Our souls yearn to dream. As an infant, sleeping all day long, we had the right idea. But then we had to wake up and get some work done. Oh well, that's life. Or is it?
It is truly an injustice that humans sleep barely enough to keep our body rejuvenated, let alone to fulfill our soul's longing for dreams that work in our lives. Then we attempt to lug the dream into daily life where we are busy and burdened and do not quite understand what to do with it.
Best answer. Leave the dream where it was. The dream interpretation from Sacred Dreamland will unlock doors in our personality, our life and our death.
Dreams are yours. Dreams are where you are invited to develop your relationship with your soul. Dreams are not Jung's or Freud's, nor a dictionary of image theories from schools of philosophy.
Why? Because you are where you are in your moment in life. Your soul has desires in this moment of yours, and your dreams are your connection with that reality.
Dreams are from our guides, our sacred self. These 'awake time' and 'asleep time' imagination stories are for us to realize our needs, our fears, our wounds, our potentials, our rejected sides, our ambition, our warnings.
In an urgent situation, our dreams connect us to our loved ones and their needs and concerns in this life. Dreams also connect us to others who need us, wherever they may be. Dreams are there to use us and change us.
How can we be changed if your dream is taken from us? We need our own dream interpretation to recover from life's intrusions.
But how do we find our own dream interpretations when we seek answers outside ourselves so readily?
Dream Interpretation Sources
Dream psychics and dream intuitives are gifted with a knowing from their intuition or from spirit guides they work with. The dreams they interpret are personal information, pertinent to the dreamer's life. Some give the service of dream interpretation, some sell the service. Most do dream interpretations for all who will ask. Again, in my opinion, these dreams are yours and seldom will you need assistance in understanding of why they are born to give benefit to you.
Soulcentric Dreamwork - Dreams are part of the dreamer
In soulcentric dreamwork (Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin) the dreams may be considered from the subjective approach. The dream is part of the dreamer. Their psyche. The dream corresponds to the subpersonalities of the dreamer. This is the same when dreams are considered from the archetypal where the parts of the dream are also considered to represent parts of the dreaming person.
The difference is that the archetypal delves to integrate soul with the deeper life hidden in dreams, thereby pulling one away from the imagery of the waking life.
Dreams can actually change the dreamer if allowed to work in the sacred dreamland, instead of being pursued in the light of day. When one is dreaming, it is best to pursue the dream in its context, in sleeptime, spending much time there to allow the soul connection.
Often I have returned to bed or given myself another turn on the pillow to allow the dream to come, with my purpose to finish the dream. And if the dream is not to my liking, I have allowed the dream to change during that second or third shift of allowing.
The Tools for Dreamwork
Tools for dreams should not thrust you awake to bring your dreams into daylight.
How often have you read that you are to gather your journal and pen, your recorder? To begin speaking or writing as you awake?
Using these tools brings the dream from sacred dreamland and into the waking ego's perspective. The tools pull you into considering the dream from an objective that says the dream represents your waking life.
What you don't need for sleeping is more important.
The tools for your nightworld images are simplicity itself.
- Darkness and quiet. A sleeping room with no television, stereo, or computer - not even a current so unplug them. If you need quiet, then use calm white noise like a fan on low.
- Style a sleeping room without mirrors or cover them.
- Make certain air circulates beneath your bed.
- Arrange your bed so neither the head nor foot is at a window.
- Open the windows if possible. Bring yourself as close to nature as possible.
- Step out into the wind or rain, spend time in the sunshine by day and moonlight before bed or in the middle of the night when you cannot sleep. Immerse yourself before and during and after dreamland.
- Flower essences are a quiet tool for dreams.
Flower essences for sleep and dreams are sometimes appreciated because a few of these flower energies are helpful for deep sleep or for dream recall. For me, they are a night in calm, deep peace. Angelica, for instance, is for receptivity of spiritual guidance to the soul. Black-eyed Susan, Chaparral, Evening Primrose, Forget-Me-Not, Lavender, Morning Glory, Mugwort, Saint John's Wort, and Star Tulip are some from Europe and North America that, at times, support calm mind in the night, memories of life before birth, insight into repressed sub-personalities, and personal dream interpretations.
8. Listen. When you have awakened, allow the dream to wash over you, create feelings within to stir and unsettle you. Take time to tell the dream out loud. It is a story from your soul Respect the dream.
Dream Interpretation On Your Own
The key is to listen. Really listen. Feel it.
Remember, the sensation of recall is more desirable than the remembering.
Delve into that sacred dreamland darkness and allow it to speak to your soul.
