Things You'll Need:
- A journal
- A pen (with a light would be fantastic!)
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Step 1
To interpret your dreams, you have to remember them: before going to bed at night, set your intention. Say it out loud, “I will remember my dreams.”
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Step 2
Keep a journal and pen nearby (with a light on it is even better).
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Step 3
Write down the dream the moment you wake up—they evaporate like steam if you don’t.
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Step 4
How you tell the story in your journal will provide major keys to unlocking it, so let the words flow on the page.
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Step 5
Figure out what type of dream message it is—physical, mental, spiritual. Physical dreams are responses to an external stimuli. You dream of a snowstorm and wake up to find the bed covers are on the ground and you’re cold. Mental dreams take you into many areas—anxiety issues, wish fulfillment, hashing out what just happened the day before. Spiritual ones have larger, overall messages regarding your path in life. And there is overlap—dreams operate on several levels at once. You could be cold in that snowstorm—but on a deeper level, your emotions have frozen, too.
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Step 6
What’s the dream about? What current problems and interests could it be reflecting?
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Step 7
What emotions did you feel in the dream? How do they relate to your current situation?
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Step 8
What is the setting? A familiar place (there’s no place like home)? A strange place (venturing into new areas of your life)? A scary place (afraid of a new job)? Springtime (a time of renewal)?
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Step 9
What’s the basic theme? Try and say it in one sentence.
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Step 10
Dreams operate on a symbolic level so analyze the symbols. Symbols can be conventional (flags), universal (the circle) or personal. Look at each object and person in the dream and ask yourself, what does this represent to me? We use verbal language in the conscious, reasoning mind and then manipulate (and deceive) to our own benefit. The dream source is honest, though. The symbolic and seemingly obscure language of dreams helps prevent deceit between the conscious and subconscious mind.
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Step 11
Ask what part of you each person in the dream represents.
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Step 12
Apply what you’ve learned from your dream—what have you realized about yourself?










Comments
Lakota99 said
on 1/17/2009 Cool!
chrisanddaya said
on 1/6/2009 My husband and I have written a book on how to interpret your dreams, first printed in 1983 and reprinted 2005. Your explanations are nearly word for word in our book. I found it quite amusing to say the least. When you know what you know, you know you know.
chrisanddaya
LonnaLight said
on 5/6/2008 This is a very interesting article. Will have to give it a try some time.
Leg0nd said
on 2/28/2007 great stuff, i didn't realize that doing something like this could help you in the real world. Tonight i shall give it a shot!
JoeyC said
on 1/26/2007 The other night I had a dream that I was playing with two babies. One of them was cute, but blue. The other was orange, and much bigger than the blue one. They were crawling around the lawn. One disturbed a bees nest, and bees went everywhere. The babies fled from me in the chaos of the swarm. They dug themselves underneath the grass to hide from the maelstrom of insects. When the bees cleared, the parents of the babies came running up to find them, but dug them up to find out they had died. I cried my eyes out and woke up. Also, the blue baby looked like ET, huge eyes.