Fritz Perls

Frederick Perls (1893-1970) founded the Gestalt therapy school, which main objective is to fill our emotional voids so that we can become a unified whole. Perls believed that dreams contain the rejected, disowned parts of the Self. Every character and every object in a dream represents a human aspect.Every single dream is considered as unique to the individual who dreams it. Perls stated than, in order to discover what aspect of the self is being disowned, it is important to retell the dream in the present tense. As well, it is equally important to verbalize how every separte component felt in the dream, even inanimate objects. It could be helpful to even act out the dream and play different roles.