Don’t Skip These Three Steps

  When a person awakes from a dream they sense is important, they are immediately tempted to start figuring out what they just experienced.  In doing so, several important steps that can make all the difference in understanding the dream are often skipped.  Here are three important first steps you can take to better understand your dream.

  Meditating on the the details of your dream as you slowly wake up yields incredible results.  It’s the one thing you can do to solidify dream events in your memory before you’re fully awake and the dream begins to fade.  Many of you know that one of my favorite descriptions about dreams is that they are like short stories written in invisible ink.  Rehearsing what you remember of your dream as you wake up allows you to trace those the lines of invisible ink with the equivalent of a permanent marker.

  The second step is inscribing your dream.  As most of you know, I’m a big believer in getting down the details of your dream.  Whether you write them down or dictate them into the voice recorder on your phone, it makes no difference.  Preserving your dreams in this way is perhaps the best way to preserve the dream experience.

   Last, but certainly not least, a title needs to be given to the dream.  Why a title?  The best way I can explain it is, a dream title is the final step in keeping the dream alive.  And keeping the dream alive allows the dreamer to hold on to that which seems too elusive to grasp.  A title is a declarative statement that announces that your dream has a place in the waking world.  It solidifies the transition of the dream from the invisible world to our world.

  So next time you wake up from a dream and are tempted to rush into the process of figuring what the dream’s about, remember these three simple steps that can make all the difference in bringing understanding to your dream.

EB

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