On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
s. sellonge
s. sellonge Quick Facts
Sellonge has reported a pilot study concerning dreams. He has pointed out how feelings in dreams rerun preconscious feelings of recent life. This perspective has made him pay attention to the preconscious life and he has successfully experienced how taking into account the preconscious level can be beneficial for education and management.
All of this – including therapeutic issues – is to be developed. Unfortunately, financial limitations drastically slow the research.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from s. sellonge
Dreams are not only thoughts and mental images experienced during sleep. Each dream is full of more or less notable feelings (such as anxiety, enthusiasm, disappointment, satisfaction…) and physical sensations (such as pains, pleasures…). Even when someone dreams he stops, for instance, is actually experiencing a background sensation of turning a feeling of movement into a feeling of immobility.
These feelings rerun recent real-life preconscious feelings.
2 successive feelings experienced in a dream is a reoccurrence of 2 successive recent real-life preconscious feelings. So a sequence of dreamt feelings – i.e. a dream – rerun a preconscious real-life sequence.
Preconscious feelings are typical: they can be introspected but they don’t reach the conscious level to which we are accustomed. When someone speaks about careers, for instance, it may happen that some people allude to any professional events of theirs and, then, are caught by dim feelings or intense flashes of euphoria, anguish, regrets… If their attention keeps caring to the talk, these feelings won’t be noticed; they keep staying at the preconscious level. The notion of "preconscious" is not easy to get. One can be embarrassed with that notion until he has experienced what this notion stands for.
Regarding the symbolism, we use a relationship in which a dreamt-image is linked to a real-life thing through the similarity of the accompanying feelings.
Translations of dreams have made us recognize and differentiate 2 psychological processes depending on where dreams run. The psychological process which is converted into dreams which run inside (such as inside a room, a house, an underground passage... in those situations we feel confined) is called “introversion”. The “extroversion” is the psychological process which is converted into an outside dreamt-story (here, we feel it more open). That’s an example of how studies of dreams may help in theorization of psychology. Indeed, the question “how is the psychological field according to the generator of dreams?” could be a very fertile one.
