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Dream Symbols - A Doorway to our Unconscious
"For me dreams are the part of the nature that does not have any attention to deceive us, but express something
that know better, like plants grow up or animals search for the food the best way they can." C. G. Jung
Symbols belong to our live as a very important part of our consciousness and sub consciousness, as a kind of their messengers. Symbols
help us to express things not easy to explain, sometimes not even easy to understand them. That's why they are so present in the
language of art, religion, and esotery. We can realize the psychological importance of the symbols when we start to understand symbols'
world from our dreams.
We can feel the world around through our senses selecting automatically information with our consciousness and sending some of them to
our sub consciousness to wait until the moment when they are going to be resent to us like symbols through our dreams.
When one symbol comes to our dream there is always some very important reason why it comes in this particular moment and in this
particular form. The form of our dreams is completely different from the form we express the things in every day life. When we try to
explain something we have a kind of start and the end of our story, certain logic easy to be understood. In dreams, it is different. It
is totally different world with its own logic, selection and presentation. And all that serve us to dig something deeply hidden in our
sub consciousness.
If you are really interested to come closer to your subconsciousness, try to come closer to your dreams.
Always keep in mind that the message is in the dream, so stay in the story of the dream coming again and again to it from all possible
sides until you think you have got the point. Then start again the same procedure. Sometimes we can be surprised with the second
approach after we had already understood the very first content of the dream. It is like an experience with the movie. After watching
it for the first time, each next opens some new and very interesting point of the same story giving a completely new impression about
the whole.
Our consciousness sends us signals from our inner world trying to tell us something of importance for our life. If we understand the
message we have a chance to solve some of our life problems. Symbols are the alphabet of our consciousness from where they come through
our dreams. The most important aspect about dream interpretation is that only you can judge what they mean through your personal
associations with common symbols.
That is why it is important to understand our dreams and to decode them;
How to do that?
Before going to bed think that you wish to remember your dreams. A meditation before sleep can help relax the mind. Place a pencil
and paper next to the bed. If you wake up during the night, write down what you have dreamt about. In the morning write down your
dream story reading from your night notes. Try to put the dream into memory. Write about the feeling, or mood, that was associated with
it. Try to think of a title for the dream, just as if it was a movie or your personal article. Keeping a kind of dream journal for a
length of time is essential, because the repeating patterns of dreams tells us much over time. Another technique is to play self talk
game.
Try this method using the same way like chess enthusiasts do playing the game with self. You can put different questions being one who
puts them and one who answers.
Symbol that repeats deserves a special attention. Try to enter this symbol being itself and using the self-talk game in order to
understand its message.
Advice: It is recommended to keep notes about during all these "talks" in order to compare development in your understanding. Sometimes
only after few times you could feel that you have finely understood the message.
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