Learning the Meaning of Dreams
Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
by Jim Eastman
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People search every day to find ways to improve their lives. However, the answers are not always found easily - yet we sometimes find the answers right in front of us. In many cases, educating ourselves is all it takes to lead us to discoveries about ourselves that we can use to improve our lives. And, even when we are happy with our lives - there is always room for improvement in everything we do. It is possible to improve your life using the meaning of dreams.
That's where dreaming can help you. When you sleep - when your body and conscious mind recuperate from the rigors of the day - your brain is busy processing this data and sorting it in an attempt to dispose of the information stored in your subconscious. But, how could this help us to improve our lives?
You might believe that dreams are just something that happens - that you have no control over the things that occur in your sleep. But there are two kinds of dreams - natural and intentional. And once you understand the meaning of dreams, you you are allowing yourself a means of improving your life.
Natural dreams occur with no conscious thought on our part - just as the tides go in and out each day. Most people don't consciously think about the tides, yet the tides play an important role in the cycle of the universe. Learning to interpret our natural dreams can help us to improve our lives. We learn to analyze our deepest feelings and desires.
However, the effect of natural dreams can be taken one step forward. Intentional dreams can enhance our dream experience and guide us to focus on changes that can improve our lives. An intentional dream is happens when you focus your mind and heart on a certain area of your life and generate dreams that can help you make improvements in these areas.
Different from composing your dreams, intentional dreams only give you a focus for your dreams, a stage so to speak. Just as you would direct a child towards a certain goal, then step back and grant the child the freedom to reach the goal by him or herself. You are not controlling your dreams, you are focusing your dreams to areas in your life that you would like to change.
Once you have focused on this specific area, it is important to remember the events or people of the dream and learn the meaning behind the details. Often, we will get an a real understanding of our true feelings and desires. The process of intentional dreaming can help us to solve many specific dilemmas in our lives, as well as giving us insight into psychological, personal, and even spiritual questions that we are pondering.
If we learn to interpret and analyze these dreams, we learn more about ourselves. However, bear in mind that everything we learn may not be pleasant. Suppose for a moment that you have been involved in a dispute with a close relative for years. When you take a deeper look at your role in the dispute may lay bare your bad actions and can even shed light on how you can make amends and resolve the conflict for a better relationship in the future.
Improving your life using the meaning of dreams requires effort on your part - as does anything important. First you have to learn to focus your mind and heart, then you should remember the details of your dreams, and finally learn to analyze your dreams. Sometimes it may require that you deal with issues that may have been buried deeply in your subconscious mind and force you to face some unpleasant things.
Dreams can help you to improve your life in many areas. Dreams may aid with personal growth, career development, parenting, can help you to build skills that can help improve every aspect of your life, and can even help you to be a more creative person. As with many things, it is a matter of learning a set of skills (remembering and interpreting) and using these skills to enhance your life - dreaming your way to a better life!
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About the Author:
Jim Eastman writes on a wide variety of topics. To find out more about dream meanings visit http://www.meaningbehinddreams.com and sign up for the free mini-course by email.
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