Quote by Carl Jung. Image via Pinterest.
It is very common to dream about friends, family members and any other type of person we come into contact in the waking world. Sometimes, these people can greatly affect us either in negative or positive ways such as generating within us feelings of extreme loathing, fear, passionate longing or intense admiration.
It is important to know that how these people affect us in waking life and what they mean to us are often projections of what those people mean to us in dream time—often an phenomenon that may or may not be true, and may not all reflect who those people really are.
Dreamwork Can Make Us Aware of Projections
One of the great advantages of working with dreams is to help make us conscious of the projections we place on other people. If we are aware that what we think or how we view a person may be a projection that should be investigated, we are removing one more blind spot in our field of awareness and allowing another person’s true self to speak to us.
A Useful Dreamwork Method: Viewing Everything in the Dream as Part of Myself
The dreamwork method of first viewing everything in the dream as part of me allows to me reflect on what each person in the dream means to me. Seeing each person as representing a type of energy within myself allows me to ask questions why this person generates strong negative and positive feelings, especially when I see how this dream person interacts with other parts of myself in the dream. I can begin to see a very lively drama that may have very little to do with what is going on outside and has a lot to say what is happening within me. I then may be able to view the person outside in a different light, and with more objectivity.
Unfortunately, for those who do not do dreamwork or even remember their dreams, they can be subject to being driven by unrecognized energies operating in dream time. In other words, it is like they are being programmed and don’t even know it.
Fran Kramer 
I thought this was so on the mark. I wanted to reblog it, but the option wasnt presenting itself. Maybe I need to follow you to do that?
Just yesterday I was working with a student who had allowed a projection get the better of her. Luckily she trusted me enough to have me serve as intermediary to bring her into a short meeting with another teacher who was part of her projection and it helped her heal her fears.
Thank you for your remarks. They are always most appreciative. I try to put practical information on my blog. You may reblog it by either scrolling to the Reblog button located right under the blog message if you are viewing the blog from my blog (fjrankramer.wordpress.com), or copy and paste the web page address into your own blog. The shortlink is http://wp.me/p45aiq-lB.