Receiving An Interpretation That Doesn't Resonate

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

WOLFIE :

Well short term and long term memory blocks are different. Animals that can instantly reform their memories need extremely large brains. Humans do have short term memory blocks. Then during the night we work through these memories and thoroughly integrate them.

We can make slight adjustements to our thinking. But these do not truly come into effect until we have slept. Thats why we often manage to perform new tasks after we have slept.

Instead our brains just store raw data in short term memory and then work through it at night. We discard irrelevant information and then concentrate on the important things

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Many dreams can capture very immediate emotions. If you are feeling

despreate when you wake up and you need to immediately go to the toilet

then its likely that the dream links to that immediate urge. The dream

will in some way capture the urgency and immediate nature of your

situation. The dream mind will not be able to concentrate on anything

else. Its simply caught up in the moment. The following page details

several such dreams.

Dream interpreting - noises,pains and other external causes of dreams

Also try this page as it explores dream symbolism in great depth. Mnay

symbols can have several meanings and each are covered with practical

examples. Try looking at the key words and phrases as they show the

sorts of words to look for in your own emotions.

A dream dictionary that explores the variety of meanings in a dream symbol

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a computer program which searches out dream symbols.

[paisley]

." Have you ever had a dream interpretated where someone offers a well-thought out and totally logical explanation about it, but their conclusions simply don't feel right?"

I have, but I always thank the person for their thoughts since they did take the time to read and analyze the dream. I think with anything in life we can not just accept everything we read as fact. We have to be judicious and use our heads.

"4. I guess what I'm getting at, should an accurate interpretation sort of slide in place and should the dreamer get a sense of satisfaction from it? "

I am no expert on dreams but from my limited experience, I think when we receive an accurate interpretation we feel it and know it. With my first dreams that were interpreted, I had absolutely NO understanding of dreams or dream language but when I received an accurate interpretation, my dreams actually made sense.

"7. Have you gottten interpretations that felt totally wrong, yet turned out to be accurate anyway"

Never

[JON]

Dreams are, for each of us, a very personal experience. And others, when reading about them, bring their own life experiences to bear when interpreting them. So there is no really ‘definitive meaning’ to a dream, or ’right’ or ’wrong’ interpretation. Just different viewpoints and ideas. Which, to the dreamer, might ’not quite fit’ their own reading. It's a bit like studying History or English Literature at Uni.

Best Wishes, Jon.

[North Star]

It is interesting to read the various philosphies held about dreams. Personally, I think 99.9% of dreams originate as SirBobby described, " We store up memories in short term memory blocks. Its only at night that we start to work through what has just happened the previous day. We reform our emotions and transfer the important bits iof information into long term memory."

Still, I do believe that God speaks to us through dreams--not frequently, but not as infrequently as many of us think. Modern people tend to dismiss this phenomenon all too readily.

Now, I am fully aware that the bible doesn't serve as proof to non-Christians here. For those of us who consider themselves such, I think that the bible indicates that dreams are sometimes more than our brains sifting through and filing data. God said that he would send our sons and daughters prophetic dreams. He would give others the gift of interpreting them. Think of the Old Testament Joseph in prison, interpreting the other prisoners' dreams having to to with the future and the Pharoah's too. The Pharoah's, recall, did not happen immediately, but played out over a 14 year period.

Then, think of the dream of Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was given instructions from God in three different dreams. The first one explained to him that Mary was carrying the Son of God and that he should not be afraid to take her as his wife. The second one was to flee from Egypt with baby Jesus and Mary. The third one was to return his family to Israel. Even though our lives cannot compare to St. Joseph's, personally, I believe that God speaks to all of us in this way at certain times of our lives. Most of us, however, do not have the clarity of spirit and the faith of St. Joseph, so we do not benefit as greatly as did he.

Anyway, I'm off topic. My original post was spawned from a dream that I thought might be a message. I had my own ideas about what it meant, but someone else offered an interpretation that I really didn't see coming and it struck a chord. So, I've been wondering if "feelings" about an interpretation mattered in the end. Paisly's experiences seems to indicate that feelings do matter.

I liked Jon's analogy: "Just different viewpoints and ideas. Which, to the dreamer, might ’not quite fit’ their own reading. It's a bit like studying History or English Literature at Uni."

A thank you to all who've responded.

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

YES I totally agree that dreams can link to higher planes. My explanation only seeks to explain the vast proportion of dreams. I came to dream interpreting through pyschic and precognitive dreams. I had a dream about someone and had terribnle feelings of forboding. That person died that day

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The dream mind is a conceptual mind. So expect the meaning of a dream to be a conceptual meaning. Try to think about the ideas and emotions that are forming in your mind. Dreams can be about health issues, they can be about relationships, they can simply reflect some paranoias in your mind. Simply put dreams are about the STUFF in your mind. So instead of trying to interpret the dream try to think about ideas forming in your mind.

Whats more dreams concentrate on new feelings. They capture those moments when your feelings change. For instance the moment when you started to mistrust your boyfriend. Try this page as it shows you how to spot the issues which trigger dreams

Dream symbolism - How to use dream symbols

Learn how to capture in quotes the concepts and ideas that will be the subject of your dreams

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[Jennings]

Seven questions with seven answers which all say 'yes'! Much depends on what information is given about the dreamscape and what detail the dreamer omitted for whatever reason, more frequently determines the dream's outcome. Again, different readers interpret differently so it is not a precise subject but more of an art. Some dreams are self-evident while others are allegorical and those latter ones are more difficult to analyse. Does this answer your query? Contrary to some cherished views there is no magic involved in dream interpretation. They are like biblical paraboles that contain wider meaning.