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Step 1
Write down your experience of the dream before you interpret it. Describe every detail and event as clearly as you can. Note anything that popped out to your attention, and, most important, make notes about how you felt about everything you saw, felt, and experienced. In fact, keep a dream diary in general. Sometimes the frequent occurrence of certain people or events can be important.
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Step 2
What matters most in the dream is likely what you remember the most vividly or feel the most drawn to. Think of the elements that caused you to remember your dream in the first place. Sometimes, when describing our dreams, we remember more as we talk. Start from the point you remember, even if it was somewhere in the middle. Rate your symbols by importance.
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Step 3
Note the symbols, colors, and people. Dream dictionaries can tell us what certain symbols mean because of society's influence, but what you need to know is what they mean to YOU. Write down YOUR personal meanings and feelings about that which appeared in your dream, even if it contracts how you personally felt about them within the dream.
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Step 4
Looking at the relationship between elements will give you a basic idea of what your dream may be trying to tell you. Make a chart of connecting ideas.
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Step 5
After you have done this, decide on a basic theme for the dream. Sum up how you felt in one sentence. X happened, which caused Y. X is how you felt. Y is also how you felt. Stick to feelings and emotion, not specific, tangible events. Feelings.
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Step 6
Apply the theme you have chosen to your real life. In what situation do those feelings relate to how you've felt in real life? What other elements of the dream, then, connect to this real life situation as well?
