What Does a Rainbow in a Dream Mean?

Video Transcript

"Hello. My name is Dr. Robert Hernandez. I'm a psychologist in Miami, Florida, and I'm president and owner of Lafafala Retreat House. Dream interpretation is not so much tied to, for example, a dictionary or a book of symbols and find out what that means. You need to really know what the person interpretates the different symbols to them personally, and then amplify on that. For example, a rainbow. In many cultures, a rainbow means a connection of two different worlds; a connection of the earthly with the heavenly. So one of the things I review with my patients that have dreams about rainbows: What parts of themselves do they see as divided? A part that is more earthy in nature, more related to things that they're doing, and a part that's more spiritual. How can they unite that? The rainbow also gives us a sense of hope and new beginning, so I would ask my patients to dwell on that, and what types of hopes and dreams are they aspiring to with this unification or marrying of these two types of themselves? So, with any dream, the unconscious is bringing up symbols to bring it about to light cautiously. Very important."