One of my favorite things to do in the summer is to get out and talk to dreamers about their dream life. In hearing all those dream stories, I’ve discovered answers to questions I’ve asked my entire life. One of those answers brings clarity to a question nearly every dreamer has asked themselves. Are my dreams personal?
Dreams are very personal. Most dreams are about the dreamer. This is why dreamers often find themselves driving their own car, working a past job, and interacting with family members in a familiar house. Dreams may also include family jewelry and other personal items in order to make an emotional connection, which personalizes the dream’s message even more.
A Mysterious Yet Familiar Language
Dreamers often see things from their everyday life. Yet these familiar objects don’t always make sense because they behave and appear differently than expected.
Dreams may be filled with mysterious symbols, but there’s something about those symbols that also seems familiar. Dreams are often filled with everyday objects from waking life, but the dream’s message isn’t always as straight forward as it seems. Truth is, a dream’s message often gets lost within familiarity. When an old friend appears within a dream, it’s easy to assume it’s connected to your waking life. You get out of bed expecting a waking life encounter with that friend and it doesn’t immediately happen. Days go by without seeing that friend, so you decide to call them. Turns out they’re out of the country. What happened?
The short answer is that you’re thinking about your dream the same way you think about your waking life. Your dream spoke to you in the language of metaphor and you heard the language of the literal. It’ll be much more helpful if you look at your dream language as code. The images you see within your dreams are coded messages that need to be converted into words.
It’s not always easy to change how you look at your own dreams. One of the most common mistakes dreamers make it to get caught up in the familiar imagery of the dream which results in their inability to see the big picture of the dream. Objectivity is a major key to clearing up the confusion. How exactly does a dreamer gain objectivity when they’re overly familiar with what they’ve seen and experienced within a dream?
There are a couple of ways you can do this. First, write down the details of your dream and tuck it away somewhere where you won’t see it for a week or so. Then, when you take it out to look at it again, give it to someone else and have them read you the dream as if they’re the dreamer. You do this so you spend enough time away from the dream that you forget some of the details. You may even forget the entire dream. This will help you from assigning familiar meanings to some symbols and not others. This often indicates you’ve made some assumptions about what the familiar symbols in your dream means.
I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about hearing your dream being spoken out loud by another person. You begin to notice things you wouldn’t ordinarily notice. When you write out your dreams immediately after waking up you’ll use specific words to describe what and how things happened in your dream. Certain words will inevitably stand out to you as you hear your dream read back. These are clues to meaning.
Dreams become personal when they incorporate different aspects of your waking life into the story line. Your dream id this for the purpose of capturing your attention. This is just one of the reasons why dreams speak to dreamers in familiar, everyday objects borrowed from their waking life.
A Revealing Invitation
Dreams are invitations to pursuit that reveals something about the dreamer.
Almost every dreamer I’ve talked to about their dreams has been a bit set back when I asked them if they considered their dreams as invitations. It was obvious the thought hadn’t ever crossed their minds.
The invitation a dream sets forth can be an invitation to a conversation where the dream’s message can be further discovered. It can also be an invitation to discover what you did not know about yourself or someone else. Then there’s the invitation to pursue. When a dream extends an invitation to pursue, it’s often inviting the dreamer to pursue deeper meaning. Just as the symbols of a dream communicate meaning beyond what is initially perceived, dreams often carry multiple layers of meaning that can get really personal really fast.
Many times I’d be interpreting a dream for someone at a Con who’d be in the company of several friends. Sometimes these friends move on to do something else while I’m speaking to the dreamer. Other times the friends hang around and listen in. I remember multiple occasions when the dreamer’s friends were right next to them and I realized the dream was revealing some deeply personal things. Unsure of the dynamics of their relationships, I’d give the fair warning before I went any further. At times the dreamer wouldn’t mind, but other times they asked their friends to go do something else while I told them the personal details the dream revealed.
Dreamers aren’t always with others when their dreams reveal deeply personal things. I remember an encounter with a dreamer at a coffee shop. This person told me several dreams they had and I was able to quickly decipher the meanings. There was this one dream, however, that did not readily give up its meaning. The dreamer had a commitment somewhere else and had to go, but before they left we exchanged email addresses.
I emailed some questions I had about the dream and the dreamer got back with me fairly quickly with the answers. From every indication I saw, the dreamer really wanted to know what this elusive dream had to tell them. I worked and worked at getting the dream to reveal the meaning it was hiding. Once I was able to get the dream to give up it’s mysterious meaning, it was obvious why the meaning was buried so deeply. The dream showed how the dreamer’s father rejected them when they needed him the most. The dream then extended the invitation for her to forgive him.
After communicating the exact meaning the dream was saying, I expected the dreamer to have a question or two. I even half expected them to ask me how I knew that’s what the dream was saying, as dreamers often do. As it turned out, she didn’t have any questions. In fact, I never heard from her again. It was clear she wasn’t ready to address this very personal rejection. I learned something that day that I never forgot. A dream may extend a personal invitation to the dreamer, but it’s up to the dreamer to respond.
Personal Past Dream Experiences
Think back to the last time you had a dream where you were in a house you lived in as a child. Perhaps you were interacting with your family, some of whom are deceased. You may have seen a vehicle your parents drove around back then. One you haven’t thought of in decades. Your dream blended people, places and things from your past in order to create an environment that connects to you in a personal way. This personal connection brings up all kinds of emotions. Some are good. Some are bad.
The purpose of this is to highlight circumstances from your past that need to be dealt with. This is what was happening to the dreamer in the last section. She needed to deal with the rejection of her father but refused to.
But dreams aren’t always trying to point out things like this. I’ve met dreamers who had a dream they were interacting with a sister who passed away decades before. In the dream the dreamer and her sister were seated at a dining room table in the house she was living in at the time of her death. When the dreamer woke up she was feeling loved and encouraged by the interaction that could have never happened otherwise.
Your dreams are able to harness various experiences that are personal to you, even the ones you may have forgotten about. Yet, your dreams highlight personal past experiences for a reason. There’s a lot more going on here than your subconscious taking you down memory lane. In the ancient world it was widely known across the board that dreams were nothing less than communication with the divine.
Personal Present Dream Experiences
I rarely dream of the place where I’m currently living. I don’t remember any dreams with my current vehicle, my current workplace. I’ve dreamed of the condo I’m currently living in a whopping four times in seven years. This does not mean, however, that my dreams are not speaking to me about my current life situation. The very nature of dreams suggest dreams are not confined by any known limits. The very fact that I’m able to write anything at all about how dreams utilize things from the past and things from the future are just one example of how dreams are not limited by time. In fact, they’re more like a time machine than a visit to a favorite photo album. Dreams employ so many different methods of addressing a dreamer’s current situation in life that it’s nearly impossible to keep track of.
One of the most common examples that immediately comes to mind are dreams that end abruptly in the middle of an action. We’ve all had dreams like this. We’re in the middle of some kind of action. You’re running, you’re driving, you’re about to make a discovery of some importance before the dream ends. Dreamers often feel cheated, let down, even ripped off after a dream like that. It leaves most dreamers asking the question what’s going on?
What’s going on is the dream’s telling you you’re in the middle of the action. That seems obvious because your dream stopped right in the middle of the things. But when you look at your dream as a whole and begin extracting meaning from it, it’s then you realize you’re right in the middle of the situation. The dream ended right then to emphasize you have yet to experience the outcome.
Personal Dream Future Experiences
Your dream’s personal experience isn’t limited to your past or your present. many precognition and prophetic dream experiences include details of your personal life. Before I get too far into this, I’ve got to include this caveat. Not every precognition or prophetic dream will be about you. Many times, these types of dreams will be about others. Remember the dream realm is unlimited in nature.
When these future dreams are about you, they will often include your personal details like other dreams.
I had a dream awhile back that I’d categorized as a prophetic dream. I was the only one in the dream, walking through a mobile home collecting things. I picked up my leather satchel, which contains my writing and a few other things. Then I started picking up purses to take with me when I left. One of the purses belonged to my mom. This item is personal to me because it seems as if my mom’s always telling me that she’s looking for her purse in her dreams. When I interpret those dreams for her I’m returning her purse, in a sense, by telling her what her dream means and how to get her purse back.
This dream included a title wave and puddles of water. My dream was a prophetic calling dream.
Reading this blog in its entirety, you now know that dreams are personal, and have seen just how personal they can be. The question you asked to get you to this blog may seem basic, but believe me, millions of people need the answer you’ve received. Consider sharing this blog on your social media outlets so we can get this secret out.
CJ