I don’t have a Shaman or a psychic on hand every time I have
a dream. In fact, I just plain don’t
have either of those folks in my life. I
do, however, have dreams. As we all
do. We may not remember them when we
wake up, but we all dream.
Since I don’t have a live dream interpreter handy, if a
dream is weird, troubling or interesting to me, I turn to www.dreammoods.com. There are a multitude of websites that claim
to be the “correct” interpretation of your dreams, all backed by someone or
other who says they know. I chose
dreammoods because #1, it was the first website of its kind that I had
seen, #2, It has a dream “dictionary” where images are sorted by letter that I
find very handy and #3, it has a convenient app for my iPhone.
I am such a child of technology, I tell you!
I figure this dream dictionary has been built by studiers who
delve into dream imagery and juxtapose it against the life events of the
dreamer in order to provide some sort of context—hence the relative continuity
of image definitions across multiple platforms.
There are even multiple definitions of images. It could mean this or it could mean that.
But back to knowing…
How would they know?
I mean, seriously…? How could
they know? Studiers of the brain know so little as it
is, no one really knows what a dream
means to an individual.
Why would you even seek answers then, Charla? If you are so sure that no one really knows what a dream means to you? Because I’m naturally curious what someone
else might think the images in my dream mean.
Sometimes a dream image or so-called “definition” of a dream
image will hit home as something I’m dealing with in my life and give me
pseudo-insight. And pseudo-insight can become deeper insight as I explore my
feelings, other images from my dream, and how they could connect within my life
at that moment. How my brain processes
my environment and my feelings is shown in my dream world.
There are certain images that hit home for me.
When my mother (deceased) appears in my dreams, I’m yearning
for comfort. This makes sense to me.
When I’m in a house in my dream, that house represents me
and rooms signify parts of me. Each room
or floor is a part of my psyche or soul and I can usually tell which part based
on the furniture/inhabitants of the room.
When I dream about school, being in school or class, it
signifies the expansion of learning or knowledge. Either it’s happening now or it needs to
happen. I need to expand my horizons or
they are being expanded for me.
When I see water, it represents my emotions and the state of
the water is a gauge of my emotional state.
These are my recurring dream images. They’re saved in my online dream
dictionary. They feel to be a given in
my dream world.
Do you have “given” images in your dream world and where do
you go for answers about your dreams?
Please post some of your dreams or dream symbols and what they mean to you,
or stop by tomorrow to discover more on dream interpretation.
or stop by tomorrow to discover more on dream interpretation.
I dream of water a lot. But it's never been clean or pretty water. I love water, so I've yet to figure this one out. I miss flying dreams.
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