How do you know what your dreams really mean/

Question

How do you know what your dreams really mean/

Answer 1

Dreams are, in most cases, coded films that express feelings within yourself that you may or may not be aware of. In essence, dreams work to reveal yourself to yourself.

For example, if you are feeling more anxious than you are letting yourself know about, your mind will dream of a scenario where you might be getting chased or embarresed in public or trying to do 150 things at once, to reinforce that you are feeling this feeling and, since you are feeling it, to do something about it.

Our dreaming mind does this because it has access to all the thoughts and feelings and stuff thats extremely personal, stuff that pretty much no one else can know about us. If someone sees us standing too close to a fire, or seeing smoke coming from our clothes, they can rush over and put the fire out. But if someone is simply standing there, and their anxiety is building and building in them with each passing second, how often can someone else truly see us, and thus be able to help us get past whatever it is that is making us anxious. Dreams act as that 'friend' trying to put out the fire we are standing too close to.

Dream dictionaries can help people get an idea of how their dreams are talking to them, but thats like a book telling you what someone else's idea of stairs in a dream mean. Maybe the stairs mean its an obstacle in your path, one you have to work a bit harder to overcome, but you can do it (its only stairs.) Or, it could be its the stairs in high school leading up to the dreaded chem lab, and the stairs are a metaphor your mind understands is really about your dread of the chem lab, which is another way of saying fix the dread of chemistry and your dread of looking at those stairs will go away. Sometimes, the stairs are there because of a stray comment someone made that you really didn't think about at the time but mean something else now that you are thinking about it. In that case, the stairs would simply be your mind 'sorting through the trash' of your daily thoughts, throwing them all into a big pile before dumping them, and thus not significant at all. A dream dictionary is certainly not going to be able to give you all of those interpretations, all equally valid, because two of those are personal to you and your experience.

Read some dream books but listen to yourself even more. The best interpretation is found in the meeting between those two.

Answer 2

become lucid and create your own dreams.

http://www.lucidity.com/

Answer 3

ask the dream interpreters.