Do you believe in dream interpretations ?What is your experience in this field ?

Question

it is said there are persons whose dreams come true.such phenomena arent common to all humans .what is an experience worthy to be mentioned here ?

Answer 1

I'd rather not go by them. I have a book that I turn to every now and then if the dream really bothered me. But I try not to base everything on what the book says. One of my friend's mothers has a religious book (Muslim) written by a sheikh, I forgot what his name was, he interprets what some symbols in dreams may mean like if you saw a cat, what a cat means and things of that nature. There's this web site that I use every now and then too, www.dreamdictionary.com...hope I helped

Answer 2

ask Josef

Answer 3

I believe that most dream interpretation that I've heard of is too simplistic.  

I tend to buy into the Jungian view, that dreams are a mechanism by which our higher self communicates to us, in a symbolic manner, through our unconscious.  The purpose of the communication is to slowly move us along the path of what Jung termed "individuation" which can kind of be explained as the path toward spiritual/psychological wholeness.

Jungian dream analysis contends that the symbolic messages in our dreams pertain to our own personal journey and not to wider world events (a meteor is not really going to slam into Earth because I saw it in a dream).   Along those lines, symbols in the dreams have meaning based on your personal association with those symbols (so a birthday cake in your dream doesn't mean the same thing as a birthday cake in my dream - as opposed to flying always means s*x and the color red always means such and such...).

A good book on the subject of Jungian dream analysis is "Inner Work" by Robert Johnson, although one should be forewarned that in order to buy into Jung's particular school of thought with regard to dreams you kind of have to buy into his larger concepts of individuation, archetypes, collective unconscious etc.  and it would be useful to have at least a basic understanding of Jungian psychology (see "The Beginner's Guide to Jungian Psychology" by Robin Robertson).

Anyway, - that's my .02...