Understanding
the meaning of dreams is useful for self-knowledge and personal
growth
Dreams:
Magic Windows to the Soul
by Joan
Candaza
Dream
Interpretation in a World Not Fully Awake
We can't deny
the fact: we spend about one-third of our lives sleeping. No matter
how busy we say we are and no matter how we would like to extend the
24 hours in the clock just for us to finish everything--we still,
and we just have to succumb to sleep. Obviously, our body and mind
need to rest. And after a hard day's work, we owe ourselves just
that.
Of course, we
know that we don't just let ourselves fall dead-asleep every night.
We dream. Our minds are at their most awake and freest when we are
dreaming, and we dream for the best of reasons.
Oneirology,
the science that investigates the very subjective and flimsy realm
of dreams considers dreams generally in three ways: Physiologically,
they are responses to neural processes while we are asleep;
psychologically, they are projections of our Unconscious; and
spiritually, as believed in olden times and up to now, dreams are
messages from God or predictions of the future.
Or if we want
a simpler explanation of dreams, the Charaka Samhita of India says
dreams are "what we have seen, heard, experienced, wish to
experience, forced to experience, imagined, and by the inherent
nature of the body".
It has been
said that much of what we experience as déjà vu is simply our minds
recalling something we have dreamed before. Perhaps, more
importantly than remembering, dreams are what we want to happen. Or
dreams are what we would carry out in real life if we were only
braver, less shy.
This is,
basically, the finding of psychologist Joe Griffin, who for 12 years
intensively researched and studied scientific evidences on the topic
of dreams. His unified theory of dreams explains that dreams are
metaphorical translations of what we expect during our waking state.
Our expectations and desires, of course, are not always met in the
real world (either because of circumstances beyond our control or
because our ego prohibits it (that is, we are too shy or too scared
to act upon them).
Whatever it
is, our brain has to finish the cycle of arousal triggered by those
expectations. These frustrated expectations are thus carried over to
our dreaming world. Dreams then, needless to say, reveal a lot about
the dreamer. Dreams are the portals into our Unconscious. Indeed, we
are such stuff as dreams are made of. And considering that our
dreams are almost always metaphorical in content, we can rightfully
say that we are poets in our dreams.
But unlike
real poets with pen, we don't usually know the meaning behind our
own metaphors. For this, humanity is deeply indebted to psychics and
dream interpreters. In a world that becomes increasingly jaded when
it comes to spiritual matters, psychics and oneiromancers unlock
those metaphors. By helping us understand our dreams, they coax us
back into life from a state of "wandering death." Consider Joseph,
the most famous dream interpreter in the Bible. He advised the
Pharaoh on political issues based on his dreams, which inevitably
helped him rule his people wisely.
We need that
too. Now more than ever we need to take charge of ourselves, and
only through acknowledging what we really want in life can we do
that. We need to look deep into ourselves and stare at our dreams in
the eye. If we have to ask for help from others, from the gifted
people who can guide us in the dreamworld, from the psychics who
make plain for us what we embellish in our dreams, then let's ask
for help. The important thing is we are now aware. And we will no
longer be dead-asleep.
About the
author: "Joan Candaza is the SEO Specialist for Universal Psychic
Guild. Her passion for astrology gave her the inspiration to create
psychic related articles. Psychic Guild provides accurate psychic
readings by the Guild's phone psychics. For more information, visit
http://www.psychicguild.com "
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