I’m a collector of dreams. No matter where I go I find someway to talk to dreamers about what they dream. I encounter some dreamers who don’t remember what they dream, others who have a vague memory of a recent dream, while others seem to have questions burning the tip of their tongues – Aren’t dreams just dreams? Do dreams actually have any meaning?
Dreams do have meaning. Some dreams have a more profound meaning than others, but all dreams mean something. A dream’s meaning can often be found within they symbols it uses to communicate with the dreamer. That communication can, and often does, correlate to the dreamer’s walking life by answering a question they’ve been asking or providing a solution to their current life situation.
How Can Dreams Mean Anything When They Seem So Pointless and Random?
Every dreamer has awakened from dreams that resent such strange and bizarre circumstances they don’t have a chance of ever happening. It’s easy to wake up from one of these dreams and dismiss them. The path of least resistance is the most direct path to a dead end. That is to say, If you dismiss a dream, you’ll never be able to understand it.
But how could such a meaningless experience mean anything when it seemed so pointless and random? The ancients understood many things about dreams that has been lost in today’s modern world. One of these things is a dream is never just a dream. They conceal messages, that when understood, have the ability to provide answers the dreamer could know no other way.
Many of these ancient dreams were kings and rulers of such places as Mesopotamia, Ancient Syria, and Egypt. That’s right, the pharaoh’s of ancient Egypt looked to their dreams to provide wisdom and guidance and how they ruled the land. Remember all those pyramids we marvel at today? What if the great pyramids of Egypt were the result of dreams instead of extra terrestrials like so many believe today. I’m not saying they are, but the pharaoh’s had a habit of consulting a dream book and they kept astrologers and the workers of magic arts at arms length to help them understand what they dreamed.
For a time Egypt was the most powerful country in the ancient world. Pharaohs used every tool at their disposal to them in order to keep Egypt in such a position, including dreams. Did the dreams of those pharaohs appear any less nonsensical and confusing? Nope. Those two characteristics are built-in to the very fabric of dreams. How then, did the ancients understand their dreams?
Their understanding of dreams can become the ancients know they couldn’t try to understand their dreams using their logical mind. The logic they used to navigate their daily life was useless to understand dreams, so they used a different kind of logic, dream logic. This applies to you, dear dreamer. If you can align your thinking with the same logic your dream is using. The confusion vanishes and your dream will surrender its meaning. I know this may sound like an impossible fact, but with a bit of practice you’ll be able to see the dream you were sure was meaningless give up meaning.
Can Dreams Really Be Interpreted?
If dreams are not just dreams and they have meaning, does that mean they can be interpreted? Before I answer that question I want to ensure we’re all on the same page when it came to meaning and interpretation.
To understand a dream has meaning simply means the dream is communicating something to the dreamer and is not just filled with random images and situations that don’t mean anything. To say a dream can be interpreted simply means the dream is communicating can be understood. It’s assigning meaning to the situations and symbols presented within the dream that brings out the overall meaning of the dream.
That being understood, it’s not only possible to interpret a dream, but I interpret them all the time.
Once a week for over four years I lead a group of dreamers in a journey of discovery. The goal was to interpret as many dreams on any given night as was possible. Most weeks that journey would take us all into the small hours of Friday morning. It wasn’t unusual to interpret five to ten dreams on those nights. Some were short, most were medium to long.
I only had a part in interpreting all those dreams, well over a thousand dreams no matter how you calculate it. I then interpreted as many dreams on my own as I ventured into the crowds of Comicon and lesser known cons for as many years.
My point in telling you this is to say all those interpreted dreams were not a fluke. An interpretation was sought out and an interpretation was found. So, yes, I know for a fact that dreams can be interpreted.
Do Dreams Really Matter Tho?
Many dreamers I interpret dreams for had this question. They most want to know how the dreamer I just interpreted for them applied to their life. What real difference could it make in their day to day?
That’s a fair question. I mean if dreams are not just dreams and they have meaning and can be interpreted, they certainly must have an affect on how the dreamer lives their life. They do. Dreams have more of an effect on the life of the dreamer than most realize.
To demonstrate an example of this I don’t have to go any farther tan my own dreams. I had a series of 747 dreams that caught my attention about eight years back,. I love jumbo jets and had the privilege of flying overseas on them many times. The dreams caught my attention because I was doing what I loved in them. Through a series of circumstances that I explain in the opening chapter of my book Dreams Unveiled, these dreams opened the door for me to find my passion for dreams. So yeah, I’d say they matter.
Another example, removed from me by many thousands of years, was one night of dreams that saved an entire nation from starvation.
The ancient book of Genesis recounts a situation in which Pharaoh had a set of dreams in one night. In the first dream Pharaoh was standing by the Nile river when seven cows fat and sleek came out of the river and grazed among the reeds. Afterward seven cows, ugly and gaunt, came out of the Nile and stood by the sleek , fat cows. The skinny cows ate up the fat cows.
In the second of Pharaoh’s dreams, he saw sever healthy heads of grain growing on a single stalk. He then saw seven other heads of grain sprout and they were thin and scorched the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up the health heads of grain.
He woke up.
It’s just like a dream to present such bizarre and confusing images as gaunt cows eating up healthy cows and thin heads of grain swallowing up healthy heads of grain. When I’m from we call that cannibalism!
But these dreams are not about cannibalism at all. These confusing images can be understood by simply understanding that to the ancient Egyptians cows and heads of grain mean food. The images of a lean cow devouring a fat cow and lean head of grain devouring a healthy full head of grain suggest famine.
If Pharaoh thought of this experience as just a dream the country of Egypt along with all the surrounding countries would have been decimated by famine. The interpretation of this dream meant saving the lives of an entire region of the world.
As you can see dreams are not just dreams. I’m not saying this to tell you that every dream you have will reveal your passion or save lives from starvation. I’m telling you this so you can begin to pay attention to your dreams and discover what treasure they hold for you.
CJ