How To Interpret Your Dreams (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

How To Interpret Your Dreams

[Mags]

I like the advice to give up using standard dream dictionaries, although they can be good starting points. I became familiar with these at university, and I still use those symbols that resonated with me personally (now my brain/higher self/guides know to use those to give me specific messages). Other symbols that occur regularly for me in my dreams are ones that have personal meaning for me.

[Erin Pavlina]

Yes, as time goes by you'll learn to recognize symbols in your dreams that have personal meaning to you. I have that with killer whales.

[Phantom of Destiny]

Good entry Erin, but I have a question. Does every single one of your dreams mean something??? You could interpret EVERY single one of your dreams, and you could get something out of them? I just find that very hard to grasp, as I am one of the dreamers whose dreams end up a lot like the example you gave with the flying monkey and singing butterfly tattoo. >.> lol.

[Erin Pavlina]

People who dream in that very disjointed way... it's like listening to a radio station that isn't coming in very clearly. To be honest, all of my dreams are pretty clear and not disjointed and staticky. Often I spend an entire dream just having a conversation with someone about somethign spiritual.

you've got to give your dreams your attention. Tune in that radio dial more fully. You'll start to have better, clearer dreams. Eventually you could get to a point where the dreams are not symbolic but forthright. Like this dream I had of my grandfather. Pretty forward and straight to the point:

A Visit From Grandpa

[DiscoDan]

Today, I had a dream that I was a C compiler doing some high level code optimization. Could this mean that I'm a futuristic cyborg here to save the world from Skynet?

Just kidding. (though, unfortunately enough, not about the dream )

[RTF671]

About two weeks ago I had a bizarre dream. The only details I remember is that I scratched off a scratch off and won $32,006,000. I have never idea where the extra 6000 came from but suddenly I realized oh my God I am dreaming! At what point I became lucid (first time ever ). Now when I look back at I realized it was nothing like what anyone has described for lucid dreaming; in fact it was almost ordinary. Now I'm stuck thinking I dreamed about having a lucid dream :/

I have tried to LD before but it has never worked. And as far as my life goes scratch offs have no significance, and money almost doesn't, I value my life, family, friends, all of creation, way before money.

Until recently I had no dreams, then I found Steve and you and it has really changed me. I had the knob tuned well but it has went out of tune recently, sound like an opportunity for improvement.

[Erin Pavlina]

Sometimes I do readings for people in my dreams. I hope the readings are getting dream faxed to the recipients

[Rockchick26]

Erin you make it sound so easy I have been trying to improve my dream recall/lucid dreaming techniques for over a year now,and i dont seem to be making any headway I keep having dreams that make no sense,that evoke NO emotions or feelings and dont have anything to do with whatever happened that day or in my life at all,for that matter. It often feels like they aren't even my dreams because i can't relate to them at all.

[mikeschu]

Originally Posted by DiscoDan

Today, I had a dream that I was a C compiler doing some high level code optimization. Could this mean that I'm a futuristic cyborg here to save the world from Skynet?

Just kidding. (though, unfortunately enough, not about the dream )

I've dreamt in code before. I never wake up refreshed when I do that.

That aside, this is a timely article for me. I've started writing down my dreams and wanted to go back and interpret them; now I have to take into consideration how I was feeling at the time.

[Erin Pavlina]

Rockchick, do you meditate before you go to sleep? Sometimes you have to quiet the chatter in order to go deep.

Another thing I used to do, and this is going to sound crazy, I used to ask the Dream Master to send me a clear, timely, inspiring dream, or whatever I was looking for that night. I always got what I asked for. Not sure if it was the placebo effect but it always worked. Don't ask me who the Dream Master is... just learned about him in junior high and went with it.

[dancer]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Often I spend an entire dream just having a conversation with someone about somethign spiritual.

Recently, I have experienced a very wise voice talking to me when I sleep. I am not sure if these experiences are dreams because it is just a voice, without visuals. When listening to this voice, I feel pristine and something stronger than peace. When waking after the last ?dream?, I felt slightly depressed feeling my normal energy vibration. Ironically, the voice had been telling me about vibrational energy and the energy we bring to encounters with people.

Erin, are these dreams or am I communicating with my higher self or guides or something else? Perhaps, an impossible question for you to answer, but I value your opinion.

BTW thank you for the article. Analysing my dreams is something I have on my list and you have inspired me to start journaling my dreams.

[Mags]

Originally Posted by Phantom of Destiny

Good entry Erin, but I have a question. Does every single one of your dreams mean something??? You could interpret EVERY single one of your dreams, and you could get something out of them? I just find that very hard to grasp, as I am one of the dreamers whose dreams end up a lot like the example you gave with the flying monkey and singing butterfly tattoo. >.> lol.

By far, the vast majority of my dreams are symbolic. But that could be because I love dreaming and I've paid attention to my dreams, and developing my own understanding of the types of symbols that crop up - now they're really good ways for my higher self or guides to communicate with me.

I do have a few "processing" dreams - just filing away what's happened that day, kind of jumbled, absolutely no meaning for me.

What's really cool though are the few "important message from the universe" dreams. These are very different to the symbolic ones - in them I get instruction from some sort of being (just hear the voice while being shown visuals). I love these ones, and wish I could have more of them!

[Erin Pavlina]

Yes many different types or flavors of dreams. I might do a blog entry on all the ones I can think of.

Dancer: Yeah, probably you are in communication with either guides, higher self, etc.

[Lola]

god, I love dreaming! Sometimes better than my real life. I have quick little flash-movie dreams, massive epic detailed dreams, message-relaying dreams. I totally agree with your dream interpretation advise, Erin.

Dancer, I frequently get messages that seem wiser than something I would say, sometimes metaphorically but often directly spoken.

Here's a snippet of one from last week:

I walked out to the sunroom and my dearly loved, deceased dog Jake was on his bed. I reacted with a great deal of hysterical agitation - "how can you be here? you're dead!! i saw it with my own eyes!" - etc. He calmly, smilingly looked up at me and said, "What makes you think seeing a thing makes it so?"

Sounds deep. Not sure even now what it's in reference to.

[dancer]

Wow, thanks Erin & Lola. This is new to me and it is so cool. There is a slight caveat... I don't always remember what the voice tells me. The first few times, I thought it was some weird type of dream, however, the last time, I did actually feel slightly depressed with the energy change and remembered parts of the message. Next time, I'll be prepared with a notebook by my bed and write down anything I remember when I wake up.

Before I logged on tonight, I thought it has been a while since I noticed Lola on the forums so, I was pleasantly surprised to read your post. Hope you work out what you are not believing without seeing.

[Lola]

Originally Posted by dancer

Before I logged on tonight, I thought it has been a while since I noticed Lola on the forums so, I was pleasantly surprised to read your post.

You're so powerful! You summoned me!

Sometimes I just can't or don't get dreams written down immediately. In lieu of that, especially with the *message* dreams, I'll repeat the crucial line out loud to myself several times or I'll *tell* the dream to myself. Then when I do record it, I find I can easily recall the entire dream.

[Phantom of Destiny]

Last night I had this really weird dream where there was this woman who showed me these 3 teapots with pictures on them and she told me they would predict my future. I know that some dreams come strait to the point, but a dream where a lady shows me teapots with my future on them seems a little too....good to be true.

The dream wasn't even all that vivid, it had normal dream qualities. However, there was a metaphor with one of the pictures on the teapots, which I didn't realize until a few hours after waking up. Is it really possible to get dreams so revealing like this, even to a point where there's someone telling you future events in your life or do you think it was just a plain, ordinary dream? (Remember, it wasn't as vivid as it could have been, and it had total normal dream-like qualities)

[Erin Pavlina]

As you get better at dreaming and more tuned in to your dreams, yeah, they will usually become more clear, and get right to the point.

I wrote a blog entry where one time I just said in my dream, "Stop, I want to speak to the person in charge of this dream." And the principal of the dream school I was visiting came out and said, "Okay, let's talk." Rest of the dream faded and I just had a conversation with the "person in charge of my dream."

[Angela]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

"Stop, I want to speak to the person in charge of this dream."

That is so funny and powerful! I love it. I think I will do it -- since I do so much work on the phone, maybe I will just do what I do when I get a voice recording, just say loud and clear, "Representative!" Only, maybe in this case I'll say, "DREAM Representative!"

I may even have to ask for the manager.

[andyoyo]

Do you believe you can share a dream, or communicate with another through dreams? Can you communicate with those alive as well?
I had a lucid dream when I was very young & my grandmother died, we kissed & cried & woke up shortly after. It truly felt like I was with her

[Angela]

One morning my roommate and I met up for breakfast and found we had both dreamed about Peter Sellers the night before; he had been very reassuring and told us both "goodbye, I'll miss you" a little sadly.

Turned out he'd died during the night.

[Erin Pavlina]

I'm going to write a blog entry about dream sharing this week. Had a powerful experience I want to share... stay tuned to the blog.