Thread: share your opinion on personal dream dictionary

I am a fan of limited dream interpretation and the notion of learning your own dream vocabulary is pretty critical to doing that. I'm not so sure about the statement that learning somebody elses dream vocabulary will cause your own dreams to shift their languange.

The key is to understand that dreams are not messages from the sub/unconcious. They are simply your mind playing through aspects of your waking life and forming connections between them. It is this that allows the potential for the interpretation of dreams. They let you see what connections are being made. On the other hand it is this fact that also make giving any interpretation to dreams entirely futile as (more?) often than not. So dreams are using the connections that you have in your mind. If you learn a new vocabulary then you are creating new connections and so that may shift the content of your dreams for a while. The shift will only last as long as your mind accepts those connections however. A new association with some object may last for a while but will subside if there is some pre-existing deeper connection in your own mind.

Learning a new vocabulary sort of defeats the entire purpose of dream interpretation in my view anyway given that that purpose is to learn your dream vocabulary, which may be taken as your own minds conciously unknown take on the world, its sub-components and the relationships that exist between them. You have to be careful with dream interpreters. A lot of them are, in my opinion, charlatans spouting out new age, feel good garbage. Main stream psychology sort of laughs at the notion.