A Beginners Guide To Dreams

A Beginners Guide to Dreams

There are many lines of thought as to what 'dreams' are.

Dreams can be a replay of our daily activities, playing out a solution to our problems or can provide a future event that is going to occur in our lives. Dreams really can be of any nature and are individual to ourselves providing either no meaning at all or a different meaning only we would know.

The most marvellous kind of dreams are 'lucid' dreams. A lucid dream occurs when you know that your asleep and dreaming but you feel part of the dream and can move around in the dream controlling what direction it takes.

When we are awake we really have a lot to consider and our brain is racing to interpret all the data it is receiving. However while we are dreaming our dreams are presenting to us the basic truth of a moment without any distractions. Our dreams are helping our conscious mind by playing out one moment for the conscious part of our brain to decipher the data it had received.

It is therefore understandable to acknowledge that our dreams are providing to us a meaning. Exactly what that meaning is leads us to dream analysis and interpretation. The trouble with most dreams is that you soon forget them when you wake up and start your day.

To help analyse and interpret a dream it is important that as soon as you awake that you record in writing what you then remember of the dream. Getting up during the night for some reason is the best opportunity for you to record what you have been dreaming about, while you are still sleepy, and the dream is vivid in your mind.

By referring to your notes later during the day you might be able to get a better understanding of what your dream may have meant. Strangely enough, some practitioners of this method have reported they actually lived out during the day part of their dream the night before.

When we dream it is generally in a scenario, life like perhaps in the lucid dream, and therefore it is mostly what we see and not what we say or hear. We do not normally recall exactly every word that was spoken as the dream scenario is all about the visual. Try to remember what the visual was in your dream and record this as soon as possible as dreams are very quickly forgotten.

Interpreting or analysing a dream is very individual. It really cannot be interpreted by someone else as only you know what is occurring in your life. You might see similarities with events in a dream that has or is occurring in your life that no one else would know.

Symbols in dreams are said to represent something in common across all dreams. Dream dictionary's have been compiled to give indications as to what a symbol might mean. remember just a symbol not an absolute reason. By using a dream dictionary and analysing your own dreams you can then narrow down what the dream meant or is trying to tell you.

Recurring dreams generally present themselves during a time in your life where you are troubled or facing some issue. The recurring dream is trying to work out a solution or guide to the problem that has been presented to you.  Perhaps the recurring dream has provided a solution but you are not following that solution! The dream will continue to occur until you reach the stage where you recognise the solution to your issue and act upon it.

Have you ever had a dream where you have either woken suddenly in a state of panic, crying or in a state of happiness? Such as dreaming about a pet that passed on many years ago and you awoke feeling both happy that you got to see your pet again and also sad that the pet has passed.

This present additional information to you when interpreting your dreams. As well as recording the images in your dreams and the events that occurred, also write down your feelings, how you felt and what emotions did you feel.

Now that you have all this information to hand you can then consider and formulate several possibilities that your dream is trying to tell you or better still trying to reassure you.

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