Social Psychiatry Blog

Please Don’t Believe Those “Dream Dictionaries”

I have been interpreting my dreams since 1977. I learned how to do this after suffering my first panic attack while sitting in a lecture hall at University of Illinois. It was not a stressful situation and out of no where this tremendous fear came over me. I ran out of class. After a few more incidences, I decided I needed to see a psychologist and that was when I first put pen to paper and started writing my dreams. Over the years I started interpreting for others and developed the practice of interpreting my dreams. Today I am grateful for my panic attacks as they helped me understand who I.

I bet you, you don’t know a lot of people who say “I know how to interpret my dream. I have been practicing a long time.” That is because our fundamental relationship to dreams is to forget about them. Dreams are easy to forget. As a matter of fact you will forget most of them by the time you finish your fist cup of coffee.

Scientists know very little about dreams. Not much can be said about them until you start talking to psychologists especially those Freudians. Gestalt therapist can also tell you a lot about dreams. But no one knows how all those images are made up and presented. How our brain is capable of giving us imagery that in real life we would never see. It is quite a bit of magic.

I interpret dreams in a particular way. It is my way and works for me and people I interpret for. For me dreams are about thoughts or emotions one ignored or did not fully experience during the recent past. They are basically saying; “Hey!! you did not pay attention to this, please take a look.” The problem is, how does one know from all that imagery and emotion what it was that one did not pay attention to. This is where being someone who can interpret his or her dreams can help immensely.

I said that most of us tend to forget our dreams very shortly after we see them, but there are those dreams that come up over and over again and there are those which are so charged with emotion and imagery that we get very curious and start to inquire. The first thing we do is, we go to friends and family and ask them about our dreams. If we are not satisfied we start reading and googling. All of a sudden these things called “Dream Dictionaries” show up. Please do not believe what you read in these “dictionaries.” If you see a dog in your dream and I see a dog in mine, these do not mean the same thing to you and me.

Learn to interpret your dreams. You will have the opportunity to complete the past and have insight to how your mind operates.

I provide free dream interpretations on my site. You can also read dreams of other readers and get a free dream interpretation. if you like and start your own practice.


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