Dream Interpretation

Dream Interpretation – How Dreams Serve as Guides

One third of your life is spent sleeping. If a person lives to 80 years of age, assuming they get 8 hours of sleep  and they dream for an average of 2 hours per night (4-7 dreams per night)… they will have spent 58,400 hours of their life, or 2,433 days, in a different realm!


When you look at dreaming in terms of pure functionality, Nature doesn’t design anything that doesn’t have a function. So what is the function of dreaming?

The Purpose of Dreams

When we dream, the mind brings up vital information we are not aware of during waking hours, in order to process things going on in our lives. We also dream about things we don’t want to acknowledge in conscious thought. So dreams can be very revealing. They can tell us if we have things in our lives that need attention; they can validate choices or let us know that what we chose isn’t for our higher good. They can be prophetic, healing, illuminating, insightful, entertaining and yes, really, really bizarre. Dreams are the window to the subconscious. Remembering and analyzing dreams can serve to make you more self-aware, point you in the right direction, heal past emotional trauma and empower you.

Dream recall and interpretation is a skill you can develop in the Silva Method program. The wealth of valuable insight and information you access in your dreams will help you transform your life.

Remembering Dreams

Before you analyze your dream, you have to remember as much of it as you can. Use the Silva Method’s Dream Control exercise will teach you to wake up just after a dream phase, record your dreams, and in the process learn control of your mental abilities.

Everybody dreams, whether they recall dreams or not. Some people may have had nightmares as children and created a mental block to avoid remembering dreams. Dreams hold a lot of valuable information and you can learn to become a participant in your dreams – a lucid dreamer – and control the dream as you have it.
If you remember a dream, you confront your issues – your fears, your actions, your beliefs – and you can expand on this by keeping a dream journal. Every person’s dreams are as unique as their life experience. Every person will have unique symbols and metaphors in their dreams – symbols that have meaning on a deep level.
Once you write a dream down and analyze it, you will be guided through difficult decisions and struggles you may be experiencing. Some of the symbols and metaphors of your dreams are obvious to you right away. Sometimes you have to sit with yourself, meditate on a dream and listen to your intuition to help you extract the meaning.

Using the Dream Control exercise to wake up to record a dream is a useful skill. Half of a dream’s content is forgotten within 5 minutes of waking up. 10 minutes after waking up, most of the dream is lost. That’s why keeping a dream journal or dream log is essential to dream analysis. When you wake up to record a dream, write down everything you can remember – if you have trouble recalling the whole dream, write down a brief account of the fragments you remember and some key points. When you get up in the morning, you can enter the alpha level and enhance your journal entry with details and insights – functioning in alpha is essential to the Silva Method exercises and for dream recall.

The normal waking beta brainwave level is too judgmental and critical of the bizarre nature of dreams. Dreams don’t follow rules of time and logic so you want to be in the more open and relaxed alpha state of light meditation. Be sure not to judge your dreams as you write them down. No censorship allowed!

Analyzing Dreams

When you write about your dream and analyze it, write in the present tense. This makes it easier to re-enter the moment of the dream
Some points to ponder that will help you extract the meaning of your dreams:
First, always ask questions when you’re interpreting your dreams. Ask your higher self how the dream is relevant to what’s going on in your life and what lessons it holds for you.

• Significant images, patterns or symbols
• Who is in the dream? What qualities do they represent – remember, the people in your life serve as mirrors to you and as teachers so their presence in the dream is not coincidence, it’s vital information.
• What is the location/scene?
• What is the mood? How does it make you feel? How do you feel when you wake up?
• Are there any symbols that parallel situations in your life? Draw on possible solutions, guidance or ideas from the dream. Some dreams may be there to empower you while others are there to steer you in a better direction.
• Put yourself in the position of someone watching YOU in the dream (since you are the observer in your dream, look at the situation from another perspective). What’s happening to you? What are you doing? What are you saying?
• Spoken messages may appear less frequently than symbolic messages.

You can consult a dream dictionary for help with meanings – but don’t treat these as gospel! No dream dictionary definition can say exactly what a dream means to YOU. These are generalizations based on many people’s experiences. However, they may stimulate you to look at your dream in a different way, or may give you clues about the symbols in your dream.
As you get used to analyzing your dreams, compile your own dream dictionary. As you evolve, you’ll notice some symbols falling away and others appearing so this will be an ongoing process of self-discovery.
With practice and a willingness to really listen to your intuitive guidance, you’ll be able to interpret the meaning of most of your dreams. Make the most of your dream time and you’ll gain a greater understanding of yourself, and develop an ability to problem solve outside the realm of your normal way of thinking.

Start your first Silva meditation today to learn how to control your dreams

Source: http://www.silvalifesystem.com/articles/mindpower/dream-interpretation-how-dreams-serve-as-guides/