The Language of Dreams
How to define a dream? You could say that a dream contains what you should know about your psyche, but do not.
A dream does not tell what you already know, but what you need to learn. Dreams speak in stories, and newcomers to the world of working with the inner world of dreams must relearn the "as if" language of childhood. This is the language of stories and symbols. So much of our formal education is superimposing rationality (which is not a synonym for intelligence) upon our language and thought. To understand dreams one must recover the archaic and mythological language of childhood.
If there is too much of something in your life, the dreams will tell you. If there is too little of something, your dreams will inform you of this. If you are overdoing or underdoing, the dream will serve as your guide.
If your dream includes falling, ask of of the dream image, What is fallling? From grace? From esteem? In love?
If there is an image of flying, ask yourself, What am I flying over in my conscious attitude? Am I flying off the handle? How am I inflated? Am I flying toward or away from something? Is a transcendent perspective trying to free me in some way?
The goal is to create an actual experience in the here and now as you interact with the dream images rather than a dry analysis of a dream.
2 comments:
I can't figure out a dream where I woke up with tears burning my cheeks. I was crying in the dream as my daughter cut up an oriental carpet I own that has sentimental value. In real life, the carpet is special to me, but not overly so.
It is not clear from your post, but I will assume your daughter is still young. What are the sacrifices you must make as a mother? What is cut out or cut up? Losses are inevitable, but in the dream she cuts up a carpet -- this is a specific symbol of something, so make associations to this oriental carpet or better yet imagine yourself talking to the carpet as though it is alive. Ask: How does it feel to be walked on, and why has it visited you just now? It sounds like something needs to be grieved, and then honored in your life in a new way.
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