Dreams

[goldmbe31]

Hi everyone!
I'm curious to know if anyone here records and analyses their dreams, thinking that they may harbor wisdom that can help us solve our problems and grow into more whole individuals?

-goldmbe
http://www.discountenlightenment.com

[Angela]

Naturally!

[technologyslice]

I don't record them, however I do pay attention to them and don't just brush them off.

[Mato Kinze]

I keep a dream journal next to my bed and write out my dreams every morning as soon as I wake up - before I'm even really conscious.

I do it for several reasons. For me, it's a way to increase my Lucid Dreaming capacity by looking for common "dream articles" - those things that only occur to me in dreams and not in "real" life. I am trying to train myself to recognize those objects/situations and then force myself to do a reality check. The goal here is to recognize I'm dreaming and become lucid and thus have the power to consciously affect the dream environment.

I also record my dreams for Spiritual purposes. If you believe that the Dreamtime is a "between place" that allows you to connect on higher plane with Spirit, then recording certain powerful dreams helps you work through them in your conscious life. I leave the interpretation to a Holy Man - my teacher - but most of them don't really need any interpretation. When I have a Medicine Dream, it's usually pretty clear what it means.

However, I have run at least one dream through this forum and Erin was generous enough to validate what I was thinking about it anyway.

[Liara Covert]

As it happens, I do keep a dream journal and find it very useful. This process has strengthened my ability to astral dream and has deepened my spiritual journey. I also assist people to explore meaning in their own dreams. I encourage everyone to get to know themselves in new ways by gaining insight into their dreams and developing their own dream interpretation skills.

[Old Soul]

Some of my dreams are so profound or , they effect me so physcially that I am forced to pay attention to them

[danas]

My dreams are my guides.
Some of them are prophecitic (even about world events)
Some are a window to my subconious. (just reflecting my worries for instance.)
I always look for a positive interpertation and not a negetive one.
If they really connect to nothing in my life, but are still very strong, i refer to them as past life experience.
Ignoring them would be like recieving an important letter and not opening it.
I sometimes use online dictionaries to help me interpert them, like this one:
sometimes people tell me there dreams, and without noticing they reveal more then they would like to...
If someone close dies, we "hang out" for a while in my dreams, before they move on (about a year).
My father has the same thing. he would get messages where he lost things, and find them there the next day (like under chair 5 row 16 in the cinema),
when I was living far away he would know things I was doing (even naughty things...) through his dreams. this would freak me out.
so yeah, I use my dreams. they are like gifts

[Susan21]

There is a video on YouTube about remembering and interpreting dreams you might find interesting. YouTube - "The Art of Remembering and Interpreting Dreams"