Using The Dream Dictionary
Most of us have great difficulty, when we begin learning the art of dream interpretation, to see our dreams and their symbols as anything other than what they are.
How many times have you heard someone tell you a dream and say it doesn't make sense, or thought that yourself?
The idea of the Dream Dictionary is to get the novice dream analyst to see their dream symbols as everything but their literal meaning.
Whilst there are 'universal symbols' that mean pretty much the same to everyone in dreamland, we also have unique or personal symbols that are different for each person.
For example, if both Jane Teresa and myself dreamed of a train, we could pretty much agree that trains are something to do with 'training' or 'the track in life we are taking that might be rigid and inflexible'. We'd need to look at the other dream details of our individual dreams to decide which meaning might apply.
However, if we both dreamed of "peanut butter" we could both have two very different personal associations.
Peanut butter might be Jane Teresa's favorite spread, but it might make Belinda gag at the thought of swallowing it.
In Jane Teresa's dream, peanut butter possibly points to something Jane Teresa is loving or enjoying, whilst in Belinda's case it could be about something going on in her life that she's having a hard time swallowing.
Practice training your analytical mind by entering the 'strange, bizare or weird' dream symbols into the dream dictionary and record your personal meanings or associations.
People in our dreams often represent our attitudes or beliefs. Therefore, when other people come up in your dreams, you can enter their name and then describe their personality.
For Example: "Name" - Great thinker, expansive mind, always coming up with new ideas. This person represents that part of you. All of your dreams are about you. They are rarely about other people.
You will find that once your mind is trained to see beyond literal meanings, you won't need to keep filling the dream dictionary. You'll just know when you are doing your own interpretations to look beyond the literal. It's amazing how quickly that will happen, once you've retrained your mind.
Jane Teresa's first book, Sleep On It and Change Your Life, is a great book for getting your mind around the whole range of personal and universal dream symbols. And it's available as an Ebook download.
The Dream Dictionary can be accessed from the Main Menu. Adding entries, navigating, and searching are done in exactly the same manner as entering Dreams. You can also Print the Dream Dictionary by clicking on the Reports button from the Main Menu.
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