What is Dream Code?

Humans have used code to disguise important messages from enemies and other prying eyes for centuries. In my years of dream study I’ve seen first hand how a dream code can nearly perfectly cloak a dream’s meaning. Read on, dear dreamer, you’re about to discover ways to break that nearly perfect code.

  Dream code is the system of symbolic metaphor dreams use to create a mysterious coded message. What a dreamer sees and experiences within a dream, is code for something else. Given the right tools, dreamers are able to decipher dream code and extract meaning from the coded mystery.

How Does Dream Code Work?

Dreams primarily use metaphor to encode the messages they’re delivering to you. It’s natural for dreamers to think of their dreams as literal. This is just one reason why dreams can be so confusing. If you understand the concept of metaphor you’ll begin to see how dream code works.

 Use Of Metaphor ~~ Metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. An example of this is a bird. A metaphorical meaning of a bird is something that can navigate through the air and also touch earth. People are another example of this. Most of us have dreams that include people. We dream of family, bosses, friends, and even people we’ve never seen before. By using people to represent their position or what their name means, dreams code their message.

People Aren’t Always Themselves

Dreams use dream code to disguise the meaning of the people who appear in your dream. People tend to represent different things including the meaning of their name. A big mistake many dreamers make when they have a dream with someone in it is to text or call them and tell them they’ve had a dream about them. You didn’t know if the dream is really about them until you’ve determined who or what the dream is about.

When people appear in your dream take a minute to look up the meaning of their first and last names. This can often decode what the person represents. If the meaning of their names doesn’t click with the dream, consider the role they play in your life or what you most identify that person with.

First Steps to Deciphering Dream Code

Dreams are perhaps one of the most entertaining yet confusing secret coded messages ever devised. Dreamers try all sorts of things to decipher the secret code  dreams present. Looking up dream symbols on Google, trying to decipher their dream through the lens of the literal, and a whole host of other methods that only result in confusion. How then can dreamers decode the strange images and circumstances they encounter in their dream?

One of the most helpful first steps I’ve discovered in deciphering dream code is separate out all the symbols from one another. Make a list of every metaphorical symbol that appears in your dream; cars, horses, toys, televisions, everything.

Why not take a moment to think of a dream and listing out the symbols, the setting and your emotions?

Who or What is The Dream About?

In my Index Finger Dream above I’ve separated out the five symbols that appear in the dream. Now it’s time to reassemble the dream one symbol at a time.

To determine who or what my dream is bout I’ve got to break the dream code even further down. Is the dream about my right index finger? The wound? The layers of my skin? My fingerprint? the woman? Well, since it’s my finger it’s safe to say the dream is about me. My right index finger is receiving the action of the dream by receiving a wound, so if I can crack the code and figure out what my right index finger means I’m well on my way to deciphering the dream.

These are the first steps to deciphering the dream code of any dream.

Pay Attention to Your Waking thoughts and Feelings

The next step you can take to break dream code is to try and recall the sense that you had about the dream when you woke up. What are your feelings? What are your thoughts?

By using your internal intuition you can often tell what your dream is about by paying attention to your first thoughts and feelings after waking up. It goes like this. Upon waking up from a dream you say aloud “I’ve just had a healing dream”. There were no doctors or nurses or even a hospital in your dream. You just have a sense that you’ve been healed of something when you’re waking up.

Look at the big picture

Another step you can take to break dream code is to look at the big picture. It’s so easy to get caught up in one or two symbols that capture our attention. Because of this dreamers often fail to see their dream as a whole. This one step can revolutionize what you understand about your dream.

But how is it possible to see the big picture?

The best way to see the big picture of your dream is to summarize your dream in a couple of sentences. For example if you find yourself in a certain place, maybe a cabin out in the woods, and you walk along a trail until you find a car, drive the car to a city and go inside a building you can easily summarize it by saying you’re on a journey. If you’re observing something and are not a part of the action, you summarize it by saying that you’re being shown something.

When you reduce the dream down to a basic sentence or two, then begin to separate out the symbols of the dream, the dream’s meaning will begin to reveal itself.

The Secret Code of Your Dream is Breakable

It’s easy to look at a dream and get intimidated by its length, its subject matter or a whole host of other things the dream presents. You need to know that every dream has a secret code and that secret code is breakable. However, the process of breaking the dream code is often counterintuitive. If you resist the urge to think logically, pay attention to your waking thoughts and feelings, and see the big picture of your dream, it can go a long way to breaking the dream code.

EB