Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 11:01 AM CST
FlowerOfTheSun wrote:Yeah!!! I always look into the meanin of my dreams, especially when they are powerful ... Outcome? Not sure that is applicable, usually is some kind of message about path or choices or feelings ... either something I am "worried about", or worked on in the past or something I am ignoring or not aknowledging in my waking life.
"The power of your dreams" by Soozi Holbeche is one of the books that I found really good for understanding how it all works: the different types of dreams, the different elements within a dream, individual meaning and collective meanings, recurring dreams etc . There a website I use regularly which is also good and quite comprehensive, you will find it easily if you google "dream mood dictionary". I like to bear in mind what I think the dream means to me as well as the symbolic meaning of it...
The only thing that is never symbolic in dreams is the "feeling(s)" you felt in them ... that is usually an extension of something in real life ...
When analysing/understanding a dream it is important to remember, who was involved including gender, where it took place, what elements where involved (water, earth etc), what material things were involved (house, car etc), what colours were predominant because ALL have important symbolic meanings THEN look at the interaction between all.
I am really impressed by the detail of your answer and I do agree that dreams most of the time have meanings in them. Specially, if we have note the timings of dreams, it can be very helpfull in interpretation. However, I would like to say that your answer gave me a good way of understanding the meanings of dreams. However, I would also like to share one of my questions regarding dreams.
If we have a horror dream, and then we suddenly wake up, we see its effects like fast breathing and respiration in our real condition. If we have a good dream then we are feeling better. Most importantly, in case of sexual dreams, when we wake up we can see its sign on our body. But, when we see that some one kills us, and then we suddenly wake up, we dont find ourselves dead. Why is that so ? Why it does not have physical effect on us ??
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