Dream Interpretation

Here is a very simple tool for interpreting your dreams: Describe the dream to someone else, and listen to the words that come out of your own mouth. I have found that if I just think about a dream, I merely see the same images that I saw when I was dreaming. But when I tell the dream to another person (or just talk to myself as if I were talking to someone else), the words I use are sometimes very surprising and tell me things about the dream that I hadn't realized before!

For instance, I had a dream in which I saw fish swimming around my ankle, but I wasn't in the water... the fish were swimming in the air. But when I described the dream to someone, I said the fish were "out of water!" That's when it hit me: yes, lately, I had been feeling like things weren't quite right, or that I wasn't really where I needed to be. I was feeling like a fish out of water!

Discovering the meaning in your dreams is always enlightening, but sometimes it can literally be life-changing. One time I was telling a friend of mine about a dream I'd had the night before, which involved someone I know. I said something like "it was as if I were angry at him for..." and suddenly I realized that for years I had, in fact, been angry with the person in my dream, and for something that wasn't his fault! And with that realization came an energetic shift; in that moment, I let go of some emotional baggage that I had been carrying around for a very long time. And all because I talked about my dream, instead of just thinking about it!

Talk about your dreams, and you might just discover what they mean!