Dream Sense Memory is a new way to approach dream work. It is based on Gestalt-therapy and is using method acting (first mentioned by Lee Strasberg and addressing actors) to access to dreams. To be able to authentically play their roles, actors have to fully embrace the fictive world in which exist the character they endorse. Actors using this method feel this fictive world with all their senses, they dive into it with the experiences they have made in their own life, transferring those upon the fictive character as if they would truly exist and be able to have real senses on their own.
In the Dream Sense Memory approach, a dream is worked upon by being recounted according to this method. It is about embracing a dream with all senses, so that every aspect of it can be uncovered. Only by using also the memory of the senses can the remembrance on the dreamed events be fully recovered and thus, the potential messages of the dream pictures be “sensed” and felt.
By taking care of filling out precisely the fields of the app related to senses and feelings, the plot and content of a dream can come back alive, can physically be felt and experienced in the same way a real event would be: through the memory of the senses, more details of the dream will come back to consciousness and be remembered.