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Self-Help
Publisher: Applied Conscious Technologies, LLC
ISBN-10: 0998545929
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 390
Copyright: Dec 4, 2018
ISBN-13: 9780998545929
Price: $9.99 (eBook)
One dream can change your life, if you understand its meaning. The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary unlocks the power of dream symbols with tips, tools, and 1500 symbols defined for personal growth by the creator of popular dreams website, TheCuriousDreamer.com. “This is the coolest book I've ever read about dreams!” according to one enthusiastic early reviewer.
What’s different about this dream dictionary is its hands-on approach to using dreams for personal growth, with step-by-step techniques and practical tips for delving into symbol meanings. Unlike most dream dictionaries, these symbol descriptions prompt dreamers to explore both traditional and personal meanings, as well as hidden pointers to a happier self and better life. The transformational focus of this book draws from various modern psychology disciplines and the author’s years of client dreamwork.
One dream symbol can reveal the meaning of an entire life-transforming dream. This dream dictionary unlocks the power of dream symbols with tips, tools, and 1500 symbols defined for personal growth by the author of The Curious Dreamer’s Practical Guide to Dream Interpretation.
Decode Life-Changing Answers: Dream symbols divulge insights about yourself and your life: your hopes, fears, opportunities, clues to life direction and what’s holding you back. This book teaches you to master the art of dream symbol translation and discover hidden pointers to a better life. You’ll learn:
- Why dream symbol meaning is personal and standard meanings don't apply.
- How to understand what a dream symbol says about you and your life.
- How to spot the most common types of dream symbolism.
- Which dream symbols to analyze (and which to ignore).
- How to recognize an important or urgent dream symbol.
- How to retrieve symbol meanings buried in your subconscious mind.
- The key role of intuition in dream symbol analysis.
A Complete Course in Dream Symbol Interpretation: This comprehensive dictionary of dreams includes specific steps, analysis techniques, tips for recognizing symbol meanings, and 1500 illuminating symbol descriptions that prompt you to explore both traditional and personal meanings (rather than the one-size-fits-all approach of most dream dictionaries).
Discover What You've Been Missing in Your Dreams: The interpretation of dreams opens the door to a new world of empowering self-knowledge in your dreams each night. This book puts that power of dream symbol meaning directly into your hands.
The symbol in the dream...does not conceal, it teaches. ~ Carl Jung
Excerpt
CHAPTER 1-1 (EXCERPT #1)
Decoding Dream Symbols
In This Chapter:
Unlocking the Power of Your Dreams 3
A Practical Goal 4 / The Value in Dreams 4
Using This Book to Translate Symbols 4
Translating Symbols 4 / Possibilities, Not Answers 5 / Learn Dream Symbol Language 5 / Let Intuition Be Your Guide 6 / Take the Winding Path 7
The Steps for Interpreting Symbols 7
TOOL: Dream Dictionary 7 / TOOL: Parallels Between Symbols and Real Life 10
If Your Symbol Is Not Listed 14
Find the Symbol Category 14 / TOOL: Caveman Explanation 14
The moment you wake up from a dream, you already know what it means. The answers lie deep within your consciousness where the dream and its symbolism were created, right where you left them when you woke up. The essence of the dreamer’s quest is to coax those secrets out into the light of day to reveal dream meaning. This book shows you how to delve into those subconscious depths and retrieve that dream symbol treasure.
Unlocking the Power of Your Dreams
Dream interpretation provides powerful knowledge about yourself that you might not discover otherwise, if you can understand the language of dream symbols. Encoded within dream symbolism you can find clues to what makes you tick, answers that point you toward your ideal life, and insights to help you resolve past issues and move through the challenges ahead. In fact, dream symbolism is so potent that sometimes translating just one dream symbol can unlock the meaning of an entire life-transforming dream. This book teaches you how to translate dream symbol meaning and use it as the key to unlock the power of your dreams.
A Practical Goal
The practical goal of dream interpretation, as I see it, is to find the value in each dream so you can then apply it to improve yourself and your life. A dream’s value may be profound and life changing, or as simple as the realization that eating sweets too close to bedtime can trigger night-mares. Whatever the content of a dream, you can learn from it. So as you explore your dreams, keep the following objective in mind: Find the value in your dreams.
The Value in Dreams
Virtually every dream offers value, revealing some new understanding about yourself or your life. If you pay attention to your dreams, they can help you:
• Better understand yourself and your needs.
• Get answers to important questions.
• Clarify life purpose and direction.
• Discover creative ideas and visions.
• Help resolve issues from the past.
• Resolve fears and move ahead.
• Identify important health conditions.
• Learn how to reduce stress in your life.
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CHAPTER 1-1 (EXCERPT #2)
TOOL: Parallels Between Symbols and Real Life
This technique can help you discover what your symbol represents in your real life by giving your subconscious mind a chance to reveal what it already knows. The idea of this technique is to explore each symbol in a way that focuses your mind on it for a while to provide the time and space for a flash of recognition about its meaning.
1. Identify the key symbols in your dream—usually the characters or objects that stood out the most during the dream. Write a list of them in your dream journal or on a separate sheet of paper. Keep-ing notes will help when you get to the end of this process and it’s time to pull together all of the clues.
2. For each key symbol, consider what stood out about it. Describe your first impression of it in a few words. Often, whatever you tend to notice about a symbol initially during the dream can tip you off as to what it represents, so make sure you note your first impression before you explore the dream symbol further. For more ideas, read the description for your symbol in “Chapter 3-2: The Symbols” (p. 45).
3. For each key symbol, explore the following aspects associated with it, looking for parallels between these aspects and aspects of your waking life.
Feelings—Consider your feelings about the symbol during the dream, and why—what was behind those feelings. Perhaps you recognize a certain time when you’ve felt that way in your real life. If so, consider what triggered those feelings in real life and how the symbol might represent that situation.
Physical Symbol—Take note of the symbol’s physical character-istics, how it was placed or positioned, its context and attributes, and anything else physical that stood out about it or that seemed unusual or unexpected about it.
Setting—Consider the physical setting of the symbol. Think about where the symbol was located—in a kitchen, on a desk, on the lawn, in the air—and what else was around it. Pay attention to anything unusual or unexpected about its setting.
Environment—Notice the kind of environment around the symbol—season, weather, time of day, lighting, and so on. Con-sider how its environment reminds you of a situation or mood you’ve experienced in your waking life.
Actions—Consider the action(s) involved. If the symbol was an inanimate object, consider what happened to it and how the dream character(s) related to it. If the symbol is alive, consider its actions and motivations, and whether there was anything unusual or unexpected about them.
Wordplay—Think about what wordplay could tell you about what the symbol represents in your life. Wordplay includes puns, synonyms, sound-alike words or phrases, slang words, figures of speech, and so on.
4. Review all of your observations, and see if you notice a pattern that reminds you of an event or situation in your life, or an issue that’s been on your mind. If the meanings you defined in Steps 1 through 3 don’t match anything obvious in your real life, focus on the symbol and your feeling about it and see if another meaning comes forward that resonates with you. If you don’t recognize a meaning that relates to your real life, the symbol may represent something in your mind—such as a hope, fear, desire, something you’re imagining, or some idea or experience your subconscious mind created during the dream state itself.
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THE SYMBOLS (EXCERPT #3)
Abandonment
An issue of trust, integrity, support, or self-support. A feeling or fear of abandonment on some level in your life, including physical (such as your best friend relocating to another state), emotional (such as your partner withdrawing emotional support), mental (such as friends refusing to talk to you), spiritual (such as feeling that God has abandoned you), financial (your parents refusing to help you financially), or otherwise. The idea of being let down, being left behind, or losing someone or something in real life. Abandoning yourself somehow (such as not standing up for yourself). You abandoning someone can represent: a feeling or fear of letting someone down, breaking a promise, or neglecting a responsibility to that person; an emotional reaction to that person or their behavior; the idea of giving up on someone; a desire to get away from someone or something; abandoning yourself. See also: Rejection; Betrayed, Being; Leaving a Person; Breaking Up; Left, Being; Agreement, Breaking an; Helpless
Abduction
An issue of power, control, personal boundaries, authority, or abuse of authority. Abducting someone can represent: trying to force your will or motives onto another person; attempting to victimize, manipulate, or take power away from another person. Being abducted can represent: a feeling or fear of someone forcing their will on you, abusing their au-thority, or (especially if the person is a friend or loved one) removing you from your comfort zone; a fear of losing control or feeling helpless somehow in your life. See also: Hostage; Missing Person; Taking From; Stealing
Above
Feeling or being above something or someone, or imagining what that would be like. Considering yourself “too good for” involvement with a certain activity or person. Believing that you’re an exception or you’re not subject to general rules (such as feeling “above the law”). Feeling more advanced or evolved than others. Also consider the meaning of what’s below the object that’s “above” in the dream. See also: Climbing; High; Under; Top
Abscess
Something that “festers” within you (such as a grudge, lingering judg-ment, or long-term blame of others). Getting rid of unwanted or unde-sirable things, or detoxing or cleansing in some aspect of your life (such as decluttering your schedule). An attempt at damage control or con-tainment. A nuisance or situation that slowly builds before you’re finally forced to deal with it. See also: Infection; Acne; Eruption; Skin
Absorbing
Dealing with, finding a solution for, or making something go away. As-similating or taking into your own circle, space, life, or area of responsi-bility (as in taking on someone else’s responsibilities or letting someone join your group). Receiving or using (as in absorbing information, ideas, or nourishment). Making disappear (as in “cleaning up” a problem). See also: Towel; Eating; Cleaning; Dry Up
Abuse
A feeling or fear of (physical, emotional, or mental) abuse, manipulation, someone trying to gain power over you, someone taking advantage of you, or other ill will. Something in your past that was (or felt) abusive. Perceiving someone in your life as hurtful or disrespectful. See also: Tor-mented; Attacked, Being; Attacking; Judgment or Disapproval; Hurt, Being; Weird
Abyss
A huge challenge, obstacle, or “unknown” in your life. A fear. Infinity or oblivion. Something unfathomable or too “deep” to understand. Feelings of overwhelm. Depth of feelings, beliefs, etc. See also: Canal; Valley
Accelerator
An accelerator or gas pedal (or something else that feeds fuel to an en-gine) can represent: Your ability to move forward and make progress in life. The idea of making quicker progress toward a goal. A desire to es-cape a situation more quickly. An accelerator that’s not working can represent a perceived obstacle or a lack of empowerment, motivation, or energy. An accelerator stuck in the “full-on” position can represent feeling out of control or not able to slow down in some aspect of your life. See also: Fuel; Feeding; Fast; Fire; Driving; Starting an Engine; Vehi-cle; Propeller
Accent
Someone speaking with an accent can represent: The idea of that person (or whatever they represent) seeming foreign or different from you (or from others) in some way. A characteristic you attribute to that person that reminds you of the culture or area associated with the accent (such as a Swedish accent representing a talent at creative design, if that’s what you associate with Sweden). See also: Language
Accident
Being in an accident (such as in a car or airplane) can represent feeling or fearing: a surprise, a threat, something catastrophic that’s out of your control, or things not going your way or according to your schedule. Be-ing hit by a vehicle can represent: a wake-up call about something you need to be aware of or change in your life; the idea of a sudden challenge in real life, such as a feared, expected, or imagined change; feeling taken by surprise or blindsided by something. See also: Problem; Injured; Hurt, Being; Disaster; Driving; Rear Ended; Failure; Breaking; Destroying
Accumulating
Accumulating, saving, or stocking up on things can represent an actual, desired, or feared: Situation of having plenty or too much of something (such as money, possessions, or love). Shortage of something, or a desire to avoid or compensate for one. Preparedness (or lack of it) for the fu-ture. Procrastination or postponing, as in “letting things stack up” while delaying action. Letting things pile up emotionally (such as grudges, blame, or judgments) by not working through them. Hoarding or keep-ing things for yourself (such as money) or to yourself (such as secrets). See also: Increasing; Many; Group; Storage; Shelf; Container; Finances; Money
Ache
A physical ache in a dream might point to an actual imbalance in the body, or it might represent: Physical, emotional, or mental pain, or a person or situation triggering pain within you. A yearning or desire for something. An ache in a specific area of your body could represent feeling challenged in whatever area the body part represents (such as a back ache representing feeling tired having to stand up for yourself in a certain situation). See also: Pain; Hurt, Being; Injured; Headache
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