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Using Modern Dreamwork to Enhance Therapy - Test
by Linda Y. Schiller, MSW, LICSW

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1. Modern dreamwork today typically involves: Help
A clinician who is well versed in dreamwork who and can tell a client what their dream means.
 Top-down interventions.
 A collaborative venture between the client and the clinician.
 The final correct interpretation resting with the clinician.
2. What does the concept of "dreams bringing us home" mean? Help
Dreams are often about houses.
 Dreams are about our current life or where we live.
 Dreams can provide an internal guidance system to come into relationship with our core self.
 Dreams mirror random neuro-firing of our sleeping brains, and home refers to the map of our brainwaves.
3. The Shadow in dreamwork refers to: Help
The bad or evil parts of ourselves.
 Dreams that occur in a landscape of darkness or night.
 A part of the dream that we should avoid in order to prevent abreaction.
 Parts of ourselves in the dream that are embarrassing, unacceptable, or unknown to our conscious minds.
4. Dreams can provide the dreamer with: Help
A source for creativity.
 Practical information about daily problems.
 A path for healing.
 All of the above
5. The integrated, embodied approach to dreamwork means: Help
We integrate dreamwork with other therapeutic interventions.
 We attend to images, story, emotions, and physical sensations while working with dreams.
 We look primarily to Freud and Jung's work to do dream exploration.
 Each layer of a dream should be addressed with a different method of dreamwork.
6. Exploring symbolism in a dream entails: Help
Understanding that an image in a dream can have multiple layers of association and resonance for the dreamer.
 Needing to find the one true meaning of a symbol or character in a dream to be on the right track.
 Knowing that a dream symbol is usually literal.
 Finding either a universal symbol, or an individual one in the dream but not both.
7. Native American dream traditions include: Help
The idea of Dreamtime as the creation of the world.
 Going up to a high place to have a dream for guidance.
 A separate mystical branch that attends to visions and prophecies.
 A rite of passage known as a vision quest to dream on their true name and life purpose.
8. The functions of dreaming commonly include: Help
Memory consolidation, creative resource, and reactive.
 Telepathy, mind-reading, and channeling.
 Prodromal, probiotic, and way-finding.
 Dreams are best put aside so they don't interfere with our daily functioning.
9. Remembering our dreams is important because: Help
They help us to metabolize the experiences in our life.
 They help us work through difficult emotions and reprocess upsets.
 They can enhance learning.
 All of the above
10. When our clients tell us that they don't dream, what is more accurate is: Help
They are not remembering their dreams.
 They are not writing them down.
 Some people really do not dream.
 They are demonstrating resistance to the therapeutic process.
11. Strong dreaming can refer to: Help
Having vivid dreams.
 Having dreams that can have multiple interpretations.
 Picking up on cues taking place in the outside waking world in ones' dreams.
 Being able to interpret someone else's dream.
12. Depression can negatively affect dream recall because: Help
Dreams are a mirror of our emotional state.
 Depression can cause anhedonia (lack of interest or joy in life.
 Loss effects our ability to have REM sleep.
 Depression can cause our REM sleep to begin too early or too late in our sleep cycle to access the mood-regulating function.
13. Good methods to remember dreams include: Help
Waking up with the alarm clock and getting up quickly.
 Writing in a journal and trying to move as little as possible before recording the dream.
 Being neutral about the importance of a dream, but trying to remember it anyhow.
 Remembering that if you don't catch a full storyline, the dream is probably not worth recording.
14. A real dream can be which of the following: Help
Only when there is a full narrative story line
 When the emotions don't overwhelm the images
 A single phrase or word we recall upon waking
 When we are reminded of something that feels familiar, but we can't place how or why
15. Setting a boundary to contain an overabundance of dreams or a nightmare can include: Help
Surrounding yourself with a bubble of light.
 Telling your partner to wake you if you call out in your sleep.
 Being sure to check that your doors are locked at night.
 Not writing down the bad dreams.
16. Dream incubation in essence is: Help
Keeping a journal of your dreams.
 Taking action steps to make life changes following information received from a dream.
 Sleeping in a sacred space.
 Intentionally asking the universe for answers to questions or dilemmas though a dream.
17. The best way to get a clear answer to your dream incubation query is to: Help
Write out your whole dream in the order you dreamt it.
 Ask a very clear and specific question of your dreaming mind.
 Use purification and pilgrimage to get to your dream.
 Be openhearted.
18. Waking dream states may include: Help
Deja vu.
 Synchronicity.
 Intuition.
 All of the above
19. The essence of nightmares generated from trauma is: Help
Fantastical imagery in dreams.
 Waking up with a start.
 Replaying prior traumas in real or symbolic fashion in our dreams.
 Not remembering the original upset.
20. The fight/flight/freeze response takes place in our brains in the: Help
Prefrontal cortex.
 Limbic system.
 Corpus collosum.
 Medulla.
21. Our brains do not appear to discriminate between waking and sleeping reality because: Help
Our rapid eye movements form a moving picture of the dream.
 Our dreams often reflect strong emotional states.
 Neural brain activity is essentially the same when seeing images in waking life and in dream life.
 Dreams are generated on both sides of the brain.
22. Synchronicity as defined by Jung involves: Help
The experience of two unlikely related events as meaningfully connected.
 Tuning in to our inner wisdom and unexplained gut feelings.
 Several steps to make a connection.
 Daydreaming or spacing out.
23. Using our intuition often involves: Help
Catching our dreams and writing them down.
 Listening to inner and outer promptings in dreams and in waking life and connecting the dots between them.
 Having a spiritual awakening.
 Not interfering with our client's interpretation of their own dream.
24. Three main sources of inquiry to examine within our dreams include: Help
The emotional story, the images and pictures, and the narrative itself.
 The emotional storyline, the dreamer's first impression, the clinician's first impression.
 The images, the pictures, and the colors in a dream.
 What in life we think it is about, the emotions, and what resources they have in their life.

 

 

  
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