Why Google Can’t Interpret Your Dream
Why Google Can’t Interpret Your Dream
Have you ever tried finding answers to different symbols you’ve seen in your dreams by doing a Google search? Did you find an answer that satisfied your curiosity and made sense with the context of your dream? The answer for almost everyone is a resounding no.
Here’s why you’re not finding the answers to what your dreams mean by searching Google..
Google is a remarkable search engine that’s made our lives easier in many ways, and more difficult in others. It’s great when you can put an address into Google maps and figure out exactly where you need to go in a matter of seconds. You can find theater listings all over town playing that movie you want to see this weekend in a matter of seconds. Searching for that restaurant you have been meaning to go to and finding out it’s closer than you thought is beyond convenient.
But everything is not easier and more convenient with the most popular search engine in the world. Let’s take dreams as an example. Searching for meaning in your dreams can be difficult at best and leave you all sorts of confused.
One way it’s made things difficult for me is giving me too much information on any one topic. It’s easy for me to make a decision when I have a choice between 5 things, even 10, but more often than not Google produces millions, even hundreds of millions of results, which ends up giving me a headache.
If you type into Google a search term like “What does my dream mean?” you get roughly 312 million results. You mean I’ve got to sift through all that in oder to find out what my dream means? In a word, yes. But nobody’s going to do that, so if you’re like me you give up after clicking on a few websites and not finding the answers you’re looking for.
At this point most of us give up and move on, assuming that we’re not supposed to figure out what the meaning of the dream is.
Context is so important to the meaning of the dream that even if you accurately take into account the dreamer and their feelings toward different symbols, the meaning of the dream can still be elusive.
You can’t find the meaning to your dreams by searching Google, because Google is not a dream interpreter. All Google does is return the results of your search. If you put in a broad topic like “What does my dream mean?” you’ll get 312 million results. Even if you search for things like “What do dogs mean in dreams?” you still something like 35 million results.
It doesn’t help much when you narrow things down because there are so many different websites out there offering advice on dreams and almost none of them will satisfy your curiosity, let alone give you the correct meaning of what your dream means. How can I say this? Easy. Search engines don’t consider the most important factor in determining what dream symbols mean, and that’s who’s dreaming the dream.
In order to determine what a single dream symbol means it’s imperative to take a few things into consideration. First, is who is the dreamer? If you’re searching for the dog meaning in a dream the first meaning that pops up on Google is this:
“Dogs in dreams are a symbol of loyalty, protection, fidelity and intuition.”
Okay, but what if the dreamer has been attacked by a dog early in life and every time they think of a dog they instantly have anxiety and fear? There’s no way for Google to account for dogs as negative symbols in dreams unless the dreamer searches for those exact words. I suppose the dreamer could do that if they realize the symbol has a negative meaning, but dogs are so beloved in our western society that the first thing that shows up in searches are typically positive.
The next thing that Google can’t account for is the context of the dream. The contest of a dream is a crucial factor in determining just about everything within a dream. For example a dog can have a negative meaning in a dream if the setting is a dark alley at midnight as opposed to a dog park on a sunny cloudless day. The unlimited nature of dreams makes it possible for a person who is afraid of dogs to have a very positive dream with a dog as a main symbol, and vice versa.
Context is so important to the meaning of a dream that even if you accurately take into account the dreamer and their feelings toward different symbols in the dream, the meaning of the dream can still be elusive.
…with practice and a bit of finesse you can know the meaning…
of your dream
The last, and perhaps the most important, reason why Google can’t interpret your dream is because it yields so many different, often opposing, meanings to the same dream symbol, even the same dream. The search for dream interpretation websites yielded around 9 million while I was writing this article. Those websites are not in agreement on the meaning of symbols, or even interpretation models. In other words, you can take your dream to these millions of websites and get as many meanings to your dream.
Which symbol interpretation and dream model is the best? The one that leads you to the true meaning of your dream.
Dreams are incredibly subjective. That being said, there is a right and true meaning to your dream. It’s a bit of a paradox, but with practice and a bit of finesse you can know the meaning of your dream symbols and, ultimately, the meaning of your dream. Thing is, Google is not the best way for you to get there, unless, of course, it has lead you here.
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