Your dreams are unique, and a “dictionary translation” approach to understanding your dreams may be a starting point. However, the “easy” way will prove ineffective in the long run.
Using a “dream dictionary” is like looking at a map.
You may see the roads, even the streets represented on the map. But the map is not the street.
The map cannot show you if you are in the elegant part of town, or if you are in the slums.
The map cannot share the richness of landscaping, the practical design of a working class neighborhood, or the squallor, depression and poverty of the slums.
To study your dreams, you have to use your own dreams as your “mentor.”
Your dreams will teach you, but they will not provide instant insights into their complexity.
Your dreams are like a tapestry.
You might see individual threads, or you might see the big-picture design. However, over time, you will discover the ideas that the creator of the tapestry wanted to communicate.
Dream study is an Interesting theory, but are there any practical benefits?
And, Is any emperical evidence or objective research available to support the eficacy or reliability of dream study?
The issue is that individuals are unique, and dream study uncovers creative and intuitive aspects of that uniqueness
You are not like anyone else, and your dreams show you, firsthand, just how unique you are.
Other people’s ideas only provide a sounding board, a mirror, a finger on the pulse of your dreams’ meanings.
Expect that your personal glossary and dictionary of dreams…your personal definitions, your code-breakers’ book will be different than any one elses.
Your dream interpretation book will not be like anyone else’s book. Your dream symbols, translations and interpretations will not be word-for-word like any other person’s.
Instead, your dreams are always tailor-made, unique and creative.
So, always give yourself permission to be creative, unique and intuitive in your dream study.
