Away with them, I say!
I believe no one can know what your dreams mean better than yourself. I also believe that we, as human beings, have long demonstrated our ability to reflect, understand, and create a world outside of ourselves. Why do we need external aid to understand our own inner worlds?
The Talk of Inner Guides
I believe dreams are both ephemeral and real, they are part of our psyche and, yet, they are linked beyond our beings and when we let our guard off, we allow it the freedom to move beyond the limits that our bias, perceptions, and predetermined metaphors for reality forces it to abide by during the day.
Hence, when our mind dreams, it both emanates from our deep psyche and also becomes in sync with a larger reality (i.e. the universal consciousness that is linking everyone and everything together, in ways that we still don’t comprehend), allowing our ephemeral selves to move beyond our physical constraints and into more universalizing realities and dimensions.
Dreams are great means for our inner selves and spirit guides to communicate with us. We have become so busy in the physical world, and we’re keeping our minds focused with meaningless and stressful activities, that we don’t give our minds the time to relax and be present in the moment.
Hence, dreams become even more essential and of greater consequence for understanding ourselves.
We must listen to what our inner guide is saying by interpreting the message it is trying to communicate to us, and which many of us (because of lack of practice) only hear faintly.
How to Interpret Dreams
There is no formula for analyzing dreams. Interpreting dreams is about thoughtful revision of what you have experienced in your dream and dig deeper into their profound meaning.
Dreams are personal experiences, hence your dreams have to be understood purely in context of your individuality and your journey of self-discovery.
To interpret your dreams, you will have to:
1. Record Your Dreams
This is a crucial step in analyzing and interpreting your dreams. Dreams are a communication from your unconscious and hence have to be first brought into the realm of the concrete, i.e. written and recorded.
Create a dream diary beside your bed where you can record whatever you can remember of your dream.
In case you do not remember the dream, simply write “no dream to record”. Within a few weeks, you will begin to remember the dreams.
2. Reflect and Identify Your State
Your written record of the dream does not show the state of your emotions. Hence, once you have jotted what you remembered from the dream, ask yourself: How was I feeling during the dream? How was I feeling when you woke up?
This means you are informing yourself of the simple emotions that you felt during the dream: were you angry, unhappy, joyous, remorseful, etc.?
Now realize if what you felt during the dream has moved into your conscious: are you feeling the same way after you woke up from the dream? How comfortable are your feelings?
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