Dogme ELT is rooted in the experiences of the learner and what they bring with them to the classroom. Our unconscious mind regularly sends us communication in the form of dreams: it is an advantage to understand the meaning of these messages.
As our subconscious sends us only constructive information about our existence, it is extremely vital to acknowledge the content of our dreams. Nevertheless, a mistaken belief that our sleepy imaginings expose pessimistic messages about us remains. Our subconscious tries to enable us to be safe and happy, rather than frightened and bewildered. What we need is some kind of dream dictionary.
Our dreams make known on countless occasions scenes that seemingly fit in to other lives we have lived previously. In such dreams we are able classify the things that our conscious mind cannot immediately deal with. Our cellular recollections include all the intelligence we have gathered and can consequently be difficult to interpret.
We can indeed use our dreams to generate ideas for our classes: any one particular dream might lead to any number of different interpretations and the learning outcomes are potentially multifarious. Here are two examples:
1. Some dreams may be very general in nature and could lend themselves to the uncovering of language such as daily routines or events that only occur for a short period of time.
2. Some dreams come from your internal core and reflect emotions such as fear, anger, anxiety or sadness. Such dreams could be used in class for investigating emotive language, or discussing ‘what if…’ scenarios.
Using a dream dictionary online tool will help you with your preparations for such a class. Good luck!
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