{"id":240,"date":"2021-01-03T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mesmarriahmiracle.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2021-01-03T22:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:50:42","slug":"14-dreams-lets-get-practical-practical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mesmarriahmiracle.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/03\/14-dreams-lets-get-practical-practical\/","title":{"rendered":"14. Dreams\u2014Let\u2019s Get Practical, Practical."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I know a lot of people don\u2019t want to take dreams seriously. Many will say they never remember their dreams. I\u2019ll tell you now that when you make the conscious decision and intent-to-grow as far as you can, searching for your true Self, seeing what your life is truly about\u2014dreams will be the instrument of communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my Cliff Notes version of things I learned that were helpful in recording and interpreting dreams. This will also help when you come back and review your dreams in a week, month, year or years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From experience I know that reviewing your dreams almost always sheds more insights. There was the time when I was in much emotional pain from ending a relationship that was unhealthy. Lamenting my pain to a friend, she advised me, \u201cLook at your dreams a year ago.\u201d  And sure enough, a year before it had all happened, was a dream in which \u2018on a dark road (in the dark\/unknown) a man had fixed my car (the way I go thru life), then left with two children (the man in question had a boy and a girl). I was grateful for his help, sad that he was leaving, and when he left, I said: \u201cI hope you will come back.\u201d  Having the whole scenario played out, a year before it happened, gave me an understanding and then acceptance one year later that the man had done what he was supposed to do, and that was all. Acceptance brings relief from pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here\u2019s a practical practice of using dreams\u2014shorthanded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Write down THE DREAM<\/strong> no matter how weird or convoluted it seems, as much detail as you can\u2014main characters, places, background, weather, colors, odd things, all of the details.<\/li>
  2. Write a SHORT STORY LINE<\/strong> or overall one-sentence-type theme to the dream which may give you a reference as to the meaning. Edgar Cayce says to check to see if the opposite is true in your life. If so, the dream may be letting your know you need to find the happy medium between the two opposites! (See Compensatory Dreams below.)<\/strong>. Watch for a (many times humorous) play on words, \u201call wet,\u201d \u201cthe stronger the wind, the higher I can fly,\u201d \u201csomething \u2018bugging\u2019 you,\u201d \u201csomething under your skin,\u201d \u201clet go of the baggage,\u201d \u201cin over your head.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Give a brief overview of the EVENTS OF THE DAY before<\/strong> because you learn that most dreams are reactive to something conscious or unconscious that was stirred in the previous day\u2019s activity. An emotion perhaps that flashed for an instant but you tamped it down. Your dream wants you to recognize\/acknowledge that emotion. Plus it also gives you context if you come back to review your dreams a month, a year, a decade later.<\/li>
  4. What were the FEELINGS in the dream?<\/strong> Do they relate to a like-feeling from the day before? Or to something that is happening in your life now? Sometimes dreams will take a feeling, especially a scary one and construct a scenario around it to show you just how afraid you are (whether you want to admit it or not) and help you acknowledge\/face\/accept\/deal with it.<\/li>
  5. First consider if it is a PHYSICAL WARNING in some way?<\/strong> For example, I had received notification of a recall on my car for something in the front suspension. Busy life. I didn\u2019t want to be bothered to take time off work and go to the dealership, yet I was wondering if I was feeling something symptomatic in my car or just imagining it. I had a dream that showed my car wobbling as I was driving it. This dream was enough to make me act, and, indeed, the car was in need of the repair.<\/li>
  6. Note the MAJOR SYMBOLS in the dream.<\/strong> What did you choose in set-dressing your dream? Describe what the symbols mean to you specifically (even just writing adjectives helps). If that description brings to mind any \u201cincidents\u201d or memories, (called associations), note those, too. i. e. That \u2018symbol\u2019 or that \u2018feeling\u2019 reminds me of the time ________. Dream interpretations can be non-linear, too. Sometimes just remembering this \u2018association\u2019 and \u2018that story\u2019 all of a sudden fits the two together and you feel \u201caha\u201d or \u201cooohhh\u201d coming out of your mouth before you even know it.\u00a0<\/li>
  7. Also know that some symbols contain specific meaning for you,<\/strong> like Mr. Stewart, my favorite teacher, father figure. Others are of the ages,<\/strong> from the myths, the psyches of all humans over our entire evolution. When from the ages, the symbol carries more than just the obvious\u2014it is the best possible symbol for your unconscious to communicate to your conscious self. Writing adjectives to describe each symbol may help identify what issue or part of your psyche you are dealing with. (I remember one person explaining, \u201ctry to describe the symbol as if you were explaining it to someone not from this planet.\u201d)<\/li>
  8. If it is a \u2018series dream,\u2019<\/strong> repeating a specific symbol or location or even an entire dream\u2014 try to see the differences in the dream. How are you doing\u2014disintegration or improvement? Or is it trying to bring home a point that you just are not getting or acting on?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cDreams which are not interpreted<\/em> are like letters which have not been opened.\u201d<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Talmud<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Learning to interpret dreams is an-ever-progressing lesson. You\u2019ll get recurring symbols, like Blake Book (for my art), or my high school teacher, Mr. Stewart, who always affirmed there was a \u201clesson\u201d in there somewhere or he was starting a new class or I was failing my \u2018test.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You learn that your house means you, your life. Dream of your house? Describe the house.\u00a0 Does that sound like how you feel\/see your life?\u00a0 Are there new rooms that you didn\u2019t know were there that seem happy, intriguing, you\u2019re pleasantly surprised to find and want to explore? (That\u2019s all you!) One time in my dream, my house was completely destroyed (representing a year that was so financially distraught that I feared I would lose my house). Yet in the dream, it dawned on me that I would now be able to rebuild it any way I wanted. The dream identified my biggest fear and gave me an entirely different approach and outlook to my fear. (You may also remember the lesson I learned from the Catalyst<\/strong>: When you are irrational from fear, determine the worst that can happen, come to accept that even if that happened, you would still survive, be you. It takes you from irrationality to being rational enough to focus on thwarting that outcome.) This dream did that for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Windows in a house? Probably your \u201coutlook.\u201d  I saw a big garbage heap from one window. Was that the way I saw my world at the time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Your car can represent your life and the \u2018means by which you go through life.\u2019 Sometimes my car would be lost, stuck, sitting in a parking lot, have flat tires. I called these \u201cstatus\u201d dreams<\/strong>\u2014they were letting me know how well I was (or was not) doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Flying dreams are by far about the best. I came to learn they usually referred to my \u2018spirit soaring\u2019 because I\u2019d made a discovery or had a realization the day before. Think of the exhilaration that soaring gravity-free must bring\u2014gravity-locked no more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Flying is usually related to the \u2018mental\u2019 aspects. Many times my flying dreams would encapsulate the \u201cfree\u201d feeling of joyousness when I had realized something that \u2018elevated\u2019 my life, my way of thinking, my insights into The Big Picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In most of my flying dreams, flying was a mechanical focus. It required body control and torque, arms out for stability. But one notable dream, I made a startling new discovery\u2014a shortcut to flying! I dreamed all l I had to do was \u2018think\u2019 and I \u2018dissolved into the air\u2019 is how I described it, yet it felt as exhilarating as flying\u2014even moreso because I had discovered a new way to fly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After writing down the dream, I went to record the previous day\u2019s events (#3 Above) and realized that amazing dream was capturing the elation my soul was feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The previous day, my good friend and I had been with my ex-husband who was showing her a new house. He took us to dinner, and there he related to my friend that what I had done to claim a life of my own had been a very brave thing to do. He explained that he would not have learned some of the things he did if I had not left. He, whose heart I had broken, called me brave. The dream held the depth of the exhilaration I felt to hear such acceptance and affirmation from the father of my daughters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dreams Can Spell It Out for You.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Occasionally you get a pretty obvious dream. My journaling notes: \u201cWhen I had this dream, there was this subtle urging\u2014\u201cyou should remember this dream\u201d\u2026it was like I understood the symbolism while I was dreaming it. From my journal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cHouse in the background\u2014it belonged to me and the man I was with. The two of us started to soar, up above everything but I couldn\u2019t see a landscape. I was hanging on to some \u2018baggage,\u2019 heavy cumbersome suitcase-like thing. I\u2019m not sure exactly \u2018what\u2019 it was, but I was holding on behind it, being pulled through the air. The man was sorta leading, encouraging, reassuring me that if I let go, I could soar even more. I finally \u2018let go\u2019\u2014releasing the \u2018baggage\u2019 to really let myself soar\u2014and I gleefully and proudly proclaimed, \u201cI finally let go!\u201d There was a little jerk like you might feel if you jettisoned something heavy, but I recovered stability immediately. I was proud of finally \u2018trusting\u2019 to \u2018let go\u2019 like a kid learning to trust your balance on a bicycle or trust floating in water.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cLet go of the baggage, I could SOAR!\u201d (I\u2019d even packed \u2018all my stuff\u2019 conveniently in a bag!) I finally let go and trusted! (Trust had been a highly suspect emotion in my experience!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This dream came seven years after I had encountered The Catalyst<\/strong> (kissed awake). I had been working to claim my life for my own\u2014which included integrating the Animus\/masculine attributes of independence. Was the \u2018encouraging male\u2019 who said if I just \u2018let go the baggage, I could soar\u2019 my Animus? (If indeed my Animus, I described him as \u2018older, wiser, a mate, comfortable, low-key, quiet, assured. I\u2019d like to think my perfect opposite would be just like that!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One flying dream was interpreted as I flew: \u201cThe stronger the wind, the higher I can fly.\u201d<\/strong> I took that one to heart. It gave me courage to face whatever was blowing me about in my life at the time, and to see strong headwinds as merely the opportunity to soar even higher! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There is also a category called, Compensatory dreams.<\/strong> You can have a dream that is pretty much the extreme polar opposite of what\u2019s happening in your life. It\u2019s for the purpose of recognizing you need a balance between the extreme in the dream and the extreme opposite in your life. The human mind seeks balance and equilibrium. Your dream Maker is the communicator between your conscious existence and what your unconscious needs for your best life. I have to confess that sometimes in my lowest, hardest, most painful conscious life, many times I would have a compensatory dream that woke me up laughing!\u00a0 I needed balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I\u2019ll also confess there were some dreams I just had to record and hope for further clarification at some point. Hence why we need to press the Pause button from time to time and \u2018look back.\u201d Sometimes it would be weeks, even years later, I\u2019d be reviewing my dreams from a bigger picture and perspective view-point, and the meaning would ring clear as a bell.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We modern day humans try so hard to quantify our lives\u2014numbers, years, net worth, fixed dogmas, final answers, five-year plans and retirement plans. Objective at the expense of the subjective. Discount and discard what we cannot see or grasp. Working with dreams connects you with a feeling that there is something <\/em>inside each of us, working with us\u2014<\/em> something more than just numbers and things and stats\u2014something that wants us to fulfill our soulful yearning for a meaning to life, our life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cIf one watches this meandering design (of dreams) over a long period of time, one can observe a sort of hidden regulating or directing tendency at work creating a slow, imperceptible process of psychic growth \u2013the process of individuation.\u201d Carl Jung \u201c<\/em>Man and His Symbols\u201d p. 160<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    If you want more detail and depth on working with your dreams, besides buying books, I found this site: https:\/\/cafeausoul.com\/dreams\/inspired-by-dreams\/dream-expert-kari-hohne<\/a>\u00a0 She has incorporated both Freud and Jung in dream interpretation and has a very easy-to-read, practical approach which can be quickly helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you\u2019re new to Mesmarriah Miracle, it\u2019s best to start at Post #1 and continue in numbered sequence, like Connecting the Dots.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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