How do you interpret your dreams?
By betterdays
@BetterDays4Me (3777)
Philippines
April 25, 2012 11:28am CST
One mylotter wrote about his family having a gift in interpreting dreams. He said that the ability to interpret dreams runs in his family and that he usually goes to his mom to ask for interpretation. Anyway, he passed on the part of giving some examples of how they interpret dreams. If you have this type of gift or not, how do you interpret your own dreams and that of others? If possible, it would be better if you show real dreams that happened and how you or others interpreted them.
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@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
26 Apr 12
I don't really interpret my dreams in any form, I just enjoy them, because for me, it's usually kind of a visualization of several little aspects, motives, creatures, places and stuff I've already encountered, and... I always think of them as really exciting stories :).
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@BetterDays4Me (3777)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
How about the times when you have bad dreams or nightmares, do you also think of them the same way like some kind of bad story or do you try to interpret them? Anyway, I really hope you will only have good dreams to come and therefore only exciting stories to tell :)
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
25 Apr 12
Hopefully a dream will come to mind.. Our dreams are made up of symbols.. that is to say, everything in the dream is a symbol. By contemplating upon each symbol, especially the strong ones, of a dream, we may recieve insight as to what it is we are expressing in the dream / saying to our self. Recurring dream themes are especially strong dream symbols / messages.
- I used to dream of train cars.. usually on a discontinued track somewhere and after a while I realized they were representing the trailor I lived in as a teenager...
- The way to best think of a dream is to pick out the strongest symbols, whether a train car.. or a person.. or even an event or some action, etc.. What does that thing mean to me? what does it make me feel? (The dreamer is the best interpreter!)
@BetterDays4Me (3777)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
I see, so that means that we don't need others who are good in interpreting our dreams because we are the ones who could distinguish the meaning of the symbols due to our own experiences and the personalities that probably only we knew of.
So when we look at the strongest symbols in our dream, that is where we can pick up the best possible interpretations for our dreams. This makes a lot of sense.
Concerning recurring dreams, I remember I had a recurring dream of our old house which we sometimes feel presence of ghosts and spirits and I often dream of this house going to the 3rd floor and bathroom where usually the ghosts make themselves felt, and I would then feel them again in my dream and they scare me and I always end up going downstairs as fast as I can to go out of that house through the front door. And always after going out the front door, I always try to fly away from that house by jumping ( I have the ability to fly in my dreams often ). That was one of my recurring dreams before, although lately for a long time already have no dreams of it anymore. So my interpretation is that it simply shows my fear of some parts of our old house, and probably that fear hasn't completely disappeared and manifested themselves in this recurring dream. Maybe I don't dream it anymore because I have already resolved the issue and have gotten rid of the dream...maybe.
@katie0 (5203)
• Japan
26 Apr 12
People sometimes pay others to read their palm, cards, do these kind of stuff for them but I think no one knows our selves better than our own.
I look first if it was a dream of fear or courage. When it's about fear means that I'm running from something, even unconsciously and I know that fear only grows so I try to identify when I ran from it so I can confront as soon as I can.
When it gets more complicated I give it more time because sometimes they are so unconscious that turn to be a math problem.
I find out that if you ask the question you want to know without worries and go to sleep, there are many times the answer is right there, easily.
So that's it, I wait to figure out myself as a training to know me better, if it takes too long I ask my subconscience mind and it answer, it's amazing. 
@BetterDays4Me (3777)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
What you said about asking yourself a question you want to know the answer to, and going to sleep without worries and then finding the answer when you wake up, it got my attention. This shows that our subconscious mind in a state of deep sleep helps us find answers to any questions we ask ourselves, and I think this includes giving us solutions to any problems we are having. If that is the case, then having a good deep sleep can help us a lot in solving a lot of issues in our lives, or it can simply help us find answers to some questions that might be bothering us. This is interesting and seems logical to me...
@dlpierce (495)
• United States
26 Apr 12
Dream interpretation is unique to each dreamer. Symbols may help guide you in the meaning, but symbols can also mean something different in the way it is seen in the dream. For example a dog means loyalty. A dog bite means betrayal, while a barking dog is associated with pleasures, but if you love dogs it simply could mean you like their company. Let me give you a link to an article I wrote for Hub Pages to further explain why I feel I have the gift of dreams.www.diana-lee.hubpages.com/hub/MEANINGS-BEHIND-A-DREAM
@BetterDays4Me (3777)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
I read a part in your article which says that dreams can be warning signs. I have heard before of people saying they have been given premonitions in their dreams which shows that their loved one is going to die, and that dream prepared them for the sad reality to come.
In another part of your article, you showed that you had a conversation with a stranger and you were talking with each other in the dream. I think in my own experience, having conversations in a dream isn't common to me, if there were some conversations in my dreams it's only very short. I don't know if with other people they experience having long conversation in their dreams too. Anyway, I think sometimes dreams can seem really vague and it's difficult to put the meanings of the symbol together.
Anyway, congratulations for a well-written article.
@rewardsinlife (1132)
• United States
25 Apr 12
According to psychology, the act of dreaming, is when we have subconscious thoughts that we can not 'deal' with in our waking life. They are either too complicated, repressed, suppressed, or just unable to fathom and work out when we are awake, so when we are safe in our dream state, these issues come to the front to be worked out and acknowledged. Some things are tricky and masked, so it is important to not take every dream literally.
Example...had a dream a few months ago that I was shot. Now, it does not mean I am in danger of being shot in my real life, but that I am losing part of myself, or ending a chapter in my life that needed to 'die' . This was very true as I had just resigned from a job that was causing me more stress than good...that part of my life needed to end...and a new one needed to come forth.
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@september231988 (31)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
actually dreams are made due to a persons rapid eye movement during sleep. people often say to me on how to interpret dreams is that when you dream something in the near dawn your dreams mean the same thing but if you dream in midnight it means the opposite of your dreams.
@BetterDays4Me (3777)
• Philippines
26 Apr 12
Now if what you say here has truth in it, then interpreting dreams becomes a bit more complicated because now they have to ask the person what time he dreamed that particular dream that needed interpretation. Anyway, I have a feeling there's validity in what you say.
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
26 Apr 12
I'm probably the only one here who thinks this way, but I don't believe dream interpretation is any good. I take it about as seriously as I take fortune cookies, horoscopes, and palm readings (which is not at all).
I've been interested in dreams my whole life. My sister and I used to tell each other our dreams every morning while we were getting ready for school. I've been dream journaling since I was twelve, and reading lots of books about dreams, the science of sleeping, the psychological theories on dreaming, and even dream interpretation. After some long adventures in dream interpretation research which involved lots of scratching my head over "symbols", consulting "experts", and of course reading books because I love to read books, I came to the personal conclusion that I was attempting to connect dots that didn't make a picture. Too much of dream interpretation is just too squishy. Dream dictionaries rely on generalized symbols. Psychologists who actually believe in dream interpretation (and not all of them do) tell you that dream interpretation is personal and you have to make the connections between what the subconscious is trying to symbolize based on personal experience. The connections you make could be a stretch, or way too simple (going back to generalization), but the theory remains unfalsifiable because it's "personal".
My stance on dreams is that they don't mean anything. They're just the brain's nerve firings during sleep, which could be the imagination at work or memories being sorted. They can be entertaining, they can be inspiring, and they can be scary but there's no symbolic hoo-ha at work.
