Dream Interpretation

 

Sometimes people who have long gone, appear and talk to you as if nothing as happened. Or you are fleeing down a long dark alley, crazy with panic because a shadowy monster is chasing you. And the old familiarity of recurring themes- a bus which can not stop, a train from which you are falling, someone dies.  Perhaps you sob and your whole body falls into spasms of grief and loss. Sometimes you are so filled with joy that you drift away on a breeze.

When you wake, you sense the dream had great significance, but you don’t know what it is.

Since ancient times, humans have interpreted their dreams because they recognized that dreams are one of most intimate ways of being connected to our deepest creative self.

One of the first recorded dream interpretations is from the Old Testament. Joseph of the many colour coat interpreted the Egyptian pharaoh’s dreams and because of his correct interpretation, the Egyptian nation survived seven years of drought. From the story of Joseph, I speculate that in the absence of modern technology and warming systems, ancient peoples turned to dreams to warn them of coming disasters.

The physics of dreaming is complex and little understood by contemporary psychologists and brain scientists. Dreaming is absolutely necessary for each incarnate being. It is how we maintain the life force within us. Scientific study subjects, who are consistently woken when they start to dream, enter a psychotic state within days. This is because dreams are one of the most direct ways we return to the source of our being.

Dreams guide us to release the past, integrate the present and plan for the future. Our dreams connect us with all other beings in a mysterious collective unconsciousness.

Today we have rich teachings from many traditions which can help us interpret these deep messages from soul. I will be sharing some of these traditions in April at the Boat House. Please check my website for details.

 

We dream for ourselves, our community and for the world.

 

Try This!

 

1)   Record a recent or powerful recurring dream. Connect this dream to a past experiences, and see what new insight the dream brings to it.

 

2)   Now, bring your dream mythology into the present-what is happening right now that pertains to the dream?

3)   Finally, what does the dream tell you about the future? Is it a warning, a guide, a nudge in the right direction?

 

4)   Record and commit to some action which will embody your new realization.