Dream interpretation: Understanding Messages From Within-Part One

 

Sometimes dreams are powerful, clear and carry profound messages about health, relationships, life path, career-all aspects of being alive. There are other times where dreams are distant messages, faintly heard, nebulous, carrying import which is unrecognizable.

What can you do before you go to sleep to invite the deep messages that they can deliver?

Upon waking, how do you interpret the images and events in a way that makes sense to your everyday self?

The channeled fellowship called The River, gave us this three-part method for dream interpretation which opens the way to understanding what your sub (supra) conscious is trying to tell you. The River used a trinity of the Three Worlds of our earth as a basis for interpretation:

Mineral or inanimate world represented by the environment

Plant and animal world represented by non-human beings that appear

Human world is represented by people and interactions with the people.

Then putting those three together reflect on a meaningful message.

Here is the transcript from that session.

 

 

Julia: Can I ask you a question about a dream I had.

River: Yes.

Julia: I had a dream where there were animals scratching at my breasts. Was this an indication of health problems?

River: Animals? As in real animals that are living?

Julia: I think it was a puppy and a kitten

River: Certainly, this is not about health problems. There are myriad helpers that are approaching you at this time.  Your heart is widening as your view of yourself in the world widens.

 As your spirituality awakens and widens so your unconscious attaches to animals and draws them in as teachers.

They are also energy raisers and playmates, any kind of action in a dream stage within the chest area with the animal world is a good sign. The animal world entering your physical body is a good sign. It is not an invasion of course, but an indication of your willingness to allow other forms of knowing the self and knowing your position in the world. Animals within the chest area, either good or bad experiences i.e. terror, fear, pain, in any form can be viewed in a positive way. The veils between the conscious and unconscious, the veils between knowing within and without are being combined.

Any dreamlike state altered state is your connection with your inner self and is accessing knowledge within. Do not be afraid of experiences of this kind, they are a powerful sign, a sign of growing strength, and a sign of the ability to express the self on many levels. Are there any further questions?

River: We would suggest that during this time allowing your dreams to be as open as possible. Saying to yourself before sleep, I am open and receptive. It is at this time that you will experience the River, and the entities within the River, understanding them and just enjoying them.

Julia: We talked a few months ago about dreams and you said then you would talk more about dream work.

River: Yes, this is an area when we spoke of symbols and the adventures of each individual Ways. Dreams are on two levels, they are the dreamer’s symbols and they're also the dreamer’s connection with the great oversoul of humanity. For each individual depending on their path, and past lives, have the lives and symbols of their own journey throughout time which may appear in their dreams.

Animals, plants and humanity and of course the mineral world are all represented in dreams. Each thing within the dream speaks to this life as lessons. Therefore, within a dream, each thing must be dealt with as the mirror. Dream work is that- dream work, and while it is not necessary to dissect in detail to understand the messages at a very gut level of knowingness, certainly it is wise, when the dream becomes a demand, to sit down with the dream and work it through. These dreams will make themselves known by waking up in the night, with a complete memory or through technicolor or through repetition until finally the individual is forced to deal with it

Therefore, a dream demands attention. It is part of the self that is saying: “This part needs attention. This is an area of neglect that now needs attention.” Perhaps it is a stuck place within the individual and needs to be worked through for further growth. It can be equally a stuck place for humanity.

For example, anger outward towards the environment can become a stuck place for the individual, of course, it can also become the stuck place for humanity. Keeping the individual locked into this and influencing the oversoul with repetitive worrying, does not do any good for the individual or the oversoul. Therefore, all around the world in all humanity, similar dreams will be repeated as a way of healing the over self.

An individual working out for themselves this part of the deep unconscious does much healing for the larger group dream. Also, dreams can be dreamed for other individuals or for other oversouls. For example, the mineral world needs to be dreamed of by humanity to make itself more real. The animal world may in fact dream our dreams, from our humanity dream world. The interconnections are multifaceted as you can tell.

However, to fully understand a dream, in quietness, sit down with the dream in the morning and go through it step by step. Visualise the dream and go through it in your mind. When it has been gone over once, go back to the beginning and take the environment first. What was the physical environment? This is your connection with the inanimate world within and without. For example, in a dream of a house, you notice the floor. Go over the particulars of the dream and sense the floor. What is the floor representing to you? What do the windows represent to you? Ask the windows about their symbolism.

Find out what the symbols mean to you. The environment then is symbolic of your journey. Go through the dream and each part of the environment, find a meaningful symbol. Do not be too conscientious about it! Trust your intuition and the first answer that comes to mind. When you understand the symbol, note it and let it go.

Next in the dream, reflect on all living beings that are not human. This may be plant or animal. Repeat the process.

Finally, find what other humans are in the dream. What are they symbolizing? For example, there if there is a woman wearing up red dress. What does that symbolize? What were the feelings in that part of the dream? When the woman in the red dress went by, what did you feel? When you raced down the hallway after her, what was your feeling then?

And finally, after addressing the symbols of humanity, look at the dream as a whole and ask the dream, almost as asking a person in front of you, “Speak - what are you telling me at this time? I need to know about myself and how I am affecting the outside world. For where in the outside world is there in this dream?” Consider first your personal meaning in the dream, then reflect on its meaning in the outside world.

At this point it is wise to ask yourself, is this my dream? Is this my dress? My dream of what could be now? Or is this my dream from my past life? If the spontaneous answer is, “This is a dream from a past life”, then reflect on what is holding the dream into you now? What within the dream is still within your body's cells memory? It may be as simple as an unfortunate death with memories still locked within you of the agony of dying. It may be unresolved commitments or anger in motion or just the fact that it has not been felt finalized in some way that needs to be paid attention to and released.

If the symbol is from a past life, and experience, at this time it is locked within your body in some place and requires healing. Quickly find where in the body this dream is centred by running your hand over the body and finding, “Ah that is where the dream is centred.” It may be in a chakra area or it may be in some outer extremity from which the physical sensation is felt. Then take that dream out from that area, because that is where the dream is. Then hold it in the hands and release it. You have then accomplished that lifetime’s finalization. If you do this properly it will not come back again.

The final thing to do with the dream is to see it complete, to take one core sentence from it in a positive note. Repeat it to yourself and then let it go. In this way you have accomplished the dream work.

Say for example, a dream of a flute, in a room by itself. It may represent the music of the inner soul, “I must see myself more. I give myself a voice more.” How positive that is! “I am music and it is beautiful.”

Do not scold yourself within these sentences but turn them into a positive statement of being. “I am... something.” That is the finalization of dreamwork, a statement of being. A recalling, of working through and finally a statement. In this process you will transform it in a very the deep parts of yourself. Is this process clear?

Julia: That's clear. I have a question about the environment of dreams, some dreams just don't seem to have environments.

River: Environment can be as simple as the clothing that you wear. What are the people wearing? Environment isn't just the walls and windows, ground and sky, although it certainly can be. It can be the clothes, it can be sound, it can be whatever is around, figures. If it's a dream solely of feelings, then that two can be worked with by imagining an environment on feelings and being open to that will be a true experience of the environment. For in the dream work you are expressing a very deep part of the self which speaks in symbols, but if you pay attention, it is telling a truth. It is very difficult to tell a story which is not a major component of truth.

In the dreaming of others’ dreams, and this does happen on some occasions, it is felt as being an uneasy, puzzling dream that does not feel familiar in any way. Place this dream in the chest area and mentally imagine where it is attached outward into the environment. Follow it along until it is attached to a person. That is where the dream originates. When you know who the owner of the dream is, gently detach it from this chest area. Return it with love and compassion. This allows that individual to work on their own dream and you are not doing it for them.

Dream work is important on many levels. It is a way of identifying strengths, for what is happening in the dream is strengths. It is also a way of identifying where the individual is blocking herself. Within the dream the strong emotions, the negative emotions, are strengths and possibilities that are held in bond. Therefore, they are great signals of the individual’s and humanity’s journey

 

To summarize this method of interpretation-using a three-part technique:

Notice first the environment.

Then the other beings in the dream-animals, plants. Then notice the other people in the dream. Reflect on their meaning.

Next ask yourself for the overall message of the dream.

Notice if the dream is yours or are you dreaming it for someone else? Return the message of the dream to its creator with love and compassion. Notice if this dream is about past events that you are still holding in your body-this includes past lives or ancestral traumas.

Clear any negative or difficult part of the dream by recognizing the strength it is attempting to highlight.

Make a clear statement from these reflections in a positive way, such a statement that begins with “I am…”

Let me know in the comments if you have used this technique and how it went for you. I would love to know your thoughts.