The expression: “the morning is wiser than the evening” came into our lives for a reason; all the ancient sages knew that it was through sleep that a person receives help from the Higher Powers or a hint from the Guardian Angel.
That is why, if you clearly decipher the dream and what you dreamed at night, at the dawn of a new day you will make a completely different decision than you would have made last evening.
Some people claim that they do not dream at all or immediately forget them after waking up. Science has proven that every night a person sees at least five dreams. Their importance for life is enormous, so an unprocessed dream can cause mental illness or remain in your soul in a distorted form until you learn to understand what happens during the soul’s journey through the labyrinths of sleep.
Help me solve the dream
It would be wrong to consider sleep solely as a rest phase; modern experiments have proven that during sleep the human brain does a huge amount of “work.” The greatest load falls on the right hemisphere, which is responsible for intuition, emotions, and processing of non-verbal information.
Therefore, it is not surprising that a sleeping person can “remember” his past lives and incarnations, and master a certain spiritual experience that is inaccessible to understanding in reality.
Although some dreams seem incoherent and inexplicable to us (after all, the mind is turned off, which means the subconscious and comprehensive knowledge are turned on), it is not difficult to trace their logic if you master the technique of dream interpretation.
Why does the human body need sleep?
Scientists have noticed that sleep allows the body to recover on a physical level, strengthens the nervous system, and improves memory. In addition, immunity increases due to the activation of T-lymphocytes, which help fight colds, viral, and bacterial diseases.
Therefore, during periods of illness, proper rest is useful, as well as for prevention, and preparation for exams should include sleep to improve memorization of the material.
Babies dream more; this period accounts for 50% to 70% of premature babies' sleep.
It is assumed that such dynamics are associated with the special impact of sleep on the development of the child’s brain and improves the memorization of information. With age, the percentage of dreams is 20%, but is present throughout life, since this phase is necessary for the body to restore mental balance, according to sleep psychology.
Studies have shown that in a state of sleep deprivation, a person can remain active for a long time if he has the opportunity to periodically rest. Complete sleep deprivation has extremely negative consequences - after 3 days, memory loss, hallucinations, loss of reality are observed, the person seems to lose his mind, coordination and vision are impaired. All this testifies to the enormous importance of sleep for human recovery - physical and mental. It’s interesting that dreams can even literally help solve life’s issues and make discoveries. How is this possible?
How to correctly decipher a dream
Exclusively the right hemisphere of the brain, responsible for the intuitive perception of life, produces sleep. This explains the fact that answers to questions that concern us in reality come in a dream in the form of a set of symbols, signs, and repeating information.
You can train yourself in such a way that a dream will become a revelation for you, helping you get answers to questions, a hint on how to act correctly in a given everyday situation.
As soon as a person wakes up, the left hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for logic and rational thinking, comes into operation, so a night’s sleep with its symbols seems like something weightless and insignificant, but this is not so. The language of dreams is indeed symbolic, but it is not meaningless, you just need to learn how to interpret it correctly.
Dream Interpretation: why a woman or man dreams
As we have already said, the unconscious was known even before Freud. But the importance that Freud attributed to the unconscious was truly revolutionary. The power of the unconscious was revealed to Freud when he worked with hysterical patients. He saw that their hysteria was a consequence of emotional trauma, which the patients themselves no longer remembered. Their painful memories and unacceptable desires were repressed and held deep in the unconscious. The defensive repression of forbidden desires was the reason that his patients saw reality as distorted. The mind rebelled against its own desires in order to avoid confrontation with the ruthless outside world. Freud not only considered his patients' hysteria an illusion, but also used their passionate outpourings to probe their unconscious and discover underlying repressed desires. Such a discovery invariably led to a cure.
What is the unconscious according to Freud?
Freud later argued that the unconscious does not only invade the conscious life of neurotic patients. The unconscious also manifests itself in the lives of normal people. Material that has been repressed into the unconscious breaks through to the surface as a phenomenon that we encounter daily and hourly. We all make minor but annoying mistakes - we forget names, we get confused, we read words incorrectly, we hear something that was not said, sometimes our tongue makes mistakes, and sometimes our pen. The basis of such errors is fear, memory or desire that has been repressed from the area of conscious thinking, which most often does not disappear, but seeks a way to return to consciousness. The "random error" will most likely end up being supplanted by the material.
In everyday life we encounter manifestations of the unconscious everywhere. Errors have nothing to do with illness and are observed even in very healthy people. Freud called them slips of the tongue. Jokes and anecdotes are a consequence of the work of such unconscious mechanisms. Our dreams are another playground where the unconscious can express itself. Moreover, for Freud, dreams became a direct path to the unconscious of any person, a way to discern his unconscious thoughts and memories. Freud was sure that every dream is a desire seeking to be realized.
How to interpret children's dreams according to Freud?
Simple and clear children's dreams become more and more complex as the child grows and learns to hide his desires and impulses. The need to be secretive comes with potty training. They quickly realize that admiring their excrement is not good. On the contrary, it is considered “dirty.” This equally applies to genital attraction, which should also be restrained.
As the child grows, parental control increases. Parents offer their love to the child and threaten him with punishment. Gradually the child learns this external restraint. Parental authority is replaced by self-censorship—consciousness. The child does not have the desire to take certain actions if he realizes that they will cause disapproval. If the child nevertheless violates the prohibition, this forces him to pretend, and then his consciousness punishes him with a feeling of remorse or guilt. Although the child himself does not understand this, the mechanism that was instilled in him is not only evaluative. It helps the censor to prevent unacceptable desires.
Little by little, the child understands which desires cannot be fulfilled under any circumstances, and therefore cannot even be formulated, and which desires should be expressed secretly. This is how, gradually, a conflict arises between desire and guilt, which will last a lifetime. It is possible that a similar mechanism works in sleep, where children learn to create a similar camouflage. At least when they become adults, their dreams no longer express an immediate desire, but, as with the symptoms of hysteria, the unfulfilled desire appears in a distorted form in the dream.
Hidden substitution occurs unconsciously in a dream, and it seems that the dream has nothing to do with a desire that requires embodiment. Distortion is the work of the same protective forces of resistance within a person, which in ordinary life help to hide internal impulses, and sometimes even prevent their manifestation. So “a sleeper can no more understand the meaning of his dreams than a hysteric can understand the relationship and meaning of his symptoms.”
Freudian division of dreams into levels
The way Freud divided the dream into two different levels was fundamentally different from all previous attempts to decipher the dream. All analysts since antiquity have considered only the manifest imagery of dreams. They believed that this was quite enough to explain the meaning of the dream. All interpretations were based on transformations of explicit content. Freud drew attention to a completely new material lying between dream images and their interpretation - latent content or dream thoughts. “It is from the dream thoughts, and not from the manifest content of the dream, that we derive its meaning.” Once we know the latent content, the dream immediately becomes understandable. A person usually tries to understand a dream based only on its manifest content and comes to an erroneous conclusion about its meaning.
Freud compared the content of a dream to a rebus, a mosaic. One can consider scattered images to be absurd, absurd and therefore meaningless pictures. But it is better to leave aside critical remarks about the imperfection of the dream composition and try to replace each of its elements with something else. When everything falls into place, the dream will no longer seem useless and will take on meaning.
Classification of dreams by groups
Dreams, according to Freud, can be divided into three broad groups depending on the degree of distortion of their latent content. “First of all, we can distinguish those dreams that make sense and at the same time are understandable.” Their meaning is easy to understand in the context of our daily lives. Usually such dreams are brief and do not contain anything unusual or strange. “The second group consists of dreams which, although coherent and clearly meaningful, still confuse us because we cannot understand how to relate their meaning to our mental life... Finally, the third group consists of dreams which are devoid of any meaning and completely incomprehensible, which seem incoherent, confused and meaningless.”
Freud's classification is close to the one we proposed earlier. The first group includes literal dreams from our classification, and the second and third groups correspond to the categories of symbolic and insignificant dreams. In ancient times, the interpreter had to first make sure that the dream could be interpreted. If the meaning was completely absent, then such a dream was considered an epitome. Freud changed priorities and focused on the search for meaning in the “incoherent” and “confused” world.
Obviously, only in the second and third groups designated by Freud will we be able to establish the difference between the latent and manifest content of dreams. Dreams belonging to the first category are quite understandable, since their manifest and latent contents coincide. Children's dreams, as we have already said, have this property to a greater extent, since they lack any disguise. Usually the third group causes the most confusion. In such dreams the disguise is so effective that the latent thoughts are completely hidden in the dream images.
Freud's method of masking dreams
Freud argued that there is a direct connection between the complex nature of sleep and the way in which its underlying latent content is understood. We have already seen how, with the help of internal censorship, sleep masks the unconscious desire so that it can bypass the censor. This trick is reminiscent of a children's game when children talk to each other in "bird" language so that adults do not understand what they are talking about. That is, children hide things that may cause our disapproval. The masking method is very simple - after each vowel in the word, a “pi” is inserted. Then the question of that frightened mother (What are you doing?) will sound something like this: “What are you depilating?” (The main syllable in each word becomes “pi”.)* A simple question has turned into an absurd set of sounds.
Can the strangeness of the dream be explained by the fact that it uses a fixed and systematic method of rearranging the dream thoughts, such as a "pi language" or programming code? The method of camouflage and dreams is not only complex and variable, but also affects vast areas. Absurd dreams, according to Freud, are the result of an extremely complex process. Internal censorship and secrecy of dream thoughts cannot be the only mechanism that distorts sleep. There must be something else, some factor that gives the dream a strange quality.
Freud called the process of transforming latent content into manifest content the work of the dream. Interpretation thus became the reverse process of correcting the distortions resulting from the work of the censor and the work of the dream. The dream work, which aims to mask unfulfilled unconscious desires, consists of four components. The first process is condensation, where the dream work combines several elements into one unconscious desire and represents it as a separate image.
Condensation and displacement of dreams
Condensation excludes some elements from the dream thoughts, or uses only a fragment of them, or combines two or more elements into one whole. Condensation also applies to place, objects and events. The less familiar a dream image seems, the stranger it is. In addition, each image can correspond to many dream thoughts. No mechanism makes sleep as strange and incomprehensible as a change in priorities - displacement. First of all, it is the displacement that distorts the main ideas and creates obvious dream images. The operation of this mechanism gives rise to many jokes.
There remain two processes, says Freud, which work to distort the dream thoughts before they are perceived by the dreamer. Their work will become clearer if we continue to consider our example, which is already distorted by two processes - condensation and displacement. Dreams don't speak, they show. To do this, the dream work uses another mechanism at its disposal, the visual representation, which transforms the text of the dream thoughts into images, and thus the dream undergoes further changes.
Have you noticed how different a book is from a film script, even if it is a successful script? A visual representation can change our example by depicting Dad putting on his hat. The team becomes part of a sacred ceremony. Finally, the mechanism of secondary change puts the finishing touches, and the content of the dream becomes a coherent narrative.
Freud's mechanism for working with dreams
Perhaps it would be appropriate to take a short pause here and consider from a broader perspective the mechanism developed by Freud for working with dreams. We all know that there is something strange in the language of dreams. Dreams contain bizarre elements that have captured the imagination of saints, soothsayers and scientists alike. The way they interpreted dreams led to a huge number of theories. However, they all attributed the origin of dreams to a source alien to our waking consciousness.
Freud agreed that dreams do not originate in the mind. They come from the unconscious, and the disparate dream images indicate the underlying subtext, the latent dream thoughts - a mixture of instinctive impulses and forbidden desires. They must be disguised to bypass the censor. The dream work is the mechanism that creates camouflage. The subsequent distortion is perceived in a dream as an absurd element, which is why we often talk about the mysterious world of dreams. For Freud, the imagery inherent in dreams is not just a special language, but the result of a deliberate distortion of the meaning of basic desires. Dreaming thus becomes a type of pathological mental activity, analogous to the formation of neurotic symptoms.
The practical part of working with dreams
The significance of these theoretical principles will become obvious if we turn to the practical part of dream interpretation. Since dreams hide the true motives of the dreamer, Freud proposed the method of free association to arrive at the correct interpretation. No matter how tempting the apparent content of the dream may be, it should be completely put aside. In contrast, with free association, each dream fragment should be considered independently, as if it required a separate assessment. In this case, the person must leave critical comments and talk in detail and in order about all the associations that come to his mind in connection with each individual element of the dream. The chain of associations will form as if on its own, and each association will be connected with the previous one.
The person is asked to provide a chain of verbal associations associated with one of the elements of the dream. As soon as this train starts moving, it becomes obvious that the associations reproduce the dream work in reverse order. A complex image can be broken down into several separate memories, each with something common to everyone, so that the original image really seems condensed. Sometimes this process involves feelings that have a contrasting emotional coloring compared to the original image. Or associations can lead us to memories that are very far from the original picture, that is, a displacement occurs.
Disparate associations will naturally not be coherent. The chain of associations first of all destroys the results of the secondary change, which from several memories makes up a rich plot picture of the dream. Basically, in the visual picture of a dream there are no obvious connections with human life, but with free associations the images acquire verbal expression, which is usually concentrated around children's narcissistic complexes. This shows how the visual representation mechanism works in dreams. Freud suggested that free association could reveal in reverse order everything that happened during the formation of a dream, in which case it could be used as a valuable clue to the subconscious impulses that support the dream.
Free associations do not necessarily coincide with latent dream thoughts. It is simply a tool that helps discover information, transitions and connections in order to unravel a complex dream pattern. Soon the flow of associations ends abruptly, and this happens precisely at the point where the main idea of the dream is revealed. At this point the analyst intervenes, he penetrates the gap formed, makes an indisputable but not final conclusion and describes in detail what the associations told him. In a nutshell, free association reveals the process of dream work to reach latent content.
Symbols and associations in the Freudian theory of dream interpretation
Freud became convinced that some parts of a dream can be understood without associations. This stable relationship between the dream element and its meaning was described by Freud as “symbolic,” and the dream element as the “symbol” of the unconscious dream thought. A stable symbolic relationship does not replace the associative technique, but complements it. And in reality, symbols and associations became two links in one chain that connected the manifest dream with its main and only important latent content.
Freud believed that not every object is a symbol. Only certain elements of dream thoughts are symbolic. The list of such symbols is limited to the human body, parents, brothers and sisters, birth, death and nudity. A review of the psychoanalytic literature by Calvin Hall and his students to determine which objects were commonly symbolized found that of the 709 symbols, 102 symbols were used for the penis, 95 for the vagina, 55 for coitus, 25 for masturbation, 13 for the female breast, and 12 for castration.
What are symbols used for?
Symbols are used in dreams to manifest and resolve our sexual conflicts (wish fulfillment), to deprive them of their power through disguise and thus preserve the dream. Symbols become both the embodiment and cover of our sexual desire. Let's say you dream about a gun. According to Freud, it may be a symbol of the phallus. In his view, “all oblong objects such as canes, sticks and umbrellas... can represent the male organ - as can long, sharp weapons such as knives, daggers and pikes... Boxes, suitcases, cabinets, drawers and stoves represent the womb, as do hollow objects, boats and utensils of all kinds... Steps, ladders or gangways, or, in some cases, going up and down them, all represent the sexual act.”
The path leads from dreams to the unconscious, to instinctive life, and then to sexuality. This last step - the assertion that symbols are inherently sexual, and human sexual life begins not at puberty, with mental maturation, but much earlier, in childhood, and manifests itself in the child's relationship with the mother - perhaps caused the greatest resistance to Freud's ideas. He, however, insisted on his position and even provided experimental evidence.
The experiment was carried out on deeply hypnotized subjects who were told to dream about sexual themes. Their dreams contained the same symbols as in Freud's theory. In other experiments, patients told vulgar stories of a sexual nature and, when asked to repeat themselves, described the sexual organs using the same symbols mentioned by Freud. Interestingly, some patients imagined sexual intercourse as a ladder, which is difficult to explain by conscious euphemization alone. In the Punjabi wedding ritual in India, which is still performed today, the bride is adorned with a cloak (chunni). It is given by the groom after a special ceremony to consecrate the cloak.
Freud broke with tradition when he explained the unusual form of dreams not by the fact that they contain messages from the supernatural world, but by the work of protective forces. In interpretation, he was not interested in deciphering some message from an external source, but in recognizing internal impulses distorted by the censor. The dream, banished from the Christian world, became one of the rational tools of analysis and therapy.
What are Freudian dreams for?
The function of the dream, according to Freud, is to guard sleep. A dream must reliably protect the sleeper from two forces - external and internal. An external stimulus, such as the ringing of an alarm clock, can become part of the dream, say the distant ringing of a church bell, so that the dream continues. Defense against external stimuli is given a small role in Freudian theory compared to the more important defense against internal stimuli, somatic (blood pressure, headaches) and psychological (awakened memories). As already noted, Freud attached the greatest importance to protection from frightening internal impulses (memories) seeking to break out from the unconscious.
Freud's concept of dreams and psychology is known as psychoanalysis and differs from other psychological schools of personality development. Psychoanalysis is not only a theory of personality or consciousness, but also a method of therapy that aims to understand dreams by studying the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements. In the classical version, the methodology of psychoanalysis is based on the patient’s free associations. Thus, repressed desires that lie deep in the unconscious come to the surface, after which they can be interacted with.
Freudian psychoanalysis based on dreams
Psychoanalysis is an achievement of Western civilization, and its action is not limited to the professional field of study of mental health. It extends much further. Freud always tried to understand the connection between mind and body. He made us realize that every bodily condition affects the mind, and whatever happens in the mind affects the body. It was only after Freud that we began to think of bodily ailments as related to the mind.
The Freudian division of the mind into the conscious and unconscious influenced every aspect of life. Freud's terms, such as the subconscious, repressed drives, inhibition, fixation and identification, have passed into everyday speech. The content of many literary works is based on psychological revelations (in the artistic sense). Writers who are familiar with the process of sleep and the features of the unconscious exploit these ideas in their work. Artists also entered into an argument with psychoanalysts and began to freely express elements of the unconscious in their paintings and sculptures.
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams is now considered more than just a book about dreams. It outlines Freud's theory of the mind and shows its driving forces. Although Freud's ideas were initially resisted, his theories were so persuasive that they captured many areas of modern thought: gender studies, memory studies, literary criticism, personality, and so on. Psychoanalysis liberated people from the inhibitions imposed by traditional morality and led to changes in society and sexual liberation. He created a language in which the topic of sexuality will be discussed for many generations to come.
Who was Freud? Dream master, psychologist, medical practitioner, philosopher, social activist? One lesson he learned early in his life is that convention is funny. He asked about everything. Why do we dream? Why do people get sick and how to cure them? Why do wars happen? Why are some groups of people persecuted? He sought to understand and explain many mysteries of nature and society. Possessing rare visual acuity, he tirelessly searched for everything that could bring him closer to a solution. As W. H. Auden said about him, Freud “is no longer a man, but a public opinion.”
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How to interpret a dream
Among all the peoples of the world, the most significant messages of gods or beings from the Subtle World come to chosen people in dreams, and this is not an accident. After all, an open consciousness, like a sponge, absorbs prayers, messages, revelations. It is no secret that many scientists made their brilliant discoveries in their sleep, and writers, musicians or poets often say that during sleep they were able to experience the content of those works that they later put on paper or look into the future.
The famous politician Abraham Lincoln had a prophetic dream shortly before his death. The US President dreamed of a vigil at the coffin placed in the White House. He approached the mourning people and asked who had died. He was told that the deceased was the president. Just a couple of days after Lincoln told witnesses his dream, he was shot in the head at Ford's Theater.
This proves that through dreams the Higher Powers send us predictions, revelations, messages about the future, warn us or tell us what to do.
Drawing as an interpretation of the state of mind and health
You can use a similar technique for a general analysis of the energy state, mental and physical health of yourself and others. Basically, the technique is the same. You can create a special ceremony for her that you will use for yourself and others.
Parapsychology. Exercise 15
Create a ceremony that you apply while doing the drawings. Make one for yourself and one for other people. Describe it:
This time, make a drawing in the form of a mandala , a so-called symbolic, graphic pattern, a diagram of the Cosmos, the Earth or a person. A mandala most often has the shape of a circle or square. It is most famous in the cultures of India and Tibet. It can also be found in traditional Indian drawings.
In Indian and Tibetan cultures, a mandala is created from colored sand, and after finishing the work (sprinkling the mandala can even take several days), it is very quickly destroyed, which should symbolize the fragility of the material world and our lives, as well as the long changes and transformations taking place in it.
Parapsychology. Exercise 16
Make a mandala - a symbolic drawing of yourself, your health, emotions or energy state in the shape of a circle or square. Use any technique (images) using colors. Elements of the mandala, for example, color, carry information about your mood, as well as your state of health.
Parapsychology. Exercise 17
Check the symbolism of flowers that you have learned and discovered yourself based on previous lessons. Complete the following table:
Along with experience in this type of interpretation, you should regularly supplement the information in the table.
| Color | Lack of color | Excess color | Observed psychosomatic symptoms |
| Red | |||
| Orange | |||
| Yellow | |||
| Green, pink | |||
| Blue | |||
| Blue, dark blue | |||
| Purple, white |
Parapsychology. Exercise 18
Relax your body and mind. (…) Perform the ceremony you created. (...) Using your chosen image technique (pencil, pastel, watercolor, felt-tip pen, etc.) draw your mandala. Listen to your heart. Draw whatever comes to your mind, don’t think about the meaning. Don't overthink it. Let your hand choose the colors and paint on its own. (…) Rest for a minute. (...)
Parapsychology. Exercise 19
After some time, you can begin to analyze the mandala. (…) Consider it carefully. What are your first impressions?
What does the drawing tell you?
What do individual elements look like and what do they want to convey to you?
Write down all the elements of the picture and describe what they mean:
Write the entire interpretation in 3-5 sentences:
Parapsychology. Exercise 20
Perform a similar interpretation of the mandala for another person. Do it yourself or together with an interested person. Remember that only through constant practice will you achieve perfect results.
Dream Interpretation: how to correctly interpret dreams
Each person can learn not only to remember his dream, but also to realize what it means. Through dreams, you can better understand your true desires, materialize hidden fears and doubts, and understand your purpose in life. In a dream, a person sees himself without the mask that he is used to in real life; they reveal to us the true essence of ourselves.
During night sleep, the spiritual component of a person is organized, self-tuned, and harmonized. Scientists conducted an experiment and proved that repeatedly and forcibly interrupted sleep is fraught with mental illness.
To understand how to correctly interpret a dream, you must first learn to correctly remember night images and scenes. For this purpose, you can use a pen and notepad or a voice recorder. As soon as you wake up, quickly write down or speak your dream onto a recording device. Make a note like this every time you wake up. At first, you will need several days to remember in detail what you dreamed, composing a single dream from fragments.
But over time, you will learn to intuitively restore everything that you dreamed at night while awake. You will intuitively begin to feel what the Higher Power wants to tell you through a dream and gain the ability to understand your dreams.
How to understand the meaning of dreams from the point of view of psychology and esotericism
But, if we remember the history of mankind, the activities of dream interpreters have always been associated with divination, magic, spiritual and esoteric science. So, on this site I aim to fill this gap. Moreover, psychologists themselves admit that they do not fully understand all the processes occurring in the psyche, because psychology is a young science, which is no more than one century old, and humanity has been accumulating knowledge about the interpretation of dreams for thousands of years.
However, our respected modern psychology agrees that dreams are a direct link to our subconscious. A person can get a lot of help from a psychologist by talking about his dreams and working through the problems that arise in them. Therefore, I want to say right away that there is no need to be afraid of bad dreams, but on the contrary, you need to use them as valuable material for elaboration.
How to understand the meaning of dreams and visions. Practice
If you want to learn to understand the meaning of your dreams, then it would be good to start writing them down. You can even keep a special dream diary. So, after waking up, while the memory of them is fresh, write down at least a few main symbols of the dream, or better yet the entire dream. All its details carry their own meaning, even seemingly insignificant ones.
For example, the place where you were and the clothes you and those around you were wearing. Think about what all these symbols mean to you personally. You can use general dream books, for example, the interpretations that I give on this channel. But remember that only you yourself can fully interpret the meaning of dreams. And you may certainly have your own interpretations of the symbols.
For example, a magical crystal ball may have its own interpretation in general dream books, but if your mother hit you on the head with it as a child, then it is clear that you will have a deeply individual understanding of the meaning of this symbol.
Particular importance should be attached to emotions that arise in a dream, even very fleeting ones. They will help you fully understand it. Were they negative or positive? The meaning of the dream will be the same. For example, building a house in a dream means implementing a major project, creating a material basis for life. If in a dream you were happy about this, then in life you will be satisfied with what you did. But if you were upset and dissatisfied, then, alas, the colossal work done will only bring you disappointment.
First of all, you need to pay attention to recurring dreams and symbols. They mean that you are mentally and at other levels stuck in some kind of problem, no further development is happening.
How to understand whether a dream is prophetic or not
The second, more complex stage of solving dreams is a conspiracy to have a prophetic dream before going to bed. You can simply ask your inner Master to show the future in a dream, give a hint or answer to an exciting question. Clearly formulate the question and calmly fall asleep, knowing that the solution will come in a dream, and in the morning, be sure to remember what you saw. Intuition will tell you how to connect what you see with your problem and unravel the intricacies of dreamed symbols or plots.
Some people who have achieved a high level of dream understanding can not only have a prophetic dream, but also receive real insight during a night's rest. The solution can also appear as the final frame of a dream, and peace will overtake you, all doubts will disappear. You will gain exact knowledge of what needs to be done.
Where do you go when you sleep?
Let's start with the question: what is the astral plane? You've probably heard about astral travel. Do you think that you know nothing about this? You are wrong!
You are all familiar with this and go there all the time. Don't believe me? Each of you goes to bed in the evening and finds yourself in a dream world where everything happens differently. Where there are many different symbols and signs. Understanding the message of this world is not always easy or simple. Sound familiar? Yes, you are right, these are our dreams.
When we fall asleep, we find ourselves in the astral space and live our other life there. Every person lives in at least two worlds (physical and astral). In the astral plane, events occur ahead of time in the physical world. By unraveling the meaning of dreams, you can change the situation in the physical world.
That is why people who knew how to decipher dreams and give information about the future based on dreams have always been valued. Many books have been written about this, and now I want to help you learn how to work with your dreams on your own. It's not difficult at all if you know a few rules.
How to understand a dream in your hand
Do not rush to call what you dream at night absurd. Let's give an example: one man, leading a sedentary lifestyle, often had a dream in which he dreamed of beauties dancing to exotic music, an unusual holiday surrounded by people unfamiliar to him, speaking an incomprehensible language. In reality, he could not even imagine what this could mean, since he lived by the principle: “home-work-home.” He persistently continued to have the dream for several years, until one day his boss asked his subordinate if he wanted to work as a consultant on a project in India. The man happily accepted this offer and instantly realized that in a dream he had seen his intuitive desire to visit some exotic country, which materialized in reality in his life and allowed him to revive those pictures that had previously come only in dreams.
What are the benefits of dream interpretation?
What does dream analysis and deciphering give you:
- You develop intuition, learn to hear the signals of your own subconscious. This skill then finds practical application in real life.
- You can learn to predict the future. True, only a few can achieve this if they have innate abilities.
- You are no longer afraid of nightmares, because you understand: they are only a reflection of some negative emotions and aspects of your personality.
Have you tried to decipher the meaning of the pictures that appeared to you at night? And did the predictions of dream books come true? Share in the comments to the article.
How to learn to understand dreams
Be sure to keep a diary, write down every dream you have, connecting your dreams with what is happening in your waking life. Intuition will give a hint on how to understand dreams, visions and other messages through communication with the Subtle World.
Your attention will become more acute, there will be a need to analyze your dreams, compare them with what is happening in reality, ask for help from the Higher Powers and receive a revelation about what will happen to you in the future.
The deeper you delve into dreams, the better you will learn to understand them. In difficult situations, it is enough to pray for an answer to the question to be sent through a dream, and tune in to a positive solution to the situation. Intuition will help you pave the way to your true essence, learn to live in harmony between dreams and reality, receiving hints from the Universe in the form of symbols or prophetic predictions.
How to understand the meaning of dreams and visions from an esoteric point of view
Top 9 dreams about the state of your energy
Often dreams reflect the state of our bioenergy field, in what vibrations we are in general . Here I will highlight the following options.
- Black and white dreams. Fatigue and stress. There is only enough energy for the most mundane things.
- Dreams saturated with colors. The brighter the colors, the more work ability and energy you have.
- Nightmares. Serious problems with energy, its leaks, pollution of the aura. The more the worlds you are in resemble hell, horror films, the lower vibrations you are in.
- Pleasant dreams, full of joy and love. You are in high vibrations.
- Muddy water, mud - energetic mud.
- Dreams about falling, going down . Loss of energy.
- Dreams about flying and moving upward . Energy set. The higher you can fly, the better.
- Lucid dreams. Good level of energy, and also awareness. Most likely, this is not accidental, but you have been working on your energy body, or you have experience from past lives.
- Magical energies. Magicians also know dreams where they come into contact with the magical energies with which they are working at the moment. And here we smoothly move on to the fact that dreams can show magic in your life. Alas, often negative, so-called “black magic”, that is, damage and love spells.
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Falling in a dream could mean that in real life you have lost control over something. The surroundings in a dream can help determine what exactly the sign refers to.
If you have fallen completely and reached the bottom, it means that something in your life has come to an end, be it a relationship, a job, or a big change. Collecting context clues like these can help you determine the reasons why you are having these dreams.
How to remember a dream?
For dreams to become a real source of wisdom for you, you must first learn to remember them. This is a rather long but exciting process. The so-called “dream diary” helps best in this matter, and you should start one. It should always be near your bed. Dreams and everything you remember about them should be written down immediately upon waking. Moreover, the diary page should be divided into three columns: emotions, colors, symbols.
Practice
There is a simple energy ritual that will help you remember the dream you see. It's easy to do it yourself. Before you go to bed, take a comb and comb your hair properly. And then put the comb under your pillow. Already in the morning you will see the effectiveness of this technique.
Jump
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Jumping in a dream demonstrates your desire for something for which you are full of determination and enthusiasm. Perhaps they represent the joy you recently experienced while overcoming a particular obstacle.
If you are jumping in a negative context, such as over lava or to cover distance, it could mean that you are nervous about specific events that are likely to happen that day.
The Importance of Dreams
Why, you ask, do you need a dream book? The meaning of dreams is very important not only for a person standing on the path of serious changes, but also for someone who does not expect any changes. The scenes seen in a dream are a product of our emotions and experiences. During the day, the brain receives and processes information, and at night, some details are reproduced by events that the sleeper observes from the outside or is a direct participant in. If during the day you missed something important, it will appear in a dream, but not necessarily in its pure form, but under some kind of “cipher” that needs to be solved.
Some sources contain reliable facts about how dreams helped predict and sometimes prevent various situations:
- receiving an inheritance or financial collapse;
- unexpected marriage proposal;
- disasters with loss of life;
- fires, thefts and fraud;
- death of a relative;
- a clue to solving a complicated crime;
- other fateful clues.
To correctly interpret your dream, you need to follow the instructions. The described practice will help determine whether the dream has a good meaning or warns about something.
Types of dreams
In this article you will learn:
First, it’s worth understanding what sleep is. From the physiological side of the issue, human dreams have been studied quite well and in detail. A huge amount of research and experiments have been conducted on this topic, all of them have been published and there is plenty of information on the Internet. I think that I will not be mistaken if I say that we are interested in the other side of this topic, namely the esoteric side.
If you are a regular visitor to our website, then you are already aware that our body has more than just a physical form. There are quite a lot of them, the main ones being astral, etheric and mental. It's the same with the worlds. In addition to the material world familiar to us, there are also so-called subtle worlds. It is in one of them that our astral body travels during the sleep of the physical body. However, these journeys do not always take place and end in the same way. There are many types of dreams, but it is worth dwelling on only three of them in detail.
Conversation with the subconscious
The most common and simplest form of sleep. It lies in the fact that a person’s journey in the world of sleep reflects the experiences of the material world. This type of dream is most often easier to interpret than all others, because the discrepancy with reality in them may be minimal.
We have such dreams when something is very bothering us, or has completely captured our attention. Our fears may be displayed there, or maybe what we are trying to hide from ourselves. But, as you know, self-deception is a thankless and useless thing. Sleep is one of the ways of the subconscious to talk to us, and we should not neglect it. After all, the subconscious is our soul.
Experience traveling through the subtle world
If everything in a person’s life is good and smooth enough so that the subconscious does not worry and does not try to convey something to you, then it simply wanders through the subtle world, interacting with the entities that fill it.
Such interaction, as a rule, is quite harmless and does not pose any threat, but not always. For a large number of inhabitants of the subtle world, a person is nothing more than a generator of food - energy. And since such entities cannot process positive energy in large quantities, they force us to produce negative energy through nightmares.
To protect yourself from these unpleasant creatures, you need to do the cocoon repair practice before going to bed, which you can find in my training. Otherwise, often thanks to such entities there is a huge drain of energy, and you can wake up broken and in a terrible mood, not to mention other consequences.
Warning from higher powers
This happens rarely, but it does happen. Such dreams are nothing more than a connection between strong entities of the subtle world and our consciousness in an attempt to warn us about some important event or dissuade us from any action. Such dreams include the arrival of long-dead acquaintances or relatives. If a person died recently, then the dream most likely falls into the first category.
Such dreams are always well remembered and feel very vivid. Another thing is that such entities are not always expressed clearly, because the level of perception of our consciousness during our material existence is very low. Therefore, interpreting such dreams for a person without the necessary skills can be very difficult. But more on this a little later.
Reading the symbols
In the third column we write down symbols (these are objects, animals, natural phenomena, actions that happened to you in a dream). Despite the fact that dream interpretation is a purely individual process (dream books are not effective in this matter, the information in them is too superficial), there are images whose meaning is the same for most people.
Practice
Here, for example, are some of the universal symbolic images: Light or clear water - calm; A dog is a friend; The cat is a woman to beware of; The snake is the enemy; Pig, rat - betrayal; Pisces - birth, luck, wealth; Tree - longevity; Money - a quarrel or dispute; Dark or dirty water - gossip; Pregnancy is heaviness; Turtle - slowing things down; Death - longevity; Feast - profit; An empty table is a disease; Crying in a dream is joy; Car, plane - speed (something should happen soon); Rain - sadness; Snow is a surprise.
Hide
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When you hide in a dream, you either want protection or feel that you are trying to isolate some part of yourself from the rest of the world.
When interpreting such dreams, try to recall in your memory what happened that day. Is there any aspect that you would like to show to the public? Perhaps there is something that worries and worries you? These clues may lead you to the real reasons.
Get trapped
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If you are trapped, it means that you feel stuck in a situation in which you do not know how to behave. If you have a conflict with someone you know and cannot come to a resolution, you are more likely to have dreams like this. If in a dream you see another person being trapped, most likely you think that you are losing control over him and feel that he is making the wrong decisions.
