The Dream Thread

[OpalE]

How do we interpret our dreams and get the message they're sending ? Some years ago i regularly took note of my dreams but lost this ability and it's  only recently that i'm able to remember again my dreams. Being able to understand the message is something i never got. My dreams usually feel very silly. For exemple a few years ago i had often a kind of dream where i'm in a HIFI music system store and i'm looking with interest at the various equipment but i never buy it. That's a little odd, and i had the same kind of dream recently and i wonder if it has a special meaning.

If think there can be differents types of dreams which have differents functions. Some may or may not be meant to be interpreted but i've the feeling that most of the one i remember are trying to tell me something about myself but i can't make sense of it. Like if it was in an unknown langage.

Ugh. I know something that might help, but I've not tried to talk about it. Here's my best shot:

It IS another language, but it's not exactly unknown.

I've spent over 2 decades in study and practice of divination (esp. Tarot).

I did the dream-journal thing, and quickly learned that if i write down ANYTHING i can remember (or even kind of remember) EVERY time i wake, i'll be remembering my dreams in full and nightly within about 2 weeks (but i have to keep writing them or it eventually fades). After two years solid of doing this, something **clicked**, and i realized that dreams spoke in almost the exact same "language" as the Tarot did.

Treating your dreams as the "voice" a self-aware being helps (know that the being is you, but treat it and acknowledge it as its own independent and complete being with its own existence ... but also know that you and that being have to get along because you "share the same fate").

I don't know if it actually did or not, but reading Jung seemed to help, also (Man and His Symbols and Dreams in particular).

that's all i got. Hope it helps!