Kevin J. Todeschi speaks on dream interpretation and the Edgar Cayce readings. Recorded at A.R.E.'s Virginia Beach headquarters From Your Inner Oracle Conference
Dreams, Imagination and Symbolism, Jan. 17, 2004.

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I received a dream from a young professional woman named Suzy. When relating the dream to me, she felt the dream was about her and because of the details of the dream she was very alarmed. After hearing the revelation of the dream, she was pleasantly amazed to find out that the dream was not about her at all, but intended for a close friend she had known for many years. More friendship dreams at: DreamMessenger.com

The dream opens at night and Suzy is outside her friend's house standing on the lawn looking at the front door. After a moment, she slowly climbs the steps, crosses the wooden porch and enters the house. Upon entering the dimly lit house, Suzy's friend meets her and they walk down a hallway into her friend's bathroom. When inside the bathroom, Suzy asks her friend how her mother was doing and her friend tells her that her mother was dead; she had committed suicide in the bathroom they were standing in.

Hearing this, Suzy looks around the bathroom for some evidence of a suicide, but quickly noticed that the bathroom was very clean with no visible signs of blood, absolutely no trace that anyone had committed suicide. Her friend seeing what she was doing quickly spoke out and said that she had cleaned the bathroom up and removed all signs of her mother's death.

Quietly listening to her friend, Suzy watched the bathroom suddenly change from the bathroom in her friend's house to her own bathroom. As she watched the transformation, she had the odd feeling that they were still standing in her friend's bathroom. The only difference was that the bathroom they were in was freshly painted a bright white, and the bathroom door was now opened inward, hiding the inside of the bathroom door.

Suzy's friend walked over, closed the bathroom door which now revealed a blood-stained door. Not responding to the blood covering the inside of the door, Suzy's friend picked up a white towel, walked over and joined her in the middle of the bathroom. Uneasy seeing the blood, Suzy stood in the center of the room and simply continued to stare at the bloody surface of the door.

Silently standing next to each other. Suzy friend finally turns to says, "I'm going to wipe the blood off." Then quietly taking the towel she starts to wipe the blood off the door, as Suzy watches. Yet, try as she may she cannot remove the blood, but only is able to smear on the surface of the door. Confused, Suzy continues to watch her friend try to wipe the blood off the door, but suddenly wakes up out of the dream.

The Interpretation Of The Dream Using Each Key Word: Night/Darkness represents uncertainty, fear and the unknown for Suzy in regard for her friend. Outside the House represents freedom, escape, refuge and safety. Suzy standing on the lawn of the front yard represents her willingness to help her friend. Old House represents memories, family members and old friendships. Old house also represents the mending of old problems and disputes. To see an Old house in a dream also represents sickness, failing health, and even the death of someone dear to the dreamer or someone the dreamer knows, especially if the old house is run-down or in need of repair.

Steps and Wooden Porch, In Suzy's dream, the house has steps and a wooden porch, so it is evident that the house is old and therefore represents an old friend, habit, fleshly urges or temptation. The house also represented an old friend, who is in spiritual and emotional distress. On the outside of the house are several steps leading up to a wooden porch and the front door.

After standing outside the house for a few moments, Suzy climbs the steps, walks across the porch, opens the front door and enters her friend's home. The Steps Leading Up To the Porch represent insight, understanding, revelation, decision, and the answer to a situation or problem that seems to have no answer. Steps also represent change and a new beginning. In Suzy's dream, the steps represent a decision that will lead to a fresh start and a new beginning for her friend.

The Porch, especially an open, unenclosed front porch represents the revealing of hidden secrets that are suddenly put on display for all to see. Closed Front Door represents a problem or obstacle in the natural preventing the dreamer from achieving a goal or completing a project. It also represents a dead-end job, broken marriage, relationship or a serious illness. A closed door also represents secrets, lies, idolatry, fear, treasure, private matters and the unknown. In Suzy's dream, the closed door represents a secret lifestyle that is driving her friend to emotional and spiritual disaster.

Dimly-lit represents hope, revelation and the answer to a problem, situation or a spiritual or emotional concern in your life. In some dreams, light, even the light of a candle also represents a messenger. In Suzy's dream, the dimly-lit home represented deep-rooted spiritual and emotional problems in her friend's life, and it was for this reason that she was brought there to encourage and be a messenger of hope and help.

Walk / Hallway To walk slowly or stagger down a narrow place, such as the hallway in Suzy's dream represents fear, doubt, remorse, disorder, the unknown and confusion. To walk in a humble or lowly way represents depression, persecution and bondage. To have difficulty walking in a dream represents trials and emotional or physical problems.

In Suzy's dream, even though they both walked down the hallway together, Suzy followed behind her friend as she slowly walked down the hallway and into the bathroom. In Suzy's dream, walking and hallway represent fear, doubt, remorse, insecurity, disorder, confusion, depression, persecution, the unknown and bondage because of something that had entered or re-entered her life.

The Bathroom represents escape, refuge, repentance, prayer, admission and creativity. Bathroom also represents surrender, lust, sexual desires, guilt, secrets, deception and betrayal. In Suzy's dream, the bathroom is a refuge, a place of escape to think and ponder in her guilt because of her sexual desires and the secret sexual affair in which she is involved.

Death / Dead / Suicide represents failure, to give up, surrender or to escape. In some dreams, death represents a refuge. In Suzy's dream, the suicide of her friend's mother in the bathroom did not actually happen in the natural, but in the dream it represented her friend shedding the emotional and physical security she had known all of her life depicted in the portrayal of her mother's suicide; and as a consequence, she was able to surrender to her own fleshly desires. This was something she could not have done as long as she thought of her mother as being alive.

The Freshly Painted White Bathroom Wall/Blood/Clean/White Towel and Blood Smear In Suzy's dream represents the covering up of her friend's secret, hidden lifestyle and regaining the memory of how her life once was. The blood-covered bathroom door represents the guilt she feels for the lifestyle she is now leading; and her effort to clean the blood off the inside of the bathroom door with the thick white towel, only able to smear the blood over the surface of the door represents her inability through her own strength and will power to change her lifestyle, end the affair, lessen her guilty feelings and get her life back to normal.

Suzy's friend's mother in the dream represented the guilt the friend felt that her mother knew about her daughter's secret. A suicide symbolizes release from feeling guilty in the eyes of her mother.

The Outcome Of The Dream

This dream unlike many of the other dreams of this nature had a good outcome. After Suzy received the interpretation of her dream, she went to her friend's home and told her of the dream. Her friend began crying and confessed the affair she was having with a married man and her futile efforts to try to end the affair. With Suzy's help and counsel to her friend, Suzy's friend ended the affair and she soon returned to her normal life.

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Here is some information about some common dream images to get you started:

Dreams with Animals:

Animals pop up everywhere in our lives and, in turn, in our dreams. The subject of what animals mean in our dreams is as large as the number of animals there are to dreams about. Wild animals usually symbolize a sense of power or perhaps even a feeling of being out of control and domestic animals can mean the opposite a feeling of being "trained" or out of control. I could probably write ten pages in the impact of animals on dream interpretation alone. However, for this post, I will try to stick to addressing only a few of the most common.

The appearance of a lion in your dream usually symbolizes a feeling of raw strength, pride, power, or kingship. If you are the lion or the lion is your ally these symbols are most likely referring to something within yourself. Do you feel powerful and strong? If the Lion is attacking you or someone you know takes on the appearance of a lion, the your subconscious might be trying to draw your attention to a danger that your conscious mind has yet to recognize. Look at what else is going on in your dream or at the person taking on the dream shape and then take a closer look at what aspect of your life you think they are pointing to.

A dog appearing in your dream usually signifies exactly what dogs stand for, devotion and faithfulness. Did you have a dream about your husband playing with a dog? If you did, you probably feel pretty secure in your relationship. Unless of course, you hate dogs... then you have a whole different issue!

Cats are know for their mysterious nature, their independence, and their leisurely comfortable life. Wouldn't it be great to live the life of a cat? Lying around on comfortable chairs, then eating food prepared for you by your man servant before sunning yourself at a window with a beautiful view while you enjoy a nap? If your dreaming about cats, the image of the cat in your dream could be referring to just that. You could either be seeking or relaxed cat-like life or you are enjoying the fact that you already have it.

Dreams about Falling:

Falling dreams are a very common occurrence in dreams and one of those most talked about. While these dreams are usually scary, they may not always mean something. The body goes through cycles all night long, cycling between several different phases. As the body transcends into a deeper state of sleep, the complete relaxation of the body can often feel like falling. Many of have even experienced this sensation as we first drift off to sleep at night and it's quite common for your body to respond to this feeling with a reflexive jump that wakes you from sleep. That jump was the body's effort to try to protect itself from the impact it was expecting to come at the end of the imaginary falling sensation.

However, falling in a dream can also reveal something significant about your life. This type of dream most commonly occurs when a person feels like they have failed at something or when they feel overwhelmed by the their current circumstances. If you are having trouble sleeping due to common dreams of falling try sleeping with a pillow or other cushion pressed against your feet at night. The sensory stimulation to the soles of your feet will give your body the sensation of security and stability and has been known to drastically reduce the occurrence of falling dreams.

Dreams about a House or Apartment:

Dreaming about a house or apartment is almost as big a subject as animals. But, dwellings of some sort show up in most dreams so it is definitely worth covering some of their possible meanings here.

* Dreams being at home - Home is where you go to feel safe and comfortable. If you are in your own house or apartment you may be going there unconsciously to give your mind the opportunity to work through some difficult or chaotic activities that are happening in the outside world.

* Dreams about an unfamiliar house - These houses usually represent some aspect of you and can often be looked at as a physical extension of yourself. As you look at this house consider how it might relate to where you are in life right now. A big house may be trying to telling that you should expand your horizons. If you have taken on a big project that you are worried about being able to keep up with, you may dream about living in a mansions but being stressed about the maintenance of it.

* Building a house - dreams about building a house could be you're looking for more security in your life or expand on the life's foundation which you have already laid. This is a great time to start thinking about your future, your subconscious is already trying to tell you what you want and it will be easier to get in touch with that and decide your next big move.

Dreams about Flying:

Flying Dreams are one of the most common dreams. Almost everyone experiences a dream that involves flying at least once in their life while some dream about flying nightly. There has been a lot of speculation over the years about why we experience flying dreams so commonly. Some cultures even believe that individuals who are highly attuned to their spiritual side can have out of body experiences during sleep, and these dreams are actually memories of your spirit projecting itself and exploring during the night.

Dreams tend to show us our fears and hopes. So it is first important to consider how you felt during your dream about flying. If you felt happy or joyful during this dream, it may be reflecting a recent transcendence in your life. You've recently overcome a difficult situation or successfully gotten past an event that was worrying you. In these cases, the dream is reminded you to rejoice and enjoy your moment of victory. Your dream may also be drawing from a general feeling of peace and happiness in your life that has been ongoing for a while. If this is the case, congratulations!

Relax and enjoy the sites as your dream takes you exploring. If you experience a feeling of fear during you flying dream your mind maybe attempting to give itself an inner exposure therapy treatment. This type of treatment, often used by psychiatrists to treat individuals with severe phobias focuses around confronting your fear. In this case you may likely have a fear of heights, falling (see more about falling above), or even vertigo (the sense of being dizzy). While these dreams can often be disturbing there is a way to overcome them. Dreams about fears will cease once you have faced the fear and successfully negotiated the dream. Find a mantra that's meaningful to you, such as "In my dreams I have wings, and can control my flight and go where I choose, no harm can come to me." and repeat this to yourself as you are falling asleep each night. In this was you can control the outcome of your dream and tur
n the feeling of fear to a feeling of joy as you embrace the experience and grow past it.

Dreams about Death:

The interpretation of dreams about death is highly subjective depending on the the dreamers personal feeling about death and their religious beliefs. Often time, people dream about death in the process of coming to terms with their own mortality. If the dream includes a feeling of fear or anxiety, your subconscious mind may be trying to tell you that you need to come to terms with your own mortality. Life is a gift, but it's only temporary and, as many people believe, only a stepping stone to the next life. Whether the next life for you is eternity in heaven or rebirth to live life again, your body knows that you need to be comfortable with the idea that you are not going to stay in this life forever.

Once you come to terms with this fact, your dreams may evolve into dreams, that still include death, but are now based around the celebration of a good life and happy memories. If you've reached this stage in your death dreams, congratulations! You're subconscious is recognizing you and celebrating your own spiritual growth.

If you dream about a loved one dying, you may literally be afraid of their inevitable death or you might be experiencing a feeling of insecurity. Perhaps you're afraid that you're spouse is going to leave you or you children are about to move out of the house or head off to college. On a happier note, if the person you are dreaming about has recently made a change and eliminated a particular personality trait that you disliked, you might be celebrating it's passing from your life.

And remember, no matter what the old wives tales might tell you. If you die in your dream you don't die in life. Don't let your fear of death wake up up and stop you from moving forward to fully see what your dream is trying to tell you.

Dreams about Water:

Water is frequently considered a symbol for your emotions when it is present in a dream. Most people can tell exactly your dream water is symbolizing simply by remember how you felt during the dream when you looked at the water in question. Here are some hints when considering your water dreams.

* Large Bodies of Water - Oceans and seas usually represent our vast and complex emotional mind. A stormy sea may represent a feeling of turmoil while a sunny sailboat trip can signify a feeling of freedom and the ability to explore your own feelings without restraint.

* Rivers - A river in your dream can represent your emotional journey either through life or through the current situation. The state of this river will also tell you have strong and out of control your emotions are or how restrained you might be in experiencing those emotions. If you are trying to cross the river in your dreams, your own emotions may be getting in the way of where you want to go with your life. Take some time to look at how you feel about a decision, are those feelings holding you back?

* Muddy Water - If water represents your emotions, muddy water represents your emotions when they aren't cleaned properly! Your emotions may be confused or unhealthy, you may even being having harmful thoughts and suffering from depression. Take a good look at yourself when you have this dream.

* Where are you and where is the water? - If you are in the water then you are at probably one with your emotions. Or are you attempting to avoid your feelings completely by skirting around the edge?

* Drowning - What would a water section be if I didn't mention drowning? You may be able to figure this one out for yourself by now but I'll sum it up for you anyway. Feeling overwhelmed by your emotions? I bet you are, a dream about drowning most often has absolutely nothing to do with drowning at all. Instead it tell of a struggle between you and your own subconscious mind as you try to take control of your emotions. Who's winning the battle? Do you make it out of the water or actually drown?

Dreams about being Chased:

Ah, the famous "I'm being chased" dream. These dreams are very powerful and are one of the most common causes of kicking your partner in your sleep. So what does it all mean? Usually in running dreams you are running from someone or something that you are extremely afraid of. You should stop, turn around and take a good look at what it is your running from because it's probably yourself or, more accurately, some part of yourself that you don't like.

The interpretation of dreams about being chased is a varied as there are possibilities in pursuers. If someone is trying to rape you, you might be afraid of or feel guilty about having sex. If you're being chased by an animal go back up and read about animals again. Do you have qualities of that animal in yourself that you don't like?

The good (sort of) news about dreams about being chased is that they are frequently recurring. This is a great opportunity to practice the ability to control your dreams. We all have this ability, and if you can harness it and turn around and face your attacker boldly, you will overcome this inner struggle quicker both in your dreams and in life.

Dreams with Cars:

The first step in deciphering a car dream is taking a good look at what kind of car it is. if you are driving a fancy sports car may indicate that you have a sense of success or power in your life or someone else you know may be telling you that you feel that person has power over you. Driving an off road vehicle may be your mind trying to tell you that you are long overdue for an adventure and a sedan or SUV may indicate the opposite, that you are ready to settle down and maybe even start a family.

If you dream of being in a car accident, it may be an indicator of very serious problems in your life. The size of the accident is normally proportionate to the size of the problem. Hopefully you have this dream early enough that you can use it as a warning for the impending problem in your life. Take a good look at who else was in the accident, especially who was in the other car.

Dreams about being Lost:

A lot of times, dreams about being lost are quite simply a representation of feeling lost in your waking life. A person can be lost in many ways including loneliness, confusion, loss, or even lost in a new town. Before you go to far into trying to understand what else this dream might mean, consider your life and see if there are any aspects of your life that are making you feel lost right now.

Dreams about mazes or labyrinths often indicate confusion over a choice or series of choices you have to make. As you travel down turn after turn the outcome of your choice of turns could indicate just how deep your level of confusion runs. Did you reach the end after only a few choices or are you still trying to find your way out?

Dreams about being Naked:

Although I've never personally had a dream about being naked unless it's as part of the subject coming after this one, my reading tell me almost everyone else has. This is a difficult theme to interpret because it is highly dependent on your culture and how you personally feel about nudity. For this short post we'll focus on the western society and the idea that public nudity is a bad thing and suddenly finding yourself out in public with no clothes on can be quite a shock to the system

If you find yourself in one of these embarrassing situations while you sleep you are most likely expressing a feeling of vulnerability or exposure. Students who dream or showing up at school naked are most like feeling vulnerable at school, perhaps they are the target of the class bully or maybe they uncomfortable with themselves and how they feel
they compare to their classmates. Businessmen who stand up in the board room to give a speech naked may be feeling the pressure of an upcoming project or delivery weighing heavily on the future of their job.

For those of you who embrace public nudity and have no feelings of anxiety during your dream. This is a very positive image dealing with openess and honesty. If your significant other is hanging around you with no clothes on throughout a dream, in a non-sexual nature, then you most likely enjoying your trust in them. On the other hand if it's you that is naked then you are likely to be rejoicing your openness with the people also involved in your dream or even the world.

Dreams about Sex:

And finally, dreams about sex. I saved this one for last because I knew it would be the most fun to write about, and think about... (ahem). Interpreting dreams about sex are yet another highly subjective topic that varies greatly based on the person. This dream can mean something different depending both on how you felt during the dream and how you feel about sex in general.

First of all, regardless of what your priest might say, the endorphins released when you achieve an orgasm are a great source of stress release and are also craved by your body. Your dream about sex may simply mean that it's just been to long and your body is tantalizing itself into relasing those endorphins without physical assistance. So before you try to analyze what your dream might mean, keep that in mind.

Fantasies - Many, many... way too many people have unfulfilled fantasies. If you dream about sex in a new and daring way, this could be your subconscious way of fulfilling your own fantasies especially if those fantasies are illegal or dangerous or simply against your moral fiber. Dreaming about them won't lead to the complications that actually performing them might.

Sexual Problems - You may be experiencing problems in your current sex life. Your mind may be trying to deal with going to long without a partner or work through some issues you are having in bed with your current partner. But sexual problems in dreams don't always translate directly into sexual problems in life. I always know when I'm ready to move on from a relationship because, every time, I dream of the man I'm seeing suddenly having a pencil thin penis. This isn't just because he's not satisfying me in bed, that may not even be the case. But he is always not satisfying my emotional needs.

Adolescence - This is probably the time in our live when dreams of a sexual nature are most prevalent. There really is no interpretation here other than the obvious one. You are discovering yourself sexually. Whether those dreams involve feelings of fear or anxiety about losing your virginity or endless nights of pleasure as your try new and different things in your sleep. Those dreams are most likely reflecting exactly how you feel in life.

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In our waking life, we go to places for a reason. We go to the cinema to watch a film (and possibly to hold hands with our date), we go to the park to take the day off and play a ballgame with friends (or ogle good-looking people), we go to the beach to dig our toes in the sand and take a dip in the waters (or again, ogle good-looking people). There is always a reason, one way or another.

In these days of busy lifestyle, few of us waste time going to places where we have no business. Which is why we should be thankful that when we dream, we have the luxury of going to places we have never been before.

And, just as in our waking life, it follows then that the places we go to in our dreams have an underlying meaning as well. Below is part two of dream interpretations of venues you find yourself in during your sleep.

Desert

Ordinarily, deserts are barren and lonely places. In a dream, they imply a state of being lost and wanting to arrive home or be found. But the great spaciousness and emptiness of the desert landscape can also be beneficial; it signals a silence and meditation your life may be needing.

Airplane

Airplanes symbolize flight, freedom, and escape from the mundane. So if you dream of being in an airplane, whether or not you have a fear of heights, it just means you need to face those fears of the unknown and be thankful for their possibilities. If you dream of being the pilot, then this is a good sign: it is an undertaking and journey which you have taken complete control of.

Backyard

Backyards are fenced-in spaces outside our houses which we don't want neighbors to see, or intruders to trespass. Thus, to dream of sweeping in a backyard, for instance, means you want to cleanse that part of you which you fear is laid bare to the public.

Bridge

Crossing a bridge means an inevitable transition in your life, a shift in lifestyle, belief, location, relationship, etc. Observe the sturdiness of the bridge, or if it shakes under your weight. Also, look at the water below if it's calm or treacherous, or if it is an abyss instead. All these are signs of your readiness to cross over.

Church

Church are obviously holy places, which in a dream means you are reevaluating your life and want to lead a more spiritual one. Dreams of being inside a church always is a sign of good luck. An alternative interpretation is that you are questioning authority in your life, as churches and religion in general operate on authority.

Kitchen

Kitchens in dreams evoke either hunger, not just for physical nourishment, but spiritual as well. If you dream of yourself cooking in a kitchen, filling the room with a warm, inviting aroma, it just means you are taking an active role in your life.

Hell

We all have our personal versions of hell, and it does not necessarily have to be the commonly-thought of underground place with burning sulfur and demons with spears. If you dream of being in a hellish place, you could be feeling guilt from a sin you may have committed, or else, it is a premature punishment you are imposing on yourself, even if you haven't really done anything wrong in the first place. Hell is a place of self-censorship, so take it easy on yourself.

Hospital

It depends whether you are the one confined in a hospital, or you are only visiting a sick friend. Hospitals in dreams are signs that make us aware of our mortality, and of course, our health. Also, a sense of authority and properness operates inside a hospital (uniforms, schedules, SOP's, dosages, doctor's orders, etc), and your little visit there in your dream implies a confrontation with authority you might be avoiding or looking forward to.

Field

Is it a barren field, or a lush green one? To dream of spacious fields imply a whole world of possibilities and potential for you, as if the ground is all prepared for new plantings. Then again, the saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” can also come into play here.

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Author: Neoli Marcos

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Neoli Marcos writes for PsychicGuild

When we dream there are common types of dreams that we have. They include digestive dreams (food), psychological, from the spiritual side, future, precognitive, new Information, knowledge, the dead or spiritual guides and context of our thoughts. Our conscious mind has no control over what we dream, they are always free spirited and derive from our conscious thoughts.

Even though dreams are studied scientifically, we all have differences in our genetic make-up that result in other possibilities when we dig deep and try to see what dreams are made of. There are many other factors that should really be considered while conducting your own dream analysis...

Other Elements that Effect Why People Dream

• Your childhood
• What happened during your day that was troubling?
• What are you fearful of?
• What do you desire and hope for?

By considering these important dream influencing elements you will be able to quickly zoom in on why people dream the dreams they do.

Sometimes dreams pregnant woman require dream analyzing to satisfy the curiosity of your subconscious mind. For example here are 3 dreams a pregnant woman may think about in her conscious day. An incubator, giving baby a kiss and doing the washing.

But What Does Each Dream Denote?

Babies in Incubators
Baby incubators seen in a dream are portents of better health for you and your family. Chicken incubators are an omen of being able to meet your obligations.

Getting and Giving Kisses
The portent of a kiss in a dream depends on the circumstances surrounding it. Kisses between married people are an omen of content; between unmarried people they predict happiness. A woman who dreams of kissing an old man will suffer disappointment. To dream of kissing a baby indicating success in a difficult undertaking. Kisses given in hypocrisy or contrary to moral code are a sign of illness or disgrace.

Cleaning Your Body and Clothes
If you dream of washing clothes in a tub, it presages that you will be called upon to act as peacemaker between quarreling lovers. Washing clothes in a machine portends a vacation with pay. To dream of washing your body is a sign of success in a new venture. If you wash a baby in a dream, you will find happiness in your home.
Dreams have been studied for ages...ancient people thought a dream was when the soul left the body to send and receive messages to a spiritual entity.

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Intuition is a real cognitive process.

Although you don't always realize it, you spend a portion of each night letting your unconscious spirit dance through your dreams, weaving elaborate scenes with shreds of your past, present, and (imagined) future. When you remember these images, they may fascinate, confuse, or frighten you. "Where was I?" "Who was that person?" "What does it all mean?"

From the very first documented dream in 3500 B.C. to the present day, people have been intrigued, mystified, guided, even governed by their dreams. Dreams may be fragments of an unresolved event from the past or of subconscious desires for the present. Your spirit may be trying to rise above your current situation and move forward into the future. Dreams can wreak havoc with peaceful slumber-or bring harmony to your life.Throughout history, the fascination with dreams has been universal. Ancient Egyptians approached dreams with religious reverence.

Greek writers and philosophers including Plato and Aristotle believed that during sleep humans and divine beings communicated, and that dreams were the memories of those conversations. Traditional Hawaiian culture teaches that during dreams, the human soul travels on journeys, meeting others and having important experiences.

But it is important to remember that each dreamers journey is a personal one. Only you can decipher the meaning behind the images that appear during unconscious slumber. Your spirit speaks to you at night through your dreams. Listen to its messages. Use the guide to help interpret dream meanings. Unravel the mysteries of your mind and sail with your creative soul on a ever sweeter dream journey. When we are awake, we think in words. When we are asleep we think in images.

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Author: Bryan Burbank

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If you have asked a question when you have had a particularly vivid dream about whether that dream might be trying to tell you something, you are not alone.  Most of us have the kind of dreams every so often that seem full of meaning.  The feeling of waking up feeling a sense of urgency because our dreams were trying to communicate something important to us is a common experience in all people.  We don't often talk about how powerful our dreams affect us like this because we don’t want our friends to think we are crazy.  But we store away these questions in our minds and in our hearts and the wondering about what we dream can become a haunting area of missing knowledge that you would feel so much better if you understood it all.

It helps to think through where dreams come from in the first place.  Psychologists tell us that we have another entire side to our minds, which is our subconscious side.  We know that is true because that side of our minds is so active all the time.  In fact, experts in sleep and dream research tell us that when our conscious mind takes a break, the subconscious mind is very active processing all of the information and events of the day and what is going on in our lives. 

They tell us also that the subconscious is as much a part of how we make decisions and "think and feel" about things as the conscious mind we think with.  Both sides of our personalities are always communicating in ways that we cannot always understand or even recognize.  Sometimes that feeling of having a "gut feel" about a decision is coming from your subconscious mind.  But psychologists also tell us that dreams is another way that the subconscious is presenting information to the conscious side of our brains and that there can be a lot of information and meaning in those dreams.

It might be pushing it to say your subconscious is "trying to tell you something" in your dreams.  Instead, there is good reason to believe that your subconscious is always communicating to you and dreams are one of the ways it expresses itself.  That means there may be lots to learn from dreams that can tell you about yourself and about your "true feelings" in regards to relationships, job, you worries and stresses and what is going on in the world.  And if there is information in your subconscious that can help you cope with those big challenges in life, why not understand it and put it to work by learning what dreams are saying and what we can learn from them?

The study of how to interpret the dreams we have can be come a real passion and hobby if you let it.  There are literally hundreds of books out and thousands of web sites that devote themselves to helping you put some meaning to the sometimes strange images and situations you find yourself in during your dream life.  Some of these dream image dictionaries and interpretive methods are based on studies done by credible scientists like Freud and Jung and some are not.

Knowing how the author or the web site or book came to this system of rules for dream analysis and how to interpret dreams will help you decide if his ideas are worth considering when you decide to interpret your own dreams to look for meaning beneath the surface.  You can actually find people who have written entire books giving detailed rules for dream analysis and how to interpret the images of dreams with no more knowledge of psychology or cultural imagery than you or I.  If the author of the book discusses his or her "method" for understanding dreams and it seems to involve revelation from some strange far away source or it is based on the author's personal genius alone, that may not be a guide to knowing what your dreams mean that you should follow.

Similarly be careful if the approach to understanding dreams that the book or web site you are looking at base their understanding on psychic readings, the occult or unusual religious texts.  Unless this is your orientation, those kinds of dream interpretation are as much fronts to "convert" you to their way of thinking of the world more than helping you understand what your dreams are telling you about your own mind.

The study of dreams and what they mean to you in terms of how your mind works and what your subconscious is trying to tell you is a legitimate field of study that is part of psychology and medical science and that has been subject to scholarly research for many decades.  This does not mean that your dreams do not have hidden meanings. 

In fact, the chances are they do.  But it does mean that there are reliable and legitimate sources of information out there to help you analyze your dreams correctly and then interpret what they mean.  You deserve that kind of high quality help with this important part of your life so make sure you insist any guide to your dream life lives up to that high standard.

The internet is an amazing source of information that has ushered in an information age like nothing we have ever experienced.  When you need to learn something new, we now turn to the internet first and to book resources after that and then only as a last resource.  So it stands to reason that when you want to learn more about how to analyze and interpret dreams, you would come to the internet first.

There are two levels of helpfulness that the internet can help you with when you want to know more about how to interpret dreams in general and how to interpret your dreams in particular.  The first level of helpfulness is in the area of education.  Dream analysis is a huge field of study that has had a great deal of scholarly work done on it by some of the finest minds in medical and psychiatric science.  Ever since Freud and Jung brought dream interpretation into the mainstream of psychology, the field has exploded with interest and study.

The outcome is that, like many areas of expertise, you can find huge volumes of data online about what has been learned about the subconscious and how the substance of our dreams can be interpreted to learn more about the mind and what is going on under the surface in the subconscious.  While the goal of seeking to learn all you can about dreams and how to understand them is entirely valid, there is a level of caution to be used when you look to the internet for that information.

Dream interpretation is a field that seems to attract a lot of people who do not handle the topic in a scholarly way.  And since the internet is a breeding ground for anyone with the money to buy a web site and a theory to promote, you can easily stumble into a lot of dream analysis sites that are promoting far fetched ideas, concepts of interpretation that take you into fortune telling or the occult or just crazy theories that people come up with that have no grounding in science.  So be alert that when you seek to expand your knowledge about dream analysis using online sources.  Be careful who you study so you only deal with respectable sources.

The second level of research that you might use the internet for concerning the understanding of the dream life is how to interpret your own dreams.  This gets trickier because if you are seeking an actual diagnosis of what your dreams might be telling you, using an online resource for that diagnosis is questionable at best.  Now, you can tap online dream dictionaries to understand the cultural imagery that may be appearing in your dreams. 

But dreams are very individual things so there is a limit to how specific an online analysis web site can get about what your dreams really mean to you.  If you know that limit and know how to use the internet wisely without letting it take you places in your interest in dream interpretation, the interent can be a wonderful valuable tool to help you take one more step to understanding the life of your subconscious.

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.