Spiritual and nonspiritual approaches to dream work: Effects on clients' well-being

Abstract

Fifty-one spiritually oriented volunteer clients completed 2 sessions of waking life dream interpretation or 2 sessions of spiritual dream interpretation. Volunteer clients in both conditions increased in insight into their dreams and rated sessions favorably, but volunteer clients in the spiritual condition experienced greater increases in spiritual insight into their dreams and experienced greater increases in existential well-being. The results suggest the benefits of incorporating spirituality into dream interpretation for spiritually oriented clients.