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Dream dictionaries offer great insight, but they aren't the only ways to interpret the often strange symbols that come late at night.
Interpreting dreams is only part "dream" dictionary. The other part is compiling the multiple meanings of the image or symbol throughout a variety of different sources.
Just because something came to you in a dream, doesn't mean that the image is unique to the dreamworld. In other words, water symbolizes emotions. It doesn't matter if you dreamt it, crave it, or are drawn to it. In each case it the symbolism is the same. Certain animals represent certain qualities—again, whether dreamt, envisioned during a journey, or seen over and over again in the waking world.
There's also morphic fields. These are symbols that gain traction due to the large amount of belief and truth poured into them. Words, colors, animals, emotions… all of these actually mean something and physically and energetically affect us because of the energy put into the image and symbol over the course of years and years of belief. Ie: we all have an interpretation of pink and baby blue based upon the morphic fields created around these colors, not only that, but these colors actually change the way people act around them, when viewing them, or while wearing them.
Webster's dictionary, wikipedia, resources for herbal remedies, totem animals, chakras, pagan practices, mythology, religion, folklore, even greeting cards are all fantastic resources for helping you discover the meaning to your dream symbols.
We also create our own images. For some people a house with a front porch may symbolize the comfort and acceptance of home. For others a house with a porch may be a symbol of fear and hatred, depending on the events of that person's life. How we feel about a certain animal or person means much when that image appears in a dream. People who keep dream journals often discover the meanings of certain recurring images upon reading through their journals weeks, or even years later.
The other side of the coin is putting the stream of symbols together into something meaningful. This isn't always easy. Dreams have a tendency to jump from one moment to another, and it's not always easy to tell if each jump is related to the prior one, or if it is a new story all its own. Sometimes the dream itself is so obvious we overlook it.
For example, often when I'm dreaming of water or bathrooms, it's because my bladder is full, and not because of any deep seeded emotional issue I need to resolve. It's the combination of outside events, current life situations, personal emotions, and symbols that make a truly complete dream interpretation.
Visit our Community page to learn more about interpreting your dreams and symbols via some of our fantastic healers and readers like Vera Remes, Sarah Loukos, and me, Danielle Rose
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