Meaning of Your Dreams

What are your dreams telling you?

 How can you understand their meaning?

Remember that dreams are drafted in symbols.

To understand dreams, you must understand symbols. For example, when you dream of your mother, father, spouse, or best friend, they shouldn't be confused with the actual people themselves.

Even if you dream of Krishna , Buddha, or your spiritual teacher, don’t just think of them literally. Instead, think of them as qualities or ways of being that are aspects of you—aspects that you are unconscious of. 

Let’s say you dream that your partner is being unfaithful. This may indicate that part of you is not interested in your normal way of living, interacting, or valuing things. Some part of you wants to leave “you” (the normal, or habitual you) and explore another way.

Or, let’s say you dream of a monster chasing you. This could mean that you are scared of some part of yourself and are trying to get away from it. For example, some people fear their own vulnerability because they have been hurt in the past.

These people might dream of their vulnerability as something scary (a monster) that they are trying to escape.

Along the same lines, imagine that you dream of a person who is sick and throwing up. That doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone is literally sick. However, it might mean that you need to “throw up” by ceasing to hold things in that you don't want to internalize, or speaking unpleasant truths.

Caveat: This does not mean that some dreams are not psychic or prophetic.

Certain dreams do tell you that a friend is literally sick, or that you need to be careful. However, I am highlighting the symbolic quality of dreams because our tendency make dream symbols literal can often cut us off from the psychological wisdom they can offer.

Remember that dreams resolve problems in unusual ways.

Do dreams help us to fix problems in our lives?

The short answer is yes, but they don’t always resolve them in a linear manner.

For example, let’s say you have a relationship problem that you decide to address by trying to listen better. Your dreams may suggest that you stop listening and instead start talking, asserting, or even shouting.

Or, you may find yourself struggling with fatigue, so you try to eat differently, exercise more, or change your sleeping habits to increase your energy level during the day.

However, your dreams may suggest that you let go, drop down, and stop trying so hard to accomplish something that is not deeply important to you.

Another scenario could be that you have low self esteem and have been told to affirm yourself as you are. Meanwhile, your dreams tell you to begin playing a musical instrument, complete a degree, or spend more time in nature.

Occasionally, our dreams do have linear or direct answers to our struggles, but more often, they offer a new perspective on our problems—a perspective that opens the door to answers you may never have considered.

Einstein once said that we can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Dreams follow this wisdom by not only commenting on our problems, but on the way we look at our problems. Furthermore, they shift our point of view to the mythical and symbolic realms, which broaden the context in which we evaluate our problems and seek to solve them.

This is particularly useful for issues that stubbornly resist our best intentions and efforts to change them.

Our problems are often a manifestation of who we are—therefore it is not the problem that needs to change, but rather ourselves. 

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Thank you … What do your dreams mean?

 It is thought that by reading and interpreting your dreams you can discover things about yourself, such as what your brain is trying to tell you, or what you really want in life.

The dreams explained in this post are going to cover MOST of the people reading this.

It can also be used to tell you what you’re afraid of and what you truly desire. The meaning of your dreams is really what you interpret it to be.

Can YOU remember all your dreams?

Many of us spend a long time learning how to dream.

That’s great, as dreaming is incredible but what good is it if you just forget it all?

Surely that’s a waste of time?

You’re probably aware that while you’re IN a dream there’s just SO MUCH incredible detail all around you, and you feel so excited about it while you’re in the dream, but when you wake up, what happens?

Does this sound familiar:

You REALLY want to remember your dreams more but you often wake up with a foggy memory of maybe one or two scenes and not much more, even though you try REALLY hard to remember what happened

You wake up during the night and remember your dream in VIVID detail but then you go back to sleep and forget everything, no matter HOW hard you try to recall it

You wake up with your eyes closed, and you can remember your dream ‘sort of’ but then you fall back asleep and forget it all

You can’t REGULARLY remember dreams in vivid detail

You WANT to be able to recall dreams from years ago in VIVID crisp detail, but you don’t know

Everyone dreams. Whether they're remembered or not, dreams occur when the brain enters a state of rapid eye movement (R.E.M., like the band) sleep.

The occurrence is natural, subconscious, and, if you take it, it happens up to six times per night to fully-grown adults. And yet, despite the ubiquity of dreams, few people know what they actually mean.

Enter dream interpretation, an ancient art and—recently, thanks to a parade of well-degreed researchers entering the field—actual science that aims to create a collective understanding of what we're all seeing on a nightly basis.

But what are your dreams telling you?

What does it mean when you dream about someone specific?

From endless falling to alien abductions to that naked-in-a-crowd nightmare, some of the more common dreams out there mean things.

And no, it's not always crystal clear, at first, what they're trying to say. But if you know how to analyze them, you'll discover some fascinating insights into yourself—and the world around you.

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But what are your dreams telling you?

What does it mean when you dream about someone specific?

From endless falling to alien abductions to that naked-in-a-crowd nightmare, some of the more common dreams out there mean things.

 And no, it's not always crystal clear, at first, what they're trying to say. But if you know how to analyze them, you'll discover some fascinating insights into yourself—and the world around you.

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What does it mean when you dream you're in bed with a coworker?

If you are being intimate with a coworker in your dream, it does not necessarily mean you have a crush on them. , it may say more about them having "positive qualities you admire" that you "welcome in your own life." That's right: your dirty dream could be about admiration—not lust!

What does it mean when you dream there are animals nearby?

Animals can often appear in your dream and can vary in their significance or what they make you feel—a fierce bear is going to indicate something distinct from a high-flying hawk.

 Any time an animal appears it may be an indication that your dream is "asking you to stop trying to think your way through a situation and turn instead toward your instinctive nature for an answer."

What does it mean when you dream you lost something valuable—and can't find it?

If we've misplaced something of value in our dream or spend the dream trying to find something and fail to do it, it may be that we feel a sense of lower value in our life. "If we are looking for our purse or wallet, then we are reflecting on our value to others as we may feel that we have lost some self –esteem in waking life."

What does it mean when you dream you're searching for someone?

If you dream you're searching for someone, it doesn't always have to do with that person, specifically. "When we search for other people in our dreams, we are trying to reconnect with aspects of our own identities that we have lost touch with."

Dreams are the wishes of our subconscious. As we age, we tend to focus on what we should be doing rather than what we want to be doing.