Acting Your Dreams: Using Acting Techniques to Interpret Your Dreams by Ben Tousey Page B
Authors: Ben Tousey
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tell you I love you, that’s probably going to create
happiness. Below is a list of some of the most common and recognizable
emotions.
Anger
Joy
Sadness
Depression
Frustration
Elation
Anticipation
Fear
Courage
Giddiness
Annoyance
Apathy
Hopelessness
Agitation
This is by no
means an exhaustive list. You’ve probably got your own list that wasn’t included
here. It’s good to be aware of any and all emotions that you may find yourself
experiencing on a daily basis because your Dreamwright will make full use of
these.
Most of us
don’t fully recognize or understand our emotions. We can be so unaware that we
generalize those emotions we don’t understand, and categorize them into
something else. A good example would be someone who’s bored. Because this person
doesn’t have a keen awareness of the emotion boredom they translate that
emotion into depression. So now they’re depressed. Someone else could be
frustrated, but because they didn’t understand the feelings of frustration,
they translate that into anger. For someone who can’t handle the idea of being
depressed, they turn their depression into tiredness, and they sleep.
Most of us have
two or three really strong emotions that we use all the time, and tend to avoid
others, either by brushing them aside or by generalizing them into our “favorite”
emotions. Some emotions are so similar that we often don’t understand that
there is a difference. For example, frustration and hopelessness are very
similar, but they are different emotions. Frustration as an emotion, is
experienced when we know that something can be done but it’s not being done to
our liking, or being done fast enough. Hopelessness as an emotion is experienced
when there truly is nothing else that can be done, and we must surrender that
idea and move on. Examples of these two emotions can be found in relationships.
Frustration is when you know that there’s hope for the relationship but it’s
not happening as quickly or as smoothly as you would like. Hopelessness on the
other hand, happens when you realize that the relationship truly is over and
it’s time to move on.
The emotions
anger and fear are very similar. Anger usually arises when some value or
boundary has been violated. This violation may be real or perceived. In either
case, you use anger by preparing to defend your turf. Fear, on the other hand,
is an emotional response to feeling that some part of your boundaries is being
threatened. We’ll go back to the relationship metaphor again. When your lover
violates your boundaries by failing to respect your wishes, that is anger. When
you feel that somehow your lover could physically or emotionally hurt you,
that’s fear.
We create all
emotions, usually in response to a real or perceived experience. If you’re
walking down the street and a car is coming toward you and you jump out of the
way, that’s a real threat. If I throw a stick at you and tell you it’s a snake
and you scream, that’s a perceived threat. Either way, the mind doesn’t know
the difference and responds based on the information it has. That’s how we
create emotions.
Our Dreamwright
is aware of this and will force us to deal with emotions that we either won’t
face in waking life, or we aren’t aware of because we’ve generalized them into another
emotion. That could be why so many of our dreams become so emotionally charged.
Definition
of Emotion
Emotion and
action are tied together. Emotion can best be described as “Energy in Motion.”
E=Motion. Another definition of emotion could be a mental and/or physical
reaction experienced as a strong feeling that involves physiological changes
that prepare the body for immediate vigorous action, or a state of feeling.
Or another way
of saying it is, emotion is motivation…
· If we Hate something
(Hate is an emotion), we are repelled from it and don't do it.
· If we
happiness. Below is a list of some of the most common and recognizable
emotions.
Anger
Joy
Sadness
Depression
Frustration
Elation
Anticipation
Fear
Courage
Giddiness
Annoyance
Apathy
Hopelessness
Agitation
This is by no
means an exhaustive list. You’ve probably got your own list that wasn’t included
here. It’s good to be aware of any and all emotions that you may find yourself
experiencing on a daily basis because your Dreamwright will make full use of
these.
Most of us
don’t fully recognize or understand our emotions. We can be so unaware that we
generalize those emotions we don’t understand, and categorize them into
something else. A good example would be someone who’s bored. Because this person
doesn’t have a keen awareness of the emotion boredom they translate that
emotion into depression. So now they’re depressed. Someone else could be
frustrated, but because they didn’t understand the feelings of frustration,
they translate that into anger. For someone who can’t handle the idea of being
depressed, they turn their depression into tiredness, and they sleep.
Most of us have
two or three really strong emotions that we use all the time, and tend to avoid
others, either by brushing them aside or by generalizing them into our “favorite”
emotions. Some emotions are so similar that we often don’t understand that
there is a difference. For example, frustration and hopelessness are very
similar, but they are different emotions. Frustration as an emotion, is
experienced when we know that something can be done but it’s not being done to
our liking, or being done fast enough. Hopelessness as an emotion is experienced
when there truly is nothing else that can be done, and we must surrender that
idea and move on. Examples of these two emotions can be found in relationships.
Frustration is when you know that there’s hope for the relationship but it’s
not happening as quickly or as smoothly as you would like. Hopelessness on the
other hand, happens when you realize that the relationship truly is over and
it’s time to move on.
The emotions
anger and fear are very similar. Anger usually arises when some value or
boundary has been violated. This violation may be real or perceived. In either
case, you use anger by preparing to defend your turf. Fear, on the other hand,
is an emotional response to feeling that some part of your boundaries is being
threatened. We’ll go back to the relationship metaphor again. When your lover
violates your boundaries by failing to respect your wishes, that is anger. When
you feel that somehow your lover could physically or emotionally hurt you,
that’s fear.
We create all
emotions, usually in response to a real or perceived experience. If you’re
walking down the street and a car is coming toward you and you jump out of the
way, that’s a real threat. If I throw a stick at you and tell you it’s a snake
and you scream, that’s a perceived threat. Either way, the mind doesn’t know
the difference and responds based on the information it has. That’s how we
create emotions.
Our Dreamwright
is aware of this and will force us to deal with emotions that we either won’t
face in waking life, or we aren’t aware of because we’ve generalized them into another
emotion. That could be why so many of our dreams become so emotionally charged.
Definition
of Emotion
Emotion and
action are tied together. Emotion can best be described as “Energy in Motion.”
E=Motion. Another definition of emotion could be a mental and/or physical
reaction experienced as a strong feeling that involves physiological changes
that prepare the body for immediate vigorous action, or a state of feeling.
Or another way
of saying it is, emotion is motivation…
· If we Hate something
(Hate is an emotion), we are repelled from it and don't do it.
· If we
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