ABSTRACT

In this chapter I want to offer the beginning of a charting model of how one can use one’s own dream imagery as a part of one’s research methodology. The focus on this use of dream imagery will be on its possible value as a source of inspiration, suggestion, hypothesis and problemsolving for researchers in the social sciences field. The chapter will illustrate the potential use of dream imagery with reference to a sequence of dream imagery I experienced during fieldwork and how I subsequently related such imagery to my anthropological project. I will propose a charting model for ethnographic dreamwork.