Three Pointers to Help You Gain Insight into Your Own Dreams

Many dreamers have taken it upon themselves to figure out what their own dreams mean.  You wake up with the dream fresh in your mind, walk through it making assumptions along the way, and come to a conclusion.  This most likely happens on a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning after one of those teeth-rattling dreams that feel just like real life.  Your curiosity takes over and you try in vain to reason it all out yourself.  If you’re one of those people who can’t resist treading the dangerous waters of self interpretation, here are four pointers:

Try to Look at Your Dreams Objectively

  There’s this common temptation with dreams that involve familiar people or places.  It’s so easy to get caught up in the emotion of the dream and make decisions according to what we feel.  This happens when a person has a romantic experience in a dream that’s so intense the feeling of it lingers all the next day.  What’s actually happening here is the dreamer is getting hooked on the feelings of the dream and longs to feel them in waking life.  The dreamer therefore assumes their dream is telling them to pursue a relationship with the person in their dream.  The problem with this assumption is that their dream is caused by their desire for that person or a relationship in general.  Once the dreamer learns to approach this kind of dream objectively, which can almost never be done without a third party, emotions are prevented from influencing a bad decision.

Keys to Dreams Can be Elusive

  Every dream I’ve interpreted has always had one important elusive key.  This is especially true in long saga dreams.  No matter how experienced one becomes at extracting meaning out of dreams, there’s always one aspect that needs to be drawn out by dream interpreters experienced in “hearing”.  This takes a great deal of patience and can never be forced or conjured. Dreamers are often impatient to solve the mystery of their dream and try to hurry the process along, and in turn, very rarely get the right answer.

Tricks to Drawing Out Dream Meaning

   Sometimes when I wake up from a vivid dream I think I’m going to remember it forever.  I go through a lot of my day thinking about the dream, mulling it over, and trying to figure out what it all means.  I’ve learned from experience that if I don’t take the time to write down the dream right away, I’ve often forgotten an important aspect of the dream.  Once I decide to write the dream down, all this new information starts to come to mind, and suddenly I find that I’ve added a few sentences here and there.  By the time I’ve finished, there’s much more to the dream than I originally thought; sometimes whole new scenes.  The simple process of recording the dream ensures the entire dream is captured.  It takes patience and a bit of time, but it so enriches the interpretation experience.

  Another trick to drawing out meaning from a dream is to take a second and third look at a dream after the interpretation is known.  There’s this cool revelatory process that happens in dream interpretation where the “listening” interpreter hears meaning that cannot be found any other way.  It’s almost as if the author of the dream sidles up and whispers in their ear.  This experience is mind blowing when you experience it the first time, and quickly becomes addicting.  It slows the interpretive process a bit, but the insight gained is so worth the wait.

EB