Synecdoche, New York, and Dreams, Part 2

More dream goodness from the Fresh Air interview between Terry Gross and Charlie Kaufman
(screenwriter for Being John Malkovich, Adaption) - lending insight into what intrigues Kaufman about dreams:

"And I wake up often from dreams feeling so emotionally affected - devastated - and I can't shake it for an entire day ... or just full of longing ... and sometimes really happy ... and sometimes angry or hurt"

Emotions are a big part of dreams - both the emotional aftereffects, like these, that sit with you during your waking life and those emotions embedded within the dream itself that usually only emerge in the retelling - the reengagement with the dream.

It's funny, the emotional part of dreams tends to be buried under chains of associations and interpretations - Good Doctor Freud had a little something to do with that.

In my practice, and in the practice of many others, we focus on the emotional narrative of the dream as a key component of what the dream is trying to convey to us.