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What Do Dreams Really Mean from CNN

dreamer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:06:46 +0000

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Earlier this year I came across this interesting article on CNN about what dreams really mean. We all have dreams, but we don’t always remember them. The dreams we remember have a message for us, the ones we can’t recall have served their purpose and have let them go.

The key thing to remember is that the same dream can have a totally different meaning for another person. Dream interpretation is very specific to each individual, so books that tell you the meaning of a dream symbol might not always be accurate depending on your life experience with that symbol.

Here at Dream Guide we don’t interpret your dream, rather we guide you to interpret your own dream as you are the only one who can truly interpret your own dream. If you have repetitive and scary dreams, understanding them can completely eliminate them, so that they never come back.

What are your experiences with your dreams, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s So Important About Dreams?

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:31:42 +0000

Do you realize that all of us are creative geniuses? That’s right. Every living breathing human being is a potential Einstein or Picasso and the route to that genius is our dreams!

Mal has discovered that by guiding people to work with their dreams, a whole new world of self-discovery and actualization is opened to each of us.

Your dreams represent an essential part and expression of who you are, and nobody has the right or ability to interpret or direct you and your life’s course.

Rather than interpret your dream, Mal works with you to remember, write down, contemplate, digest, comprehend, and utilize your dreams to develop a fuller sense of self, life direction and meaning.

In a sense, Mal actually dreams the dream with the dreamer, and then intuitively, analytically, and even musically teaches you how to synchronize your conscious and dreaming self. You are the only true dream interpreter, contact Mal today and find your creative genius.

Open doors
Open your mind
Become the full and true you.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Listen To Your Dreams

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:35:15 +0000

I just came across this YouTube video by Dr. Judith Orloff about listening to your dreams. If a dream gives you a message you should follow it up. You will never know where it will take you. Stay open minded and let events unfold.

Finding the Meaning in Dreams

admin — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:03:53 +0000

I came across this article at the Hartford Current at www.current.com and found it worthwhile to share.

Finding Meaning In DreamsNovember 26, 2006

By DAN ZAK, Washington Post It is January 2009.
Imagine, for a moment, that the new president begins his inaugural address by saying he has written down and studied his dreams. With a level head, and without detouring into the psychic or prophetic, he says he hopes to understand himself better by doing some dream work.
“I mean, how would that go over in the press?” says Gayle Delaney, who for the past 30 years has striven to mainstream dream work – the practice of sidestepping classical dream interpretation for a more nuanced, personalized meditation on one’s dreams.
Delaney is the founding president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She has written books and virtually shorted out the lecture circuit in the United States and Europe. Still, many people think dream work is bosh and bunkum.
“Prejudice against dreaming is huge, in part because so much nonsense is written about it,” Delaney says.
Ask any professional with dream experience, and their message is clear: Ignore quick-fix dream “doctors” on TV and the Internet. Toss your conventional dream dictionaries to the curb; they are too strict, too patrician.
And their meanings? Meaningless.
“After all, a dream about a house must mean different things to a carpenter and an arsonist,” says Karen Shanor, a clinical psychologist in Washington.
Dreams should be worked rather than cut and dried into categories, Shanor, Delaney and others say. No book, and no one, can tell you what your dreams mean, because one’s dreaming life can be understood only in the context of one’s waking life.
As Dr. Phil-ish as it sounds, dream work is a matter of self-therapy, of being open to the possibility that reflecting on your dreams may yield some holistic or entertaining insights.
“People would just as soon think that dreams are random activity in your cortex,” Delaney says. “There are still huge swaths of movers and shakers whom I have as clients who say, ‘If I tell anybody I’ve seen you, I’ll have to deny it.”‘
Oh, if those Hewlett-Packard knuckleheads had prefaced their morning meetings with a little dream analysis …
That scenario is not so crazy. Business schools and management training programs in England and India use dream therapists to help hone problem-solving skills. Working through a conflict in a dream scenario may have a practical application to one’s waking life.
Still, there is bias against dreaming, agrees Clara Hill, a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Maryland. Some comes from a lack of understanding dream work, particularly the aspects that sound a little paranormal.
Take dream incubation, in which people condition themselves to dream about a certain topic, or prodromal dreaming, in which the body sends signals to the dreaming mind about impending illness. The validity of both is supported by a wealth of anecdotal observation and some supplementary research.
But they still have that faint whiff of the psychic. Extrasensory powers may exist, but there is no way to gather statistical proof about clairvoyance.
“I think the jury’s still out on that,” says Deirdre Barrett, a Harvard Medical School professor who uses dream work in clinical and classroom settings. “It’s a matter of faith. Most of us hear really dramatic anecdotes in that direction, and I think it’s possible there’s something we don’t understand happening in communication outside of what we’re consciously aware of. But we also underestimate coincidences.”
What about the skeptics? How does Hill respond to naysayers who invoke psychiatrist Allan Hobson’s theory that dreams are products of benign psychosis – a mostly random firing of neurons?
“They might be, but if you can use them therapeutically, and it works, that’s great,” says Hill, who has conducted about 20 studies on dreaming. “So I get out of the argument that way. The research we’ve done so far is that people really can gain insight.”

You Are the Supreme Dream Interpreter

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:15:54 +0000

Is it necessary to visit a professional Dream analyst to have the deepest and most hidden meanings of your dreams revealed? Absolutely not! Just try this simple and effective technique and a whole new world of dream growth will be opened for you.

Literal Meaning

Our dreams have a literal meaning or obvious meaning. Simply look at your real waking life, ask what’s going on and important in the here and now, and see if your dream is acting as a literal commentary and evaluation of real life events. Dreams often offer us simple solutions to complex life problems.

Emotions

Your feelings are the key! The true meaning and significance of your dream is always highlighted by the emotions evoked. By writing down these feelings, then linking them to the dream itself, and often the meaning becomes immediately clear and obvious.

Symbols

Dreams are like onions, composed of many layers, each one deeper and harder to get at. Below the more literal and immediate layers, your dreams become symbolic and visual. By analyzing your dream symbols and imagery, often links to life situations, conflicts, and problems become clear, and solutions offered.

Talk About Your Dream

Thinking and analyzing your dream is great, but when you actually talk about it deeper levels of understanding and awareness often arise. For example: an unpleasant dream of hordes of bugs might initially appear silly and insignificant. However, by actually talking about it, you might find that the “bugs” in the dream might actually be a visual pun, representing something in your life that is “bugging” you.

Don’t Worry, It Was Only a Dream

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:14:27 +0000

by Mal Cohen

Was it only a dream? Why do we belittle our dreams? Why do we dream in the first place? We dream to make sense out of our lives and to “digest” what has happened during the day. Some nights we dream and don’t remember them in the morning and other nights it seems like we went to the movies and remember everything.

There is a message hidden in those dreams we remember. The ones we don’t remember have served their purpose. When we understand that dreams are a picture of feelings and that we can understand their meaning, suddenly a whole new world opens up for us. Understanding bad dreams and nightmares becomes vitally important. Thus, repeated dreams are our subconscious’ way of informing us that there is has a message for us; something important to convey and we just don’t seem to get it. Once we understand the message, the bad dream or nightmare will stop, because we got it. Dreams are also indicators of the progress we are making in our lives. They tell us when we are stuck and when we are moving along just fine.

Dreams historically held an important place in ancient cultures. The dream counselors held an esteemed and honored position in the community. Today, in our fast-paced, technological world we hardly pay attention to our dreams, but we still keep on dreaming and then dismiss them as unimportant or as a nuisance.

Could it be that collective dreams are the heartbeat of society and that we are loosing touch with our inner selves? Is it then surprising that people are finding that there is something to dreams and that they can help and guide us?

Today’s dream counselors are facilitators, they help the dreamer interpret his or her own dreams. They are the dictionary between the pictorial language of the dream and the daily language we speak. By asking the dreamer questions and then restating the answers, the dreamer will see a picture emerging and will begin to understand the meaning of the dream.

“The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.”