Dream Articles

 

"When we take time to dream, we discover the many windows to our soul."

- Isabel Burani

 

 

 

    

Our Dream life is in a sense, a parallel existence that is as valid as our waking life.

 Through our dreams we can access the deepest parts of ourselves that have no apparent outlet in our conscious state.  For some people, that process works quite easily, and for others it does not seem so.  If you feel you that you do not dream, that can change, especially if you take an active part by asking for dreams.  Ask your inner self, your Guardian Angel, your Higher Self, God the Source, wherever you feel your guidance comes from.   

 Dreams are an important place or reservoir, from which we can access the information that we need from our subconscious, and the subconscious is the gateway to all other levels of awareness and therefore knowledge.

 The results can be very interesting.

 Dreams, most especially the lucid type, contain an enormous amount of information through symbols, and every detail of a dream is a symbol.  Dream symbols are usually very personal in the sense that they relate to your life only, the things that you know and understand.   So, though you may have to work at interpreting them, which is part of the development process, at the same time the meaning is accessible to you.

 Interpretation is through feeling.  How a dream feels to you, or how it makes you feel.  That includes each part of the dream as well as the dream as a whole.  Through interpreting your dream, you gain as much as you are able from the 'energy' that the symbols contain or exude.   All energy contains information, and the access of that knowledge is only limited by the ability to 'feel' or 'sense'.   Limitation can change with practice, so even if it seems difficult at first, the more you do, the easier it becomes. 

 Some dreams are prophetic in that they are telling you about a coming event or situation that you need to know about, perhaps to help you at the time of the dream, or for a later time.  Others may be in answer to a problem or question.  Often, dreams are to do with your development, and so contain information that enables you to understand what it is that you are working on. 

 The meaning behind difficult phases of life can be obscure, outer circumstances can seem to provide no clue.  Dreams can enable you to grasp and understand the underlying energy, the deeper reason.  By coming to clearly and deeply understand the inner blocks (often referred to as faults) that manifest in life difficulties, you can then overcome them, see the bigger picture and move on because the understanding gained means that you no longer need the blocks in the way that you did.   Blocks are the stepping stones and, through the effort of overcoming them, fuel for development. 

 Understanding is the key, and that is gained through being able to access through your senses, knowledge and information contained in energy.

 Since our dreams are unique to our own individual path, it is not possible to state that a particular symbol will mean the same thing for everyone.    Dreaming about a car for example, will mean different things to different people.  In my case it has meant taking control of my own life - taking the wheel.  In your dream it might mean something quite different, and how it 'feels' will tell you what that is.  The shape of the car will have a 'feeling', as will the colour.  I have had several dreams about riding a bicycle which for me is about my 'personal' vehicle, my body.   In many dreams, I have been given symbols that I could understand through my knowledge of Astrology.

 When working with dreams, you can find that the images are quite dramatic, and certainly not literal (except in the case of prophetic dreams).  Dreams that are shocking or embarrassing in a dramatic way, are to get your attention and upon analysis can be found to mean something other than first impressions suggest.  They can be most important and therefore not to be ignored in the hope that they were about someone else.

 I have in the past, had countless dreams about toilets or washrooms, and the disgust that I felt almost prevented me from looking into them.  However, through persistent analysis, I grew to understand that they were about my dichotomy between sexuality and spirituality, from my absorption of childhood indoctrination through a religion that viewed the female as responsible for the loss of mankind's' spiritual connection.  Though I have to admit that I was perhaps particularly affected, being so sensitively receptive to those teachings. 

 Interpreting dreams may initially require help until a point is reached where you can take over.  You may find that when your dreams become significantly active, someone may come into  your life who, for a time, can help you until you are able to interpret your dreams yourself.  Writing a dream down can bring an instant realisation, or talking a dream through with a friend can also help you to understand the meaning.   Interpreting your own dreams, however, is part of the development process, the effort made enables a greater understanding than is otherwise possible.

 When you are consciously working with your dreams, you can rely on them to guide you, to answer your questions and to let you know what it is within, what you are struggling so hard to understand.

 Being open to dreams, or asking for them, provides the potential for all of us to have prophetic or informative and helpful dreams, especially at very difficult times in life.    We are entitled to have help, and by asking for it we take an active part in the process.  So, if you are having problems in a relationship, work or family situation, 'asking' for a dream to help you understand can produce invaluable results.

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An advantage of working with your dreams is that you can choose when and where you spend time on them.  Besides, dreams are free.

If you are open to the idea of dreams having meaning and purpose, with the intention of analysing and understanding them, you will find that they can become a valuable part of your life. 

Interpreting dreams can be a challenge, yet the meaning will always be accessible through the effort that you make.   They are your personal guidance, a gift, and therefore not an unfathomable mystery about someone else.

Dream symbols are unlikely to be literal, or one dimensional.  Each symbol contains layers of meaning and the more practised that you are at interpretation, the more meaning you will be able to access. 

To begin interpreting a dream, stand back, as if looking from a distance.  What does your image remind you of?  Look at each detail as well as the setting or scenery.   What does it make you think of, what are the actions about, and what is happening in your own life?  If there are people as symbols in the dream, what do they remind you of?  What do they bring to mind?  Most importantly, how does each symbol feel, or make you feel?   How does the dream as a whole make you feel?  The feelings are the energy that contain the information.

Dreams are a wonderful and vital portal to the subconscious.  Each of us has a subconscious, which has many levels.  Within our subconscious lies the accumulation of experiences in the form of energy.   The experiences come from childhood and from past lives.  The superimposition of the energy of experience composes our personality, manifesting as reaction, habit, judgement, fear (survival), which masks or overshadows the individuality, the true person. 

Therefore, consciously and unconsciously, we each relate to and therefore judge and decide all incoming information according to our 'personality'.  The result cannot be other than biased or clouded.  The personality, no matter how bizarre and apparently unstable, is not the true person and can be cleared or dissipated (in terms of energy), so that no-one, from this point of view, is beyond help or 'cure'.

The accumulation of energy of experience, or the personality, determines the way in which we each live our lives, since we live within the framework of our personality energy, and to a great extent unconsciously.   Until we become aware, we are largely unable to move on from our personality structure, but remain living through a constricted flow.  Like a record that has jammed at a certain place, we continually repeat the same section, unable to move forward to the next bar.  In this way, crisis develops as the energy increases through repeated patterns.  That has been (and still is) the way that change is most often made, a build up of energy into crises.  The more traumatic, the bigger the forward move, in a development sense. 'Personality' is not negative, but the design of the development pathway to the 'self'.  However, we are now in a time where conscious awareness is increasing, providing the potential for clearing and forward movement at a more rapid rate than has been so far. 

Dream work is a part of this process.  It allows each of us to come to realise aspects of ourselves that have previously been experienced in the form of unconscious reactions, that often result in life difficulties and traumas.  Working with your dreams means that you can allow those buried aspects to come to the surface to be cleared, once the underlying meaning is understood.  Working with your dreams also means that you can progress at your own pace.