In a nutshell: Making sense of the dreamworld

"Ever since the inception of civilization dreaming has fascinated humanity," Tamara Rokicki writes. 

Whether an exhilarating or frightening, dreams reach deep into our psyches and find the soft places that have deep meaning—often only to us.

In The Inconspicuous Dream, Tamara shares how she finally made peace with a life-long recurring dream.

"Sometimes we spend an immeasurable amount of time hoping to decipher the darkest, deepest crooks of our minds, but what if they’re meant to remain that way?

In A Dreamy Interview with Jefferson Harman, Jefferson explains that dreams are conversations with one's higher self that come through in a way that we can accept.  Disturbing dreams come when we aren't paying attention—when we are focused on one thing, but the important information is flying around in the periphery.

"[Dream symbols] come at particular moments, because it's something specific that they're revealing to us in that moment," Jefferson said.

In Online Dream Interpretation, Charla Dury explains that "How my brain processes my environment and my feelings is shown in my dream world."  She shares with us some of her symbols and how she interprets them with the help of online dream dictionaries.

In Using Personal Symbols to Interpret Dreams, Danielle Rose explains that a myriad of sources including fiction, religion, totem animals and even wikipedia can be utilized as "dream" dictionaries.

"Just because something came to you in a dream, doesn't mean that the image is unique to the dreamworld," Danielle said.

For me, dreams are places where I can work on projects that couldn't possibly exist in this world, places where I can meet people I can't communicate with on the earth plane and make peace with them (which can take years, as I remember happening with one estranged ex from my twenties).  It's also a place where I can learn more about myself and my personal path.

Check out our posts from this week to delve deeper into dream symbols and interpretation and get more from your sleep each night!

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