Sophisticated, Simple, Wild and Weird

The thought often goes through my mind that our dreams during the night are the most helpful resources available to us as well as being fascinating and fun.

Our problems don't get the honor they deserve, but they are only the first step. The next step is the reflection as to possible alternative ways of attending to the problems and it is here that I find dreams so crucial, so great, so fun.

They pick up and present inspiration, visions of the promised land; provide communication with others beyond space and time; provide medical diagnoses; and are witty, fun, sarcastic, loving, faithful, intelligent and indescribable.

Here are a few general rules of dream interpretative that have been useful to me. There are many such rules and many books on them, but these are simply those that I have found most useful.

• A dream that you see repeatedly indicates that there is something particularly essential for you to understand, something that will be particularly liberating for you if you can understand it.

• There are some dreams, particularly if remembered from early childhood, that are far more important to understand than others.

• Sometimes you will have a series of dreams that is trying, from different points of view, using different perspectives and imagery, to allow you to appreciate one particular problem.

• Almost everything a dream tells you can help you uncover and integrate bits of your identity.

• Even the smallest details or fragments of a dream can provide more insight and delight than you normally would expect.

• Your dreams, as the subconscious in general, have a much better understanding of time and space than you normally have.

• Your dreams quickly pick up whether you are respectful of them or not, and yield their bounty accordingly.

• Dreams do not obey rules!

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