Dream a Little Dream of Me: What Your Dreams Really Mean

Perhaps with a righteous purpose, dreams engender a certain level of introspection in order to fully understand their meaning.  Especially under the consideration that the same dream can hold multiple meanings.  As humans, living in ever expanding and overlapping communities and not in our own little bubbles, our minds tackle many issues and reconcile unfathomable amounts of information against so much previous experience that we must assume a layered duplicity to our dream imagery.

A step-by-step instructional on dream interpretation might begin with the notion that you must weigh each element (dominant element anyway), against the events, conflicts and relationships in your life at the time of the dream, and with those ideas in mind, only then compare the dream to the subjective definitions found in dream dictionaries.

It is vitally important to recognise the potential in better understanding the voice of our subconscious mind, if only for the reason that it has access to far more information than our conscious mind does.   There’s benefit to understanding that the subconscious mind is not only free from context, reason and self-awareness, but it’s also free from the crippling boundaries of ego.  Dreams can present us with options, scenarios and dilemmas that we hadn’t consciously considered for problems or situations we may not have even realised were relevant to our circumstances.

In the very least, understanding the meaning behind our dreams, be they frightening, emotional or just plain weird, can be a very cathartic and therapeutic experience, and is worth the introspection needed to gain that understanding.