Dream Weaving – Discovering the keys to your Dreams

Step into your world of dreams and discover the hidden secrets that lie within your soul. Understanding your dreams will help you unlock the mysteries that await you each night you go to sleep. Your dreams offer you a chance to discover the issues that affect and influence your waking life.

In your dreams you can be anything, do anything and go anywhere. Dreams are a way of expressing yourself without the constraints of worrying about what others will think of you. When you dream, you have the chance to journey into your soul and listen to what your sleeping self is trying to tell you. Many people claim that they cannot remember their dreams, or more so, that they don’t dream. Everybody dreams! Listed below is a tip to help you recall what your nightly trips are telling you.

Over the next couple of months, Inpsyche will be bringing you more information on how to understand your dreams and how to interpret your dream symbols.

     

Inpsyche Tip: Remembering your dreams is not hard, all it takes is a few steps to ensure that when you wake up you will be able to remember what happened in your sleep. Each night before you go to bed, tell yourself you are going to remember your dreams. Say this to yourself each night for a week. Don’t worry if you still wake up and don’t remember your dreams. Try and keep a notebook and pen next to your bed and when you do wake, write down anything that you can recall. - a word, a phrase, a scene, a colour.

      

COMMON DREAMS

FLYING

Dreaming about flying represents a feeling of freedom and rising above obstacles. Flying can give you a renewed feeling of energy and suggests you are moving forward and taking charge of something in your life. Have there been problems you have been experiencing making you feel you cannot rise above them. When you fly in your dreams, your soul is telling you have the ability to soar over your problems – maybe you have to fly above to gain a different perspective. If you are having difficulty flying and cannot get off the ground, what are you trying to overcome in you life that is creating stress within you.

FALLING

Studies have revealed that the common theme of falling usually happens in the first REM sleep stage (you can go through anywhere from four to seven REM periods of sleep per night). The reason is attributed to your mind and soul wanting to tackle certain problems that have been troubling you in your waking life and it is during your first dream cycle that your mind will try to find a solution. Falling in your dream represents something out of control in your life. What has been causing your stress and anxiety lately? Are you worrying too much about something, do you feel you are failing? Do you need to let go of something and fall down before you can get up again and move forward. Contrary to popular myth, you will not die if you hit the ground in your dream and not wake up before impact.

TEETH

There are many different explanations for dreams associated with teeth. Your teeth guard your voice box, where all your communication stems from. The teeth are a barrier, a wall surrounding your voice. If your teeth are falling out, it means that you are no longer concerned about what you are saying. If you are a person that worries too much about what other people think and edit your thoughts, opinions, conversations to suit others, dreaming of teeth is a liberating symbol. It is a sign that you are willing to let go of old ideals and negative thought patterns and are ready to say your mind. Dreaming of having no teeth, or losing all your teeth, can represent a time in your life when you might be feeling very vulnerable, and unable to articulate to others what you want. New teeth are a great sign that you are working on exciting ideas and are focused on communicating them to world.

WATER

Water is another common theme for many dreamers. Water in our dreams is a direct symbol for our emotions and state of being. The fluid nature of water represents our heart’s desires, our feelings, our sensitive spirit. If you are swimming in water, is the environment calm or choppy? Are you having difficultly swimming or are you gliding effortlessly through the water. When you dream of water, look at the other factors associated with it. Standing on the beach and looking at a peaceful sea can represent the unlimited potential of your feelings for someone or a new project that you have been planning to undertake. A wild and rough raging river you are stuck in is telling you that you are moving in circles in your waking life that are not harmonious, you are not receiving any emotional support from those around you.

CHASE

Are you the one being chased, or is someone chasing you? What are you trying to catch, or whom are you trying to get away from. Being chased denotes a time in your life when you feel you cannot keep up with everything around you and need to flee. Pressures build up in your life and you need to get away from them, but they keep coming after you. Running after someone or something is telling you that you need to look at what you are pursuing and is it possible to reach. Maybe you have set your goals too high and feel you are not reaching them. Are they just too far out of reach. Did you catch the person or thing you were chasing and did they live up to your expectations. How did you feel when you caught your prey, were you satisfied or disappointed?

COLOURS IN DREAMS

BLACK – Mysterious forces, the unknown, anticipation, danger, fate. Can be a colour of anxiety and some stress happening in your life. If the dream was a happy one, black can also represent divine forces working in harmony around you, waiting for the right time to take reveal themself.

BLUE – The presence of this colour in your dream can represent a spiritual guide entering your life. Truth, wisdom, devotion and openness are also meanings associated with this colour. On the flip side, you could be having a “blue day” or feeling sad.

BROWN – This colour is linked to the earth and practical matters. Domestic and material matters need to be looked at. Other meanings can denote too much stability and routine which could be locking you into a rut. Does everything seem dull to you, the appearance of this colour is telling you to make a change.

GOLD – The appearance of this colour signifies rich rewards coming your way. They could be of the material nature or the spiritual nature. Either way you are being told to value what you receive and trust in the eternal flow of riches that continue to enter your life.

GRAY - Not feeling very inspired right now. The colour of gray is a wake up call. You need to get motivated and find the source of real passion in your life. What is giving you anxiety right now? If you have been feeling depressed lately, you are being told that you need to get up and get moving.

GREEN – A wonderful sign that new beginnings are just around the corner. Green signifies hope, growth, vitality, positive changes and healing. This is a great time to start a new project for the landscape is ripe with possibilities. Can also mean that there is jealousy around you – “green with envy.”

ORANGE – Orange signifies you are trying to express your true nature and expand your horizons. Have you felt “caged in” lately? Now is the time to look at new hobbies, new interests and you will find many people will be drawn to the friendly and social nature you are revealing.

PINK – Love, joy and happiness are associated with this colour. Your affections and emotions are being affected and you are happy to express them. Deep pleasure and kindness are qualities you want to express to others. Being in love and sharing your heart with others.

PURPLE – This is a very spiritual colour. Divine forces, psychic abilities and intuitive feelings are associated with purple. Devotion and loyalty to a person or something of great importance to the dreamer. Sensitivity and psychic forces at work to assist you in making decisions. Hidden secrets and feelings coming to the surface.

RED – Raw passion and energy are typical of the colour red. Red can also an aggressive force, personal power trying to escape, intensity and drive. Sexuality is also associated with this colour.

SILVER – This is a colour of protection and divine essence. Silver represents purity and protection by your spiritual guardians.

YELLOW – Mental stimulation and learning is denoted by the colour yellow. Are you thinking of taking up some new studies, educating yourself. Yellow is optimisim for a brighter future and the willingness to head down a new path. Your mind is ready for a new challenge and you have the intellect and resources at hand to begin.