ABSTRACT
Dreams are the result of a special kind of mental ‘digestion’ of excessively threatening and/or exciting emotions. It is an adaptive system, functional and natural for humans like the process of breathing oxygen. Dreamtelling also makes it potentially possible to find partners who could co-operate. Dreams send powerful conscious and unconscious messages which influence the dreamer’s relation with the audience. Dreamtelling is also more than merely a tool for the elaboration of excessive emotions, but the creation of relations and partnerships and their transformation. This alone makes dreamtelling a fascinating and complex interpersonal event. Working with dreams does not need magical endowment or witchcraft. It can be learned. As a rule, when there is a container, dreams are better remembered and shared. In fact, dreamtelling works in a way that promotes identification processes with the dreamer, and can be considered to be a model for group-analytic work.
