Thread: Reading Recommendations for learning to interpret dreams

Originally Posted by Voldmer

Robert Moss always emphasizes that you should interpret your dreams yourself, because others won't be able to understand the symbolism in them the way you yourself understand it.

This would be my personal belief too. Other people can be good at getting your own interpretations and thought processes going, but they can't really "conclude" the sense of a dream for you. Even then, I wouldn't say that any of my dreams ever have a single or definitive sense to them.

Although they wouldn't be books about dreaming, I do highly recommend Tom Chetwynd's "A Dictionary of (...)" series, which is a three part series. The introduction to each of these books has been of particular relevance for me when thinking about dream interpretation, which is the main reason I would recommend them to others under the context of dreams. I do not use them as literal dictionaries when thinking about interpretation of my dreams, though some entries do have common themes with some of my personal symbols.

That said, I would generally be quite wary of any book that claims to be a dream interpretation dictionary, mostly if it doesn't encourage you to think on your own at least. In addition to that, it would be a nearly impossible task for any piece of literature to have every potential meaning for every symbol that could appear, especially because many of the symbols that are unique to us may not appear at all in a dream dictionary, or at least with a meaning that would make sense or feel significant to us as individuals.