how would one go about interpreting his own dreams? any suggestions? i know there is people out there that can interpret them for you but i wanna interpret my dreams for myself. :bigteeth:
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how would one go about interpreting his own dreams? any suggestions? i know there is people out there that can interpret them for you but i wanna interpret my dreams for myself. :bigteeth:
Dreams are an amazing part of our life. Worth studying. It amazes me how some people here expect their dreams, something so intimate and unique, to be explained by complete strangers. They might as well look to a dream dictionary. So, your question is great. This is no tutorial, but some advice I hope you'll find helpful. :)
Only a very close friend of yours, who knows you really really good, could help you with the interpretation, and that is only if they spent the entire previous day with you. They might notice some of the details you considered to be a heavy psychology, as an ordinary data processing.
And as for the heavy psychology, even an expert would never go that far to sort out your dream details in 'what is it' and 'why is it' folders. They would stimulate your own thinking, by pointing to a subconscious pattern that was observed through multiple conversations you had.
But if you wanna do it without any help, you should generally:
- Keep a dream journal! Let the dreams out of your head, so you can see and hold the facts, be your own psychiatrist.
- Notice and mark your dream signs. They tell a lot! Once you start following those signs, you'll be able to connect them to a certain feeling.
- Increase your awereness in waking life. Pay attention to your feelings and senses. It will eventually sharpen your perception to notice all those bonds between dreams and waking life.
When you want to interpret a certain dream, you should always start with identifying the feeling! This is the most important thing!! Never, ever should you start with people or any possible events, places, whatever...FEELING!
The second step is to ask yourself: what were you doing in a psychological meaning?
Were you: observing, searching for something, avoiding, defending, offending...
After realizing that, you have interpreted most of it! Now you can read the story around it. Include the people and the places. It's completely individual of course. You should keep in mind that it is mostly data processing.
For example:
You had a dream about a person you haven't seen for 10 years and means nothing to you. You get into a frustrating verbal fight. What were you feeling? Anxiety, frustration. What were you doing? Defending your self. Now try to remember if you ever felt like this when you were around that person. Maybe there was a minor situation where you know you should've defended your self, but you didn't. You realize now, your subconscious hasn't forgotten nor forgiven that. But when you become aware of it... it starts to fade. If it's a small thing, it vanishes instantly.
There! I hope I helped! :D
thank you, this helps alot. i was looking everywhere for an answer and now i got somewhere to start. very much appreciated. :) you or someone should think about possibly writing a tutorial on dream interpretation/meaning, it might be helpful to new users as this was to me...
Glad I helped!
I'll leave the tutorial writing to someone who enjoys being formal :makeitstop: , and who is more of an expert.
You've put a simple and logical title to this thread so it is easy to find my post if someone starts searching for some help.
Feel free to ask me for more advice whenever, but the interpretation itself is, as you already know, up to you. :)
i got one for you, Dreammoods.com
Tank
To see a tank truck in your dream, suggests that you are willing to find protection via destructive means. You may be expressing your anger and feelings in a hurtful and volatile way. Alternatively, the dream indicates that you will not let anything or anybody stand in your way toward your goals.
is an example.
Or.... on the streets yesterday, you passed by a person who had a tank truck drawn on his t-shirt which you haven't consciously noticed. NEVER BEGIN THE INTERPRETATION WITH AN OBJECT!Quote:
Originally Posted by Reconsul
Dreams are too mysterious for there to be a definite shared hidden meaning to every symbol, yet there are techniques for drawing out information from symbols, combining symbols to understand a pattern, and then matching those patterns to understand the language. If you already believe that dreams are a mode of communication, either from your self or something else then it uses a language that can be deconstructed. Yet if the language is a subjective one, then it's doubtful that anyone else could truly understand it.
Dream interpretation from strangers really just allows a counter-view from your own interpretation, since rarely will you share the same knowledge about the symbollogy used in the dreams.
Yes, precisely. And what techniques for drawing out information from symbols did you have in mind exactly?Quote:
Originally Posted by TempletonEsquire
As though examining a dead language, you can find meaning to symbols through a study of their environment, so this could be either in the form of what you as a person are going through in your life or the stimuli around you, or by the context which the symbols appear from their sequence.
So if you see something in a dream that you can actually remember, you can analyze it by what was before it, around it, and after it. For instance, you might see a tank, but the tank is on a bed of roses, this subtlety changes the meaning of tank because of its context.
That is exactly why it's a stupid idea to start with symbols. It easily gets you - nowhere.
Personally, when it comes to symbols, I only pay attention to repetitive ones.