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.....We have Waking dreams, and Sleeping dreams, and each in its own manner carries a message.... Some personal, and some part of the collective unconscious - Have you ever deciphered a dream you had?
And what was the outcome?

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 ??

Interesting!
Came to some of the same Conclusions!

Yes,saved my Backside quite a few times.
Usually something gets pointed out to me,which Iam too foolish or too Stubborn to accept in an Awake State.
Well,maybe sometimes we are in a more "Awake" State when we sleep,then waking.
Sometimes it's that sense of déjà vu,,having been there in the same Situation again.It's downright eerie sometime.Wish I was better reading the Roadsigns,but I suppose Humanity is only just setting out on that Journey again!

Hi Roomi


In your examples, you are describing emotional and physical "responses" that are triggered by "something" ...

May be being dead is a state of being rather than a response also consider that one of the symbolic meanings of "being killed" in a dream can be that your actions and your emotions are disconnected ...

C.G. Jung was a great believer in dreams and their meanings!

I seldom dream, but find that when I do then it has great meaning ... and is most interesting to watch the unfolding of it. Usually my dreams are "forecasts" of some sort.

Made a resolve today to search the Town for some of Jung's writings on Dreams!

Well, hope you did not invest too much energy searching for this. I mentioned that because in his writings of analysing some peoples problems he sometimes would listen to their stories of their dreams, being their unconscious revelations. He says dreams depend upon outer conditions, desires, ambitions, and other people. They depend upon other people mainly - because they have no value in themselves. They are only rational, and not in possession of a treasure that would make them independent.

He says also that dreams are the origin of mythology. They are instinctual images that are not intellectually invented. Mythology is a dramatization of a series of images that formulate the life of the arechetypes. He says too that man is not complete when he lives in a world of statistical truth - he must live in the world of his mythological truth........ "It is the expression of what he really is, and what he feels himself to be".

Here is an extract from this book I have of his, where he is discussing dreams as related to mythology.....

"The trouble is that nobody understands these things, apparently. It is quite strange that one doesn`t see what an education without the humanities is doing to man. He loses connection with his family, as it were, with the whole stem, the tribe, the connection with the past that he lives in, in which man has always lived. Man has always lived in the myth, and we think we are able to be born today and to live in no myth, without history. That is a disease, absolutely abnormal, because man is not born every day. He is born once in a specific historical setting, with specific historical qualities, and therefore he is only complete when he has a relation to these things. If you grow up with no connection with the past, it is just as if you were born without eyes and ears. From the standpoint of natural science you need no connection with the past, you can wipe it out, but that is a mutilation of the human being. I have seen from practical experience that this realization has a most extraordinary theapeutic effect."

Yes,Dr. Jung was a wise Man.
No wonder his work continues up here in Zurich.

Wow, last night had a dream that my first ex was trying to push me off a tow path into a fast flowing river ! Eventually she succeeded. I remember going under the water and eventually scrambling to the bank where my second ex was waiting, she put the sole of her foot on my face and pushed me back undser the water. I swear this is all true. Can,t say what happened next as I woke up soaking wet with sweat.

Yes, I always dream that my theeth are falling out, and when I looked at its meaning, it can mean a lot of things, like this kind of dream may be rooted to the fear of being embarrassed or making a fool of yourself in some specific situation.

One theory is that dreams about your teeth reflect your anxiety about your appearance and how others perceive you.

Teeth are used to bite, tear, chew and gnaw. In this regard, teeth represent power. And the loss of teeth in dreams may be from a sense of powerlessness.

But my theory is this.... I always have suffered from pain in my teeth and gums, and these last couple of years it got worse. Once I took an overdose of pain killers in one night to try and numb the pain until morning till I can visit the dentist. The dentists (different ones) cannot find anything wrong in my gums and teeth, so I think my dreams are all connected to the fear of the pain I have.

Sometimes these dreams are so real that when I wake up I can still taste the blood in my mouth... weird!!!

It is but the ovice of our subconcious.....

voice....sorry

Yes they do and how. Im convinced of this...

Some dreams do carry a message...and it's done in symbols. The trick is to decode the symbols and connect it to your present day life so it can help guide you in the immediate future. I do get messages in my dreams that help me make certain decision in my everyday life. I do get warnings as well.

I have had a few prophetic dreams....meaning I dreamed of certain things happening to certain people in which I witnessed happen in the future.

Some dreams of mine are really powerful, and it feels more real than the physical world. It's too bad I can't remember all my dreams in whatever astral journey I was on.

Also, I strongly believe that I have been to parallel worlds, alternate realities, and higher/lower vibratory planes. Dreams can give us a glimpse of other streams of the infinite realities that are intertwined together beyond time, space, and matter.

These dreams happen occasionally to me....not often, but when they do happen, they are beyond powerful and real.