ABSTRACT
Dreams provide a source of relational intelligence. Dreams provide healing insights about our relationships with spouses, children, parents, and friends. The couple in the dream was a symbol of the coniunctio, the sacred marriage. Dreams often bring into focus a personal ideal, aspiration, or a central life task. Small details of a dream often open up significant feelings and memories. Dreamwork is a potent practice for couples, allowing partners to recognize feelings and perceptions from each other's unconscious. Dreams portray our basic structures of object relations, internalized patterns of relating to others that are formed in childhood and often re-enacted in adult relationships. Dreams help us understand how our adult relationships are influenced by our early relationships with parents or caregivers. Dreams help us understand how our adult relationships are influenced by our early relationships with parents or caregive.
