Dream Interpretation

Dream Interpretation - Instructions How to Interpret and Analyze Your Dreams

You can interpret your dreams!Your dreams are full of symbols and allegories. (Stories that are told that have a meaning other than the story itself.) When you venture into the realm of dream interpretation you must try to decode your dream, you need to dissect it into the separate fragments and examine each for its particular meaning. Each one contains a small nugget of the whole picture. Dreams are composed of a collage of little parts of your own life experience that are stored away in your brain symbolically.

Simply using a dictionary of dreams can be misleading, because these interpretations had a value to the composer of the list, which may have been a part of his or her personal experience. Someone else’s experiences don’t create the same symbols that your own mind has created. You need to develop your own set of interpretations for the symbols that are particular to your own life’s experiences.

Divide and conquer!That is one of the basic strategies that military commanders have known since antiquity. Splitting your opponent’s concentrated power into sizable chunks makes it that much easier to overcome him. Then he can be taken out piece by piece. This is the strategy to use in dream interpretation, Divide and analyze!

Here are some of the basic parts in most dreams:

You: You are directly involved or observing yourself.
Other actors: Each one is a separate actor.
The scene: There can be more than one.
The action: There can be more than one.
The object: There can be a theme or an object involved.
The end result: End results are not present in all dreams.
The technique: Take every part of the dream and separate it from the rest. Use a separate piece of paper to record your observations. With each part do the following: Recalling from your own memory; what feelings this part has for you, what memories does it evoke, who and what does it remind you of, what impression do you have for it. Add every notion you can come up with. Restrict your analysis strictly to each individual part, and not how it played a role in the dream.
After you have done this with all the parts, review what is going on in your life at the present time. Now you are ready to fit the puzzle together. Remember, you are the only one who has the information to make the final interpretation. It’s all stored in the memory bank of your brain

Health Dreams InterpretationWhat Are They Telling You?

A Health Dream is one way your body can signal you when something’s wrong or needs your attention. Pain is a tool to tell you something is wrong. There are other things that are signals that are indicators about your health, not feeling well, dizziness, weakness, etc. Dreams are another way that you can find out about your health. Your subconscious will sometimes get your attention through your dreams.

Below are a few simple examples of Health Dreams that will demonstrate this. Remember to use the ‘Divide and analyze’ technique to interpret all dreams.

Jackie’s first encounter with food while sleeping was a novelty. In a dream someone was feeding food to her and she was eating it. The whole thing seemed amusing to her. Some time later, she had another dream involving food. However, the second dream wasn’t so amusing. When the food arrived at her face, it was being forcibly being crammed down her throat so that she couldn’t breath. She woke up in a terror gasping for air, her heart pounding away. It took a while before she could return to sleep. Upon awakening, her first thought was about the dream. She felt as though a mean person was trying to punish her with the food. It was then that she assessed herself realistically; she had recently put on quite a bit of weight, she ate constantly and made light of the fact as though it was an accomplishment to be proud of. Now she realized that her body was protesting her abuse of it and that her recently acquired eating habit was not a laughing matter. This second dream woke her up and she began a weight loss program to lose
the excess baggage.

Jackie didn’t recognize what the first dream was trying to tell her. When she didn’t respond accordingly, her subconscious turned up the heat to get its message across.

Lisa played worked out at the gym and played tennis regularly. She was in her thirties and in the best of health. In her Health Dream a neatly dressed man kept staring at her breasts, she felt self-conscious and turned away trying to ignore him. He appeared in front of her again still staring at her, and while still in the dream, she noticed that one of her breasts was larger than the other. Upon awakening she examined herself and discovered a lump on the right side. She consulted a physician and began treatment immediately.

Lisa’s subconscious mind gave her an early warning signal to check herself out. She had neglected to do this previously because of her excellent physical condition.

Your subconscious mind is aware of everything that is going on in your body. It tries to talk to you when you are awake, but if that doesn’t work, it can use your dreams as the communication link. You just need to analyze your dreams and look for the meanings.

Interpretation of a psychological dream

Life’s experiences sometimes rub us the wrong way. When something happens that contradicts our sense of ‘what ought be’ regarding our view of right or wrong, good and bad, it can make us pretty unhappy and affect our outlook on life. Unfulfilled wishes and desires are another have much the same effect.

Through our dreams, the subconscious mind tries to provide us with just the right dream at just the right time, to compensate for the many things that cause our peace of mind to get out of balance.

If we have fears, it tries to feed us those fears little by little in coded dreams to help us overcome them. Occasionally it uses the brute force of a nightmare to get its point across.

If we have unfulfilled desires it may provide us with a substitute to alleviate the sense of lacking.
Some of these dreams are pretty straight forward and at other times they are embedded in deeply symbolic presentations taken from our own memory bank of experiences. To solve the riddle of our dreams we need to sort out the feelings, meanings, and the memories of what all these symbols mean to us from our experience.

Here are a few simple examples:

Right and wrong
Art is a hard working and honest immigrant from Hungary who scrapping to make ends meet. He has a Hungarian friend named Hector who made a false claim for a faked injury on a train platform in NYC. Even though he had no witnesses to his fall, the city paid him a large amount of money to settle the claim. Art is dismayed and almost delirious with anger. How could his friend be rewarded for dishonesty while he worked so hard just to get by. He became discouraged and his outlook on life and sense of right and wrong suffered.

Several months later Art had a vivid dream. He witnessed his friend Hector being arrested for fraud, the police handcuffed him and a nearby judge ordered him deported back to Europe. End of dream.

Was his friend really arrested or deported? No. It only happened in Art’s dream. But as he told the story of the dream, there was a sense of relief in his voice that somehow justice was done. His subconscious delivered Art back to his old cheery self through a dream. It gave him a substitute for justice in a dream which he accepted.

Her fear overcome

The upper bridge in Margaret’s mouth became loose one day. It didn’t actually come out, it just loosened a bit. The thought of it falling out in front of other people petrified her. She didn’t have a lot of money and couldn’t get it repaired. She lived in constant fear of this happening and for months ate liquid foods hoping to prevent it from happening. Then she had a dream. In the dream the thing she feared most happened. The bridge fell out in front of a lot of people. Then she just took it and pushed it back in her mouth and it stayed there. End of dream.
She stopped worrying about her bridge falling out. That was approximately five years prior to
the telling of the dream and it still hadn’t fallen out.

These are examples of how the subconscious mind helps to keep us in balance psychologically. Although the actual cause for the worry and concern was not really resolved for these two people, a dream provided them with a substitute for the real thing.
Other dreams may not be so straight forward and may require the use of the divide and analyze technique.