ABSTRACT

Consciousness is multidimensional and dreams come to us from these different levels of consciousness which form the vertical axis of our "inner landscape". The level of consciousness we start to access at the first stage of the process is that of the Gross Mental Plane where our subjective, inner life is dominated by our worldly orientation and instinctual nature. The tendency of the lower mind in dreams is to concretise aspects of our inner reality, which take the form of worldly metaphors indicating our attitude and mood state. Dreamwork from a multidimensional perspective is based on the understanding that it is our guiding spirit that is hinting to us, through metaphors, and sometimes even directly, as to the nature of our psychological blocks. These blocks are our defence mechanisms and have acted as protection in life, helping us to cope in spite of our wounds, our vulnerabilities and our weaknesses.