Dream Books

[Steve-O]

My mum and my girlfriend each own their own dream book. After flicking through the pages, some of the descriptions seemed weird. For example; the other night i dream that alligator's where let loose and nobody would kill them, In the book it says unless you kill it, it's unfavorable to the dreamer, meaning caution. My question is, how reliable are thses books, and is it worth believing everything they say, or just take it as rubbish?

[mongreloctopus]

your own interpretation is much more valuable than anyone else's...especially some book.

[kafine]

THe thing I always think about dream interperetation books is that... unless you've read the book previously, how does your brain know what symbols are supposed to mean what? The symbols in the books are somebody else's. AFTER you've read the book, possibly it might work for you... So I think those books are a bit pointless really. You have to learn to recognise your own symbolism from the feelings in your dreams. You can only learn from other people what the dream would mean to THEM, not to you.

[Barbizzle]

Most dreams have no meaning at all. And the books just try to guess at the most well known interiptations of hwo people feel towards those objects. If you want to interpit, just think of how the dream made you feel and what certian themes or objects that stuck out, mean to you.