Interpreting Your Own Dreams

By kaylar, 9th Oct 2010 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/273i2mib/
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A short guide on how to interpret your own dreams, concentrating on your feelings and what the images mean to you.

Books, ezines, websites, oh my!
Your Dreams
How Do You Feel
Images
Interpretations

Books, ezines, websites, oh my!

Sprinter

Bookstores are full, websites beckon, there seems no end of information as how to interpret your dreams. But this one says a horse means.... and that one says a horse means....but the horse in your dream looked a lot like Sprinter, the fluffy toy you had when you were eight that your brother threw out of the car window.

This is the point of this guide.

For a horse, in your dream doesn't have anything to do with the 9th race at Santa Anita or freedom or independence. A horse in your dream has a lot to do with your brother throwing sprinter out of the car window.

Your Dreams

dreaming

Dreams have a number of functions. In some cases, they free your subconscious mind which expresses itself in feelings and images. In others they reveal facts your conscious mind did not perceive or has suppressed.

Many times you don't remember your dreams because they were not particularly elucidation or important, often they filled in missing episodes in a program you watched, or rehashed the day, but other times, the feelings, the symbols, the 'importance' of that night vision has you searching for meaning.

And the search should begin within you.

How Do You Feel

feelings

When you wake with that vital dream, begin to describe it to yourself in words, holding the images, not trying to be precise, just trying to get it out. Hearing your voice saying some key words will prevent them from being lost.

Now that you've captured most of the dream in words; (you can tape it if you feel you will lose it), go through your feelings. For that is where the revelations come. How did you feel when....

Many times you can't describe it, not precisely. But you might be able to remember the last time you felt like that.

Often the feeling doesn't match the image; why should you feel this insane rage when that woman smiled? Why should you accept a meaningless trivial item with such awe as if it is of great value?

Exploring these feelings often makes connections that your conscious mind is unaware of.

Images

images

Review the images in your mind, see them as clearly as you can, name them, even if the names are silly or taken from advertisements. What do they mean to you? Don't shrug, what does a merry-go-round mean in your life? Is it figurative, meaning that you are going around in circles getting no where? Does it provoke memories of that summer when you were sixteen? Do you see other people there? Who are they? What do they mean to you?

There is a difference between you dreaming of a tiger and mentally calling it 'Boots' (the name of your cat) and another person who is afraid to walk on a pier seeing a tiger ready to spring. A tiger is not just a tiger, not in your dream. Nor does it mean a vicious beast or predator, if you saw it and thought, "Boots".

This is the key feature. The images in your dreams are personal to you.

Yes, there is a wide body of psychology which will see every aspect of your dream as having some meaning, (usually sexual) but then, it depends on whether one has a European background for those images to match some sort of grid.

Further, it depends on where you are in the world.

For many a machete is a tool, like a shovel. For some it is a weapon. Some see a machete as a kind of punishment work; having to cut cane in the hot sun. Others as a vital household item. It depends on what you see it as whether we are talking destruction or gardening.

Each image needs to be analysed as to what it is, what it means to you, how do you feel when you see it? And of course, the feelings connect to other times and places.

Interpretations

Now that you have gotten all the images named, the feelings intertwined, so that what you felt connects to real events when you felt that way, you will begin to see the pattern, the reason why this image was used and why you felt that way when you saw that image.

In the dream of the horse; you remembered how your brother threw Sprinter out of a speeding car and how you cried and your parents couldn't stop, and yesterday, your brother told you some very unpleasant things about someone you love...and your subconscious has just told you...Don't listen to him.