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session, the dreamer simultaneously holds in conscious awareness these differentiated and complex states of embodied feeling and sensation. The act of holding these multiple disparate states at the same time creates a psychical tension from which a completely new image or feeling state spontaneously
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to be not a singular unified whole defined by the ego point of view, but rather a self-organizing multiplicity of autonomous selves. In the technique of embodied imagination, for each of these "selves" or "states" representing various perspectives, the dreamer then feels, identifies, and locates the
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as well any "others" that appear in the dream. These "others" may be, for example, another person, an animal, or a physical object. Approaching dream figures in this way is consistent with archetypal psychologist James Hillman's prescription for therapeutic work in regard to the phenomena of psychic
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The technique of embodied imagination takes dreaming as the paradigm for all work with images. While dreaming, everyone experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space; that is, the dreamer is convinced that he or she is experiencing a real event in a real environment. Bosnak describes how a
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emerges from the dreamer's psyche. This new image or state presents a completely new and previously unknown awareness to the dreamer, one through which the dreamer often feels changed, transformed, or greatly expanded in the ability to embody and feel intensely.
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Once fully immersed in the images that the dream environment presents, the dreamer is then also invited to feel and identify the feelings and sensations manifested in the body from a variety of dream perspectives. Perspectives explored are both that of the dream
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White, Judy and Jill Fischer. Embodied Imagination® in Barrett, Diedre and McNamara, Patrick, editors. Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams : The Evolution, Function, Nature, and Mysteries of Slumber, Greenwood,
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it in the same way you now know you are awake reading this book." So from the perspective of dreaming, the image is a place. Based on this notion, the dreamer can re-enter the landscape of the dream and
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between waking and sleeping. While in this state, the dreamer is asked a series of questions that help him or her to re-experience the dream by describing details of its landscape and image.
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into its images to more fully and deeply explore and experience them. The dreamer explores the images of the dream while in a
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dream "instantaneously presents a total world, so real that you are convinced you are awake. You don't just think so, you
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Bromberg, Philip M. (October 2003). On being one's dream: Some reflections on Robert Bosnak's "Embodied imagination."
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On November 3, 2006, the International Society for Embodied Imagination was founded at a conference in
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to establish its current use and the impact the term has had on its field. Otherwise consider
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feelings and sensations in his or her body. At the conclusion of the
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and based on principles first developed by Swiss psychiatrist
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Embodiment: Creative imagination in medicine, art and travel
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Embodied imagination in the work with dreams and memories
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Bosnak, Robert. (October 2003). Embodied imagination,
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The International Association for the Study of Dreams
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as a simultaneous multiplicity of autonomous states.
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Mundus imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal
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Therapeutic form of working with dreams and memories
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