Harness the power of your unconscious through dream incubation: an age-old technique to access hidden wisdom and receive instruction through your dreams.
Everyone dreams-both literally and metaphorically-but most people don’t know that their dreams can be used for personal development. Therapist, dream expert, and founder of the Jung Society of Utah and the Jung Platform Machiel Klerk shares how, through dream incubation, you can manifest the life of your dreams just by cultivating an intimate relationship with your own dreams and taking the guidance you receive from your subconscious. If you ask the right question and keep an open mind, your dream will give you an answer. Klerk offers an easy, actionable five-step process to help you have an incubation dream, a dream that reveals the answer to your question.
1. Identify the problem and decide that you’d like to ask your dream for help.
2. Develop a question that relates directly to the issue for which you are seeking answers.
3. Engage in a ritual aimed to enhance the dream response, like meditation.
4. Sleep, and upon waking, immediately record your dream or dreams.
5. Reflect on the dream and determine the “lesson” it offered.
Machiel Klerk is a licensed mental health therapist, international speaker, dream worker, author, and social entrepreneur.
He has been a mental health therapist since 2006, and currently has an online private practice. While obtaining a master’s degree on counseling psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, he studied Jungian psychology. Fascinated by healing traditions, he has traveled all over the world and studied many cultures and their healing and dream technologies—specifically African traditions, as he was born in South Africa.
Machiel has given lectures and workshops throughout Europe, South Africa, and North America about dreams and psychology. He also provides inspirational talks and workshops for companies on creativity, innovation, and leadership. He has written several articles on dreams and released a course on Jung Platform.
Machiel has vocationally been guided by dreams when he founded the Jung Society of Utah and the online organization Jung Platform because of a nighttime dream. In appreciation for these contributions, he has received several awards from the local community.