The fact that all humans have night-dreams leads this author and teacher to a startling conclusion about how we can change and heal ourselves.

In fact, it appears to offer convincing evidence about a certain method of self-help, self-change, and self-healing. If you can dream, you can do this!

What we learn from dreams is that pictures are very important in conveying information. Since dreams are largely (if not exclusively) about ourselves, it would appear that we can best change our self-image by also using pictures. It is a two-way process. Dreams at any given moment of time give us a picture of our self-image. But the self-image can itself be influenced by means of creative visualization. This, in turn, will give rise to a different self-image in our dream. The important point is that you have more chance of changing your behavior or your image of yourself by presenting to your mind (to your right brain, to your unconscious mind,) a picture of how you would like to behave or like to be.

In other words, because our dreams give us pictures, we know that visualization–because it uses that same picture-language that the right brain, the unconscious, understands–is an important method for self-change and self-healing. And because we all know how to make dream-pictures, consciously making positive images for the purposes of visualizing change is a basic human ability.