how do you treat your dreams?

**acidbolt** · 11-04-2012 12:16 PM

hi everyone.

I was just curious how much thought you give your dreams, or how much time you spend on them. Do you usually try to interpret them? I found that I don't really have to do that, my dreams are already reflecting my current thoughts and happenings, I've never found any deep meaning in them. So in a way I already interpret them in my mind while writing.

Other than that.. I like to add pictures to my dream journal.. And sometimes I stand in the middle of my room and replay my dreams in my imagination, thinking about what to do if I became lucid. I thought it could help me with DILD but I stopped doing that.

So how do you treat your dreams?

Oh, im not talking about lucid dreams though. Sorry if this thread doesn't make much sense, I tend to have trouble organizing my thoughts lol.

**TwoCrystalCups** · 11-04-2012 01:14 PM

Yes i interpret them, while i replay the dream in my head i see what it is trying to tell me, then i write it down. Usually the replay encounters some feeling to it and intuition and also connecting some parts to waking life.

**Carrot** · 11-05-2012 11:10 PM

I tend to interpret more of my lucid dreams than non-lucids. I feel that I can somewhat understand my non-lucids after doing constant dream journalling because they're usually a reflection of happenings in real life or what I want. I can understand the meaning of my dream on the surface, however I'm not too sure about the deeper meaning of my dreams.

I used to post my dreams on DV in the dream interpretation section and hope that someone can interpret my dreams for me. Turns out that nobody is a professional dream interpreter here and they can't be sure too. Someone on DV once told me that the only person who can best understand my dream is myself, after all it's my dream. I didn't want to bother DV members by asking for interpretations so I stopped thinking about interpreting my dreams too.

But I've got a feeling that some dream symbols hold a universal meaning so their meanings can actually be searched up online. However if I were to really interpret my dreams, I guess it will just lead to emotional problems, insecurities in life, etc.

**DreamInception** · 11-06-2012 09:21 AM

This is a really good question because personally I like dreams to be as natural as possible without me having to do anything to conjure up a meaningful dream, a lucid dream or any dream that gives me good productive energy. Yet I've found that practice does make the difference, and using techniques to develop energy within dreams also makes a difference. So often times I do try to do certain techniques and give my dreams energy, quite often through music and meditating to what I'd like to dream about. There is a fine line on what I try to do because like I say, I try to make them as natural as possible but having certain things that you do does help a lot.

Overall I treat my drams as a portal of energy, one that I can learn and grow from, and one that does help me in daily life. So overall I guess I treat my dreams with great dedication, respect, and ideally I like to give them the right amount of energy and thought.

**Booney** · 11-06-2012 05:13 PM

I like to track my dreams down to the point where they come from.
Like recently I figured out why yellow and blue were so prominet in my dreams.
Turns out it's probably the long road I drive by with bright yellow lights and a big blue neon sign at the end. Since I work nightshifts this is on of the last things I see before going to bed.

I try to track my dreams down like this so I can get a better understanding of how my mind makes my dreams.