Dec

Analyse and understanding the meaning of your dreams in 9 steps

Nowadays, I understand the meaning of my dreams either directly or with some delay, but I remember when it was not easy to understand my dream and that time I found a very useful method from Robert Moss author of Conscious Dreaming.

At first, it may be intimidating the method has 9 steps and you have to write your dreams then go through some of the steps but you start it become quicly fun, at least it did to me. So let review these steps.

1 – Trust your feelings

Always pay attention to how you feel when you wake from a dream. Your feelings and bodily sensations may be your best guide to the relative urgency and importance of a dream, and its positive or negative implications.

This one has proven to be accurate to me and useful, my feelings after or during a dream gave me so much information.

2 – First Associations

In keeping a dream journal, you will want to get into the habit of jotting down your first associations with the dreams you record. What floats to the surface of your consciousness in the first minutes after waking may come from layers of the dream that have eluded, or from deeper levels of dreaming.

This step is rather easy if you aren’t too analytical the associations will come by themselves on their own pretty naturally.

3 – reality check

Though dreams are inner experiences, they often contain accurate information about external reality. In both subtle and unsubtle ways, dreams incorporate signals from the outside environments.

To me the reality check may come after days or even weeks. That why it should be interesting to revisit dreams from your journal after a month or a year.

5 – Dialogue with Dream Characters

One of the best ways to work out what your dream characters are telling you is to ask them.

This one is great now if you do it, you might have at some point difficulty to accept what a particular dream character tell you, I simply suggest to write things down even if you don’t understand or fully accept what the dream character try to communicate to you, eventually, it will make sense to you at a later time.

6. Tracking Your Dream Self

Who are you in your dreams? Are you the protagonist or simply an observer? Are you younger or older? Male or female? The character who appears in all of your dreams, even if only as a witness is you.

I like this one because it always give me clues on personal issues to work out or point at untapped potentials or skills I might have.

7. Symbol Exploration

Although the dream source tries to communicate with us as clearly as possible, it must often speak in symbols in order to carry us beyond the limitations of the everyday mind.

Robert Moss recommend to build your own catalogue of symbols based on your dreams, dream symbols are different for all of us, like Robert Moss I don’t buy into shared universal symbols, for one person a king might symbolize wealth for another it might symbolize dictatorship or dumbness, study the symbol in your dreams and create your own personal dictionary.

8. “What Part of Me?”

Dreams make us whole. They show us the many aspects of ourselves and help us to bring them under one rood. This is why it is often useful to ask “what part of me” different characters and elements in a dream might represent.
I never really used this step much , step 9 however is great for me.

9. Dream Enactment

Write a dream motto: See if you can come up with a one-line statement that summarizes what the dream is telling you.
Confirm your dream messages: Especially if you dream seems to contain a warning about a situation looming up in external reality, you may want to take steps to check the information.
Dream fulfillment or avoidance: If your dream seems to promise good things, you will want to figure out practical ways you can help to bring them to pass. If your don’t like a future event you have glimpsed in a dream, you will want to consider how to get off the path that is leading you toward it.
Personal Rituals: Making a poem out of a dream report, drawing or painting the images you have seen, or constructing a personal shield or dream talisman are all excellent ways to honor the powers that speak to you through dreams.

While I don’t do personal rituals I like to write a dream motto and find the message in my dreams, there is always something for me in them.
Have fun with these steps – they are useful.

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