I found that, when I reminded myself that I was the producer of my own dreams and that I had chosen the script, the setting, and the actors, and directed and organized the whole dream show, the lights went on! Almost all my dreams and their meanings became very much more accessible to me. I stopped looking at dreams as something I received and started experiencing them as something I created. When I worked under the assumption that I produced a dream with great care and skill in order to get a message across to my waking self, it was much easier to understand why the dream images acted as they did. I had cast the stars in the Preminger dream to convey a sense of welcome which actors or stars would normally express at the return of their producer. My dream images were welcoming me home. I had forgotten that I was their producer. I had spent several years in Jungian analysis trying to understand my dreams. I had accepted the belief that I needed an expert to help me. What I really needed was a more immediate sense of my role in the creation of my dreams and the belief that, with a few pointers and some practice, I could better appreciate and understand my dreams than anyone else could.
