Your Dream’s Secret Language
Your dreams speak a secret language while you’re sleeping. The language may seem familiar, but you just can’t put your finger on its meaning. It’s no fault of yours. The language of your dreams is metaphor, its vocabulary is its symbols.
Dream’s secret language is made up entirely people you’ve encountered, the places you’ve lived and worked, the vehicles you’ve driven, and an innumerable number of other symbols personal to you. Although this language may seem random, confusing, and secretive, the messages your dreams are speaking to you can be understood.
Your Secret Heart Language
Hearts were made to give and receive. An encouraging word spoken at just the right time can make all the difference because it emboldens and strengthens the heart. Everyone’s familiar with their heart being encouraged in their waking lives, but so many time the hearts of dreamers receive encouragement through their dreams.
One facet of your dream’s secret language is to inspire and fortify your inner being, but how exactly are they able to do that? Some dreams are designed to give your heart exactly what it needs and the exact right time by causing you to interact with deeply personal symbols. A dream is able to provide closure, for example, to a situation with a loved one that’s impossible to get any other way.
A favorite aunt of mine passed away from a prescription drug overdose. There was some speculation among family members whether she committed suicide or not. I asked for a dream to provide closure to the matter. A few nights later I was standing face to face with this deceased aunt. I asked her why she she died and she answered “Because I wanted to.” Her statement brought me closure, and provided me comfort.
Think back to your own dreams. See if you can identify any dreams that have given you closure, comfort, emboldened or strengthened your heart.
Your Secret Cultural Language
Dreams can speak so specifically to each individual dreamer because they draw from the dreamer’s life experience and culture to communicate the truth of a matter. It takes what you know and tells a story of what has been, or what will be. Dreams do this so expertly that dreamers often mistake a dream as being an inside job, the product of their own sub conscience.
If you take some time to reason this idea out, factoring in the limits of our minds and the inaccuracy of memory, you soon realize detailed and unlimited dream experiences cannot all originate from a dreamer’s mind. Our human limits are too great, even with the so-called collective consciousness.
So then, the culture of you is on display when you dream about yourself, and the majority of the dreams you have will be about you. When I called this section Your Secret Cultural Language I wasn’t trying to say that it’s a secret dreams rely on the dreamer for their story content, rather that most dreamers don’t know what to make of the fact so much of their dream includes their personal culture.
All dreamers try to interpret their dreams literally at one time or another. Even me. I always woke up thinking about my dreams literally when I was a kid., Never once occurred to me that my dreams were utilizing things in my life as a metaphor.
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Another facet of your secret dream language is that it’s communicating truth. This is another way I know dreams don’t always originate with the dreamer. We humans have the tendency to lie to ourselves about a situation in life whether we realize it or not. Dreams reveal the truth about a situation.
Here’s a dream that supports this idea.
A few nights ago I had a dream that I went to my old high school wearing just a bathrobe. I was naked underneath, so I was afraid to take it off for anyone to notice. I have no idea why I dreamt about that. I’m 25 and graduated eight years ago. I will occasionally have dreams about high school especially walking the halls or at my graduation. I don’t know why.
Here’s another example of the dreamer taking the dream literally. This dream is not about going back to literal high school. The metaphor here is the dreamer is in a place of learning. The bathrobe symbolizes relaxation in this setting, or not taking things seriously in their current place of learning. Why do I say a current place of learning when they’re not currently in high school? Because this dream is about the dreamer’s current life. It’s using high school as a place to reference a time when they had a similar attitude. Not taking a time of learning seriously.
The dreamer may not want to hear that they’re not taking a time of learning seriously, especially if they’re now going through a learning curve at their job. Their livelihood depends on them taking things seriously so their dream is telling them it’s time to ditch the bathrobe and become vulnerable.