Thread: Dream interpretation

So basically, you want to interpret your dream while dreaming? Maybe you could, if you're lucid but you can't control your actions. If you can control your actions, that might influence the dream world, and the dream would lose it's meaning. But that's only my opinion.

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Originally Posted by savylady64

So my question is how can I use being lucid (if I can...) to better understand and interpret my dreams? I know not all dreams are explainable, but dreams are a window to the sub-conscious and therefore a way to better understand oneself; maybe there are answers there I can't find in waking life...

Sometimes I have dreams with a disembodied voice. In one dream, I started interpreting this as being my subconscious, and I've continued with that thought ever since. So if I have a question while I'm lucid, I can just ask the voice/my subconscious "directly" and sort of share control of the dream to get an answer. I've heard of other people having a character or a copy of themselves which represents their subconscious so that they can talk face-to-face with it.

Here's an example of a dream where I suddenly understood a concept/feeling which can't be communicated in the same way in waking life:

Spoiler for excerpt from dream:

My mom and I were in a somewhat dark building. I was supposed to clip a dog's nails (it may have been a person at first), but I was having a hard time. I gave up, and began studying the dog's hands. I was looking at my own hands and even toes, trying to figure out what it was that was different. I moved into the next room over to take a closer look at the dog's hands while my mom stayed in the previous room. All of a sudden, I realized what it was. The thumbs were on the outside!!! This shocked me much more than the fact that the dog had hands in the first place. I kept telling my mom that the thumbs were on the outside, trying to get her to understand the importance of this discovery. There was something about the thumbs being on the outside that felt deeply wrong.

I looked back at my own hands, and on an impulse I did a reality check and counted them. I knew I was dreaming. I told my mom, and started to go out the door. I didn't know where I was going, but I wanted to go somewhere else. To fly somewhere else. I hesitated, wondering if my mom was coming, or if I should just start off on my own. Then a voice said, "Why are you resisting?" I was confused for a moment, then interpreted this to mean that I should just let the dream go it's own course. But why would I let the dream continue normally when I was lucid? As I nervously wandered back into the room, it occured to me that maybe this could be interesting. In a normal dream, the subconscious is mostly in control, showing messages that I may not be aware of at the time. In a lucid dream, the conscious is mostly in control, and I basically do whatever I feel like. So what if I was aware that it was a dream, and listened to the messages? A direct connection to my sub-c.

Even after these thoughts, I was still uneasy. It was a combination of confused guilt, that maybe I'd been frivolous with my previous lucid dreams, and fear that whatever lessons my sub-c wanted me to learn would be hard to bear. There was a shelf full of books. As my mom pulled one out, I thought suddenly, "I can learn in my sleep everything I really want to learn while I'm awake!" I (or possibly my mom) began reading from the book. It said, "How to control people's will." It reminded me of corporations. And then the meaning of those words sank in like never before. I became very upset, to the point of crying even, saying that the concept shouldn't even exist. I heard my dad's voice, going into rant/lecture mode, "That dog would never survive in the wild." There was something about how the dog's nails would not funtion properly. My dad continued, "Constantly clinking on glass, arowroro, scratch scratch scratch, aarowowrororo..." I woke up.

Meaning I found in this dream: The last statement, about clinking on glass didn't make sense right away. I think what it means is that the dog's hands were genetically modified so that it could do something trivial and unimportant. Clinking on a wine glass, like a rich person at a party. But because of the modification to make this relatively unimportant thing possible, the dog didn't have the claws needed to survive on it's own. There are other possible symbols in this dream. Controlling someone's will, the corporations. The metaphor of a person being represented as a dog, who follows orders. Changed so they can do things that are nothing but the whim of another, and which limits their own ability to accomplish what's important to them. Domestication taken to an extreme.

Originally Posted by savylady64

Hello! This is my first post and I'm excited to get some advice for how to make my dreams even more phenomenal . For some reason I've always had the unusual talent of being able to lucid dream. In fact growing up I had incredibly vivid dreams that I could not only remember, but also repeat and develop for nights in a row. However since I've started smoking my dream recall has been quite significantly reduced along with this ability to have such incredible dreams; but I'm not too concerned about fixing that. Anyway, I never knew this was in fact lucid dreaming until my boyfriend started talking to me about how he wanted to learn to become aware of dreaming. I was confused at first because I assumed that everyone was able to live in their dreams like I could, but after I realized I had this unusual talent, my thoughts have switched not only to becoming even more lucid, but to dream interpretation as well. I've often been left questioning and pondering my dreams for hours after waking due to the incredible detail that occurs in my dream. So my question is how can I use being lucid (if I can...) to better understand and interpret my dreams? I know not all dreams are explainable, but dreams are a window to the sub-conscious and therefore a way to better understand oneself; maybe there are answers there I can't find in waking life...
~thanks for any help =]
~~sav

I read in my lucid dreaming book by Stephen LaBerge that lucid dreaming is one of the best ways to understand one's true self because you can utilize both your conscious and sub-conscious mind at the same time.

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