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Looking at these differences
can open up whole new understandings of the dream.)
    ·          Why does the
character take whatever action they’re taking? (If you don’t know the answer,
then ask yourself why do you think he or she (or it) is behaving this way?)
    ·          How does the
character go about achieving his or her goals? (Does the character play fair?
Does he cheat? Does she move ahead no matter what’s in the way? Will he hurt
whoever gets in his way?)
    ·          How does the
character make you feel in the dream?
    ·          How do you respond
to the character? (Are you frightened but stand up to him or her (or it)? Are
you oblivious of the character’s presence? Do you run away from him or her even
though you know you shouldn’t?)
    ·          Does the character
resemble any real situation in my life? (You have also asked if the dream
itself resembled any situation in your life. But this is just the character
alone. Does the character alone resemble any situation in your life?)
     
    Mission #8
    1.       Ask the above
questions about each character in your dream.
    2.       Ask the above
questions about each of your props.
    3.       Ask the above questions about each of
the colors or emotions that you may have discovered.
    a.        Is there a top dog?
    b.       If there is a top
dog, is it a person or dream creature?
    c.        Identify the top
dog.
    4.       Is there an underdog?
    a.        If there is an
underdog, is it a person or dream creature?
    b.       Identify the
underdog
    5.       Is there a saboteur?
    a.        If there is, who or
what is that saboteur?
    6.       Who is the
protagonist of your dream?
    7.       Who is the
antagonist of your dream?

Point Of V iew
     
    Point of View
is an interesting study and just to scratch the surface would take hundreds of
pages. An actor, who has the ability to look at, and move from one vantage
point to another, will find that this ability is a great asset, not just in
acting or dream interpretation, but also in life.
     
    Point of View
is, very simply, the way we see something. It’s our own vantage point: that
position from which something is evaluated. Our Point of View is shaped by who
we are: our gender, our age, where we grew up, our education, marital status,
our social upbringing… the list is almost endless. The challenge each actor
faces is to move past relying on their own viewpoint, and seek to understand
the situation from the many other facets that may be coming into play. One
saying goes: “Each man can interpret another’s experience only by his own.”
This is where the tension in working with Point of View comes from.
     
    The easiest way
to illustrate this is with the picture below.
     

     
    ·          Look at the picture
with your right eye closed.
    ·          Now look at the
picture with your left eye closed.
     
    Did it change?
The most noticeable difference would be where the picture was in reference to
your eyes. With the right eye closed, the picture probably moved a bit to the
left. With the left eye closed, the picture moved to the right.
     
    ·          Now turn the book
upside down and look at it. Does it look different?
    ·          How do you imagine a
colorblind person might see it?
    ·          What if you were
looking at it from the other side of the room?
    ·          Perhaps you could
stand up and bend over so that you were looking through your legs.
     
    A cat lover may
find this picture “oh so precious,” while someone who doesn’t particularly care
for cats may wish to shoo the cat off the piano. A concert pianist may be
thinking of all the hair that’s getting into the keys and the damage being done
to the instrument. A photographer might notice things like composition and
lighting (the cat being just incidental). A printer may think about