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Do you often find yourself posting on forums or searching Google for what a symbol from your dream means? Have you been thinking about setting up as someone who interprets dreams for others?
If you’ve answered yes to either of these questions, then my upcoming course Mastering Dream Interpretation: Confidently Navigate and Understand Your Own and Others’ Dreams is well worth considering. Please sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of this page, and tick the ‘Yes, Tell Me More!’ checkbox, so I can let you know when it’s live.
But couldn’t you just keep asking the forums or searching the web? Or why not buy a decent dream dictionary? Well, you could but I bet that if you ask 10 Reddit users, look on 10 websites and buy 10 dream dictionaries, you will find at least a handful of conflicting interpretations for each symbol. This is because every dream symbol is unique to the dreamer, and though generic meanings can be useful, these will vary depending on the source and the belief system of those providing the meanings. Unfortunately, the result for you is confusion and uncertainty.
There is another problem with asking other people to interpret your dreams. You are psychologically wired to accept those meanings that make you feel comfortable about yourself (and if you interpret for someone else, that applies to them to). This function of dreams was well-known to Freud, and is why people paid a lot of good money to psychoanalysts to get behind the mask.
By accepting the meaning that seems most ‘logical’ you are helping your ego to deceive itself, and effectively blocking of the deep and transformative insights that a true interpretation would reveal.
Even if you could get to an authentic interpretation of the symbols that appear in your dreams, these are merely words of the message the Dream Source is trying to deliver to you. It would be like arriving in a foreign country and trying to understand a station announcement by translating the words for ticket, train and destination.
I will be breaking down the 13 modules of my course in a future blog post, but for now, please add your name and email to the form below – and don’t forget to tick the checkbox, so that I know you are interested in the course!