward over the valley between the mountains.

    What is it that the dream wants to express when it puts me in such a position ?

     

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     Where do I find myself like that, in the air, in an immaterial realm singing for the whole mountain and the whole valley, singing without knowing who can hear me ? Oh ! It’s on my blog !                                                                                                                                                                                                 My dream is talking to me about my work on my blog !                                                                                          Such a thoughtful attention !  It brings tears to my eyes.

    Now I understand : yesterday I was asking myself all kinds of questions :                                                                                                                                                                                  - Do the interventions on my blog serve any purpose ?                                                                                                         - - Is all the work I do with dreams useful ?                                                                                                            - Is it adequate to say that dreams are the expression of the divine in every one of us, as I have shown in ch.10 with the dream of the cat in the café, and in ch.11 with Sylvia’s dream? 

     

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                                                                                                                                                                                                - -Won’t I scare away those who do not want to hear about divinity in man ? - Isn’t this the best way to turn them away from dreams? 

    - Is my tone appropriate?

     Answering all my questions, my doubts, my worries, the dream came to reassure me, to let me know what it thinks of my blog :

    It’s very surprising, it draws attention, it’s beautiful, it doesn’t impose itself but once you discover it, you hear it and it remains with you.

    The dream left me with those last words, filling me with profound joy and serenity.

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    Dew by Eric Geinrnaert; eric.ambre.jaune@hotmail.fr

    Music in the operating room; www.medson.net/recherche.html

    Michael Chance interprets the Passion according to Mathew by Bach

     

     

     

  • WHO IS CHRISTIANE

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    Hi !

    I am Christiane.

     

    I am a teacher by profession. Dreams are my passion, interpreting them is my pleasure and teaching the art of interpreting them is my vocation.

    I spent forty years of my life as a teacher in the Education Nationale. I taught two languages, French and German in France and abroad.

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    Meanwhile I also learnt to understand and teach the language of dreams.

     

    It first began in 1976, while teaching in Tahiti.

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    I started to study dreams on my own, guided by  books from the Edgar Cayce Foundation, the A R E, where Scott Sparrow, now an IASD Board Member, was involved in researching and writing about dreams. Thanks to this support I acquired a solid base.

     

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    This link with the ARE was precious to me, when later on in Turkey (1978-1982) I continued, still alone, to try to understand my dreams.

       

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    Nobody in my surroundings understood my passion for dreams and  they even told me I was crazy. For your information, it is a sad fact that since Napoleon's time until 1992, dream interpretation was forbidden by a law in France.

     

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    From 1982 to 1987, in Berlin, Germany, I studied at the Gestalt Therapy School and at the Freudian School of Psychoanalysis.  Then I discovered the “ dream interview method” created by Gayle Delaney. I immediately adopted this efficient tool.

     

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    dreams, dream interpretation, Christiane Riedel,Judit Saint Laurent,Mark Thurston,Scott Sparrow,Gayle Delaney,Jung,Etienne Perrot,In 1985, I started reading Jung. Then came a dream which showed me a man whom I knew only by name : Etienne Perrot. The dream advised me to work with him. In my search for information about him, I discovered that he was Jung’s spiritual son and translator in France. I worked with him for five years. By analyzing my dreams he transmitted Jung’s spirit to me and lead me to understand the alchemy process.  

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    In 1987, having come back to France, I pursued my teaching career. At the same time I began to transmit what I had learned and I set up dream study groups.

     

    In 1991, I founded an association called "Dreams to Live By," which in 2004 became the Academy for the Interpretation of Dreams. Since then I have  continuously been teaching dream interpretation in very small groups, where every one can practice. I also held seminars on symbols. I give interpretations in person over the phone or through Skype.

     

    In 1994 a dream ordered me to write a book. And so, in 1996, twenty years after my first steps in the dream world, "Rêves à Vivre" (Dreams to Live By) was published. This book is a practical and spiritual manual for dream interpretation.

    Then ten years later I wrote "Amour et Sexe dans vos Rêves" (Love and Sex in your Dreams), in which I write about what dreams say about love and their explanations about the sacred path of sexuality.

     

     

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    In 2007 I started a blog to give the French public the opportunity to recognize the value of dreams, and the means to understand them.

    Lately my Canadian student Judith Saint Laurent has agreed to translate the essays of my French blog into English.

     

      

     

    Throughout these years I developed additional activities :

    the medias contact me from time to time for newspaper articles and radio and television interviews.

    I have just started a dream salon in a small hotel in my neighbourhood, where anyone can come to talk and learn about dreams. Also I often give conferences in France and abroad.

     

    Now a member of IASD,(International Association for the Study of Dreams) it brings me great joy to have the opportunity to exchange with researchers who are exploring and promoting the realm of dreams.

     

     

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    I thank the artists and photographers whose work permit me to illustrate our blog.

     

    1968- 1972 : The first high school where I began to teach with pupils almost as old as me.

    Tahiti, 1972-1978, where Elsie Sechrist, ARE International Representative who helped me discover  dreams and their interpretation. pressetahiti.com

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    Working during the week in Paul Gauguin high school in Papeete, Tahiti,

    The ARE,  the Edgar Cayce Foundation

    How to interpret your dreams, practical techniques based on the Edgar Cayce readings, by Mark Thurston, ed. ARE.

    In Turkey, in Istanbul 1978-1982.

    The great basilica Hagia Sophie, built in 325 after J.-C., now a museum.

    The dream sanctuary in Pergame.

    In Berlin : 1982-1987.

    Living your dreams by Gayle Delaney, ed. Harper and Row. I discovered Delaney’s interview method in the ASD Monthly News vol.1 nb.3., 1984, in an article where Gayle Delaney explained it.

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    Etienne Perrot and his wife, who both have dedicated their lifes to  dreams and the path of alchemy, that Jung had rediscovered and explained.

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    "Rêves à Vivre", a practical and spiritual manual to dream interpretation by Christiane Riedel, ed. de Mortagne, 1995

    "Amour et Sexe dans vos Rêves"  Book by Christiane Riedel, ed. Trajectoire, 2006

    Judith Saint-Laurent, my Canadian translator.

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    Site : http://www.christiane-riedel.fr

    French blog : christiane-riedel.blogspirit.com