Introduction to Dream Watching

Let’s get straight to the point

Dreams are one of natures miracles, not the result of a wandering mind in sleep. A dream is an interface between the deepest part of you and your conscious personality. Life existed quite capably for millions of years before the self-aware human personality came on the scene. In all that time the ancestors of the modern human being survived without having a rational mind to reason with, or self consciousness to ask such questions as ‘What do I do about this?’ Nevertheless survival strategies were still developed in their unconscious intelligence. Dreams express this unconscious wisdom that was developed in humans and animals through millennia.

Life’s age old unconscious processes are still the major part of our being, yet we seldom consciously meet them – except in dreams. As our physical and psychological health depend upon a reasonable co-operation between the spontaneous processes of life and our conscious decisions and actions, the encounter in dreams is vital.

Dreams cannot be defined under any one heading. Like human beings, they are enormously varied in what they express. Just as one cannot say the human mind is simply a system of memory, one cannot say dreams are just the reflection of experienced events. The mind also deals with problem solving, predicting outcomes of action, playing with possibilities via imagination, creating the new out of old material, replaying disturbing events in order to find ways of meeting them constructively. Dreams, being the mental phenomena they are, deal with all of these issues and more. The following definitions give the main functions observable in dreams.

Dreams are part of that mystery. They are a way Life speaks to us from its depths.

Dreams are like any other language – if you don’t understand it, the sounds or words appear to have no meaning at all. So learn something about the way dreams use symbols as language. Read Language and Dreams. If you want to, you can look up your dream symbols in the Online Dream Interpreter. But that may not give you enough depth of understanding. However, the many links below give you access to direct ways of understanding your dreams and amplifying anything you gain from the online dream dictionary. Interpretation is only an intelectual thing, it doesn’t get to the depth of feeling dreams contain. You can can only make that journey through actually diving into your own dreams. If you can do that a door opens to wonderland. I mean it!

Dreams often show us what the events we witness around us are leading to. See: Vision in the River of Dreams; Groundswell; ESP in Dreams.; Prophecy.

Dreams have structures and dimensions you will not see unless you know how to look for them. When you know how to recognise these it gives you an almost immediate insight into your dreams. To understand and use these structures read Dream Processing; and What We Need to Remember About Dreaming.

One of the greatest ways of exploring your dreams is working with a partner. To learn this read Peer Dream Work. This  the way to go on the journey to wonderland. Here is an audio example of Tony working the Peer Dream Work way: Dream Exploration.

Dreams are worth taking time with, so look at Creative Relationship with Dreams.

Some of the best general guides you can have are the books Dream Dictionary and Your Dream Interpreter. Not only do they have a full list of dream symbols, but they tell you how to work with your dreams, their feelings and drama. Buy Dream Dictionary from Amazon UK or from Amazon USA Buy Your Dream Interpreter from Amazon UK or from Amazon USA Nowadays there are also the guidanc egiven via you cell/mobile phone or through iPhone and iPad.