Dream Interpretation

Intepretating your dreams

Everybody has dreams.  But many people simply dismiss them as little night stories your mind tells you.  At least we do when we discuss our dreams with others because we want to appear educated and untroubled by whatever is in the world on the other side of our subconscious.  But at the same time, it is easy to wonder what is the meaning of all those strange circumstances and images that seem to flood your mind at night.  To date you may not have considered trying to get some interpretations of what you see in your dreams.  But it might be time to reconsider that approach and to give your dream life some serious consideration because it might be trying to tell you something.

The entire area of dream interpretation is misunderstood because too often it is connected to fortune telling.  The idea of going to a gypsy who reads the lumps on your head and uses cards to interpret your future is offensive to a thinking person.  So the first thing to understand is that looking for the meaning of your dreams is not fortune telling and it is not looking for messages from the great beyond that "the spirits" might be telling you in your sleep.  Those kind of Dream Interpretation systems exist but they are not all there is to trying to understand your dream life.

There is an approach to understanding dreams that is logical, scientific and based on what we know about the mind.  It is an area of study that has been a legitimate part of psychology for a long time.  Some of the greatest thinkers in the world of psychology and psychiatry such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung wrote serious scientific studies into the Meaning of Dreams and the value of understanding what they are saying for knowing your own mind.

"Know thyself" is one of the oldest philosophical ideas in our culture which dates back as far as the Greek thinkers that are the foundation of society as we know it.  But much of how we think and how our minds work is hidden from us.  The mind is a mysterious thing because a big part of how we think is the "intuitive" part of our minds and what happens in the subconscious.  So by understanding dreams, we can peek into what the subconscious is saying and it can help us understand ourselves a lot better.

So it is worth it to overcome any preconceptions you might have about looking at your dreams as something more than little night "movies" or stories.  The field of dream interpretation is not the occult or fortune telling.  By approaching it as part of knowing your own psychology and using dreams to connect to that other side of who you are which is your subconscious, you can get a lot of good from understanding your dreams better.  It will make you sleep better at night too and that is always a great goal for any of us.