What is Dream Sociometry?
March 20, 2018 DOI: 10.4324/9781351137461-2 (opens in new tab) via OpenAlex
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractDream Sociometry is an interviewing protocol within Integral Deep Listening (IDL), a form of dream yoga that treats waking life as sharing the same delusion as dreaming—the belief that one is awake while asleep. IDL proposes that, like lucid dreaming, one can become lucid to this delusion. Dream Sociometry adopts multiple perspectives by asking individuals to consider various world views invested in their dreams and life dramas. It is described as transpersonal, providing temporary and permanent access to levels of development that transcend rational and prepersonal stages.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Dream Sociometry |
| Keywords | Sociometry Dream Psychology Psychotherapist |
| Key finding | Proposes that Dream Sociometry, as part of Integral Deep Listening, offers a multi-perspectival and transpersonal approach to awakening from the delusion shared by dreaming and waking life. |
Abstract
Dream Sociometry is an in-depth character and life issue interviewing protocol that is one aspect of Integral Deep Listening (IDL). IDL is itself a form of dream yoga, or a path to awakening from the dreamlike nature of reality, asleep or awake. IDL does not claim that life is a dream, only that it shares with dreaming the same common delusion that while asleep and dreaming one is awake. It also shares with dreaming the ability to wake up, or move into lucidity and out of the delusion, that occurs with lucid dreaming. Dream Sociometry is multi-perspectival because it asks you to take a variety of different world views or orientations that are invested in individual dreams and life dramas. It is transpersonal because it provides both temporary state and permanent stage access to holons that transcend, yet include, both rational/personal and belief/preference-based prepersonal levels of development.