Dream Interpretation

Recording Your Dreams

          For all of those people out there who are interested in learning about what their dreams mean to them in their life need to live by one rule.  Always write down your dreams whenever you have them, soon after you have them.  However well you think you can remember your dreams, you should have a record that you can work with to help you see any patterns that occur in your dream.           The best way to interpret your own dreams is to first begin with having your own dream journal.  You should allow yourself an area where you can write the dreams on the left side of the journal and the interpretations on the right side, or vice-versa.  By having this journal will already get your mind set into the idea of having dreams, since you already have the journal to record them in.

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Interpreting Your Dreams

          The first thing you need to know about interpreting your dreams is that you should never use a dream dictionary, except for entertainment reasons. The reason I say this is because dreams are yours and yours only to interpret. What you are doing by looking in a dream dictionary, though some objects may relate, is opening up a fortune cookie and expect what you read inside will come true. Often times it will come true, for the simple fact that the topics are so broad that your "fortune cookie" could happen to any person on any given day.

          Now that dream dictionaries are out of the picture, we must find our own way to interpret our own dreams.  The best way seems to be asking your dream questions.  By doing this you can gain valuable insights into what the dream means.  You may want to start large with the dream itself and asking it questions, such as:

1.  What were you doing in the dream?
2.  What are the major contrasts and similarities in the dream and how do they relate?
3.  What are the major symbols and relationships between these symbols?
4.  What are the issues, conflicts, and unresolved situations in the dream?
5.  What relationship does this dream or the symbols in the dream, have to do with any other dream?

          After you have answered all these questions to yourself you can begin getting to the specifics:

1.  How am I acting in the dream?
2.  What symbols in this dream are important to me?
3.  What are the different feelings in this dream?
4.  What are the major actions in this dream?
5.  Who or what is the adversary in this dream?
6.  What is helping in this dream?
7.  What would I like to avoid in this dream?
8.  What actions might this dream be suggesting?
9.  What does this dream want from me?
10.  Why did I need this dream?

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Interpretation Problems

          It's not uncommon to have problems with interpretation. The main thing that you have to realize is that you have the answer.  Sometimes it's easy to see.  Sometimes it isn't.  The best approach to tackling a tough dream is to relax. If you become worried easily and find that when trying to work with and analyze one of your dreams you quickly begin to become exasperated by its difficulty, it may be a good idea get relaxed first.  Just because it doesn't come to you right away could be a good sign.  It has been found that the more difficult the dream, the more important it is to your life.

          The main thing you need to realize is that the dream will come to you, whether it takes a few mintues, hours, or possibly the next day.  Give it some time, because it may not be ready to reveal it's true meaning. All you need to do is make a record of the dream and one day it may make so much sense to you that you couldn't possibly imagine why it gave you so much trouble.  Give it some time, because it may not be ready to reveal it's true meaning.

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