DRAMATIZATION

Thinking or acting in a manner that is dictated by masses or significances contained in the Reactive Mind. When dramatizing, the individual is like an actor playing his dictated part and going through a whole series of irrational actions.

From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.

Usage

A person dramatizing might suddenly act out an irrational pattern of behavior without understanding why, as though following a script dictated by their reactive mind. An auditor would recognize this as the individual replaying masses and significances stored in the reactive mind rather than responding rationally to the present situation.

Why It Matters

Identifying dramatization is important in auditing because it reveals the reactive mind's control over a person's actions. Resolving the underlying masses and significances frees the individual from compulsive, irrational behavior patterns.

Related Concepts

REACTIVE MIND — That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command…
SIGNIFICANCE — A word which is used in the special sense to denote any thought, decision, concept, idea, purpose or meaning in the mind in distinction to its masses.
REACTIVE — Irrational, reacting instead of acting- behavior dictated by the Reactive Mind rather than the individual's own present-time determinism.
MIND — A control system between the thetan and the physical universe.

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