Interpreting Dreams

Dreams are a really common and effective way for the spirit to communicate, especially with non-initiates or the particularly hard headed (cough me cough), but figuring out what the hell they mean is not a trivial task.

In some ways, I know who I’m intended to help by how easy I find their dreams to interpret. The spirit appears to often speak in images, symbols, and associations—I suspect it’s because we tend to clutter communication with our assumptions and hangups. It’s amazing what we can do with the air and vibrations that make up a word (and specifically how we can easily distort it). The conscious mind, really the mind and ego, are particularly likely to take communication and try to twist it into some familiar form laden with familiar emotions. Symbols, images and the like force us to embrace ambiguity, by which a little clarity can slip into our lives.

It might be one of my favorite parts of doing spiritual work: I love to see how the spirit speaks to people. I love playing detective in the language they use to speak with us, and I often learn a lot about the person in the process. The spirit is excellent at communicating with people how they need to be communicated with, and as a result, I can get clues which let me communicate with the person better.

I can’t say that there’s really any official primer I could write on the process, other than to say that it’s extremely associative: a symbol means one thing in a context, and another in a different context, and it takes a bit of spiritual insight to be able to figure out which meaning applies.