INTRODUCTION
This is not a dream dictionary. It actually wouldn’t be much used to you if it were. For there isn’t a dream dictionary in existence which can reliably translate the beautifully intricate language of your unconscious mind; and there never will be either. 

You are the best person to interpret your dreams. And You are also your own best resource when it comes to recognizing what the “symbols” in your dreams mean. There is no one else on this planet who knows you as intimately as you know yourself; therefore, you are the foremost authority on you that you could ever hope to find. The experiences you’ve had, the thoughts you entertain, the emotions you feel, the desires that excite you… all blend to form a perspective on life which is uniquely yours. You could search the whole universe a dozen times over and I guarantee you would never find a better expert on you than you are right now. And since your dreams are about you, from you, to you – there is no one else in a better position to understand what your dreams are saying to you than you are. Can you imagine yourself asking someone, “I feel hungry. What do you think I want?” The only thing more nonsensical than posing such a question would be getting back a response which suggested anything other than, that’s something you need to answer for yourself. 

I know many of you, as you sit here now and reflect on some of the dreams you’ve had, are wondering how you alone could ever make sense of these convoluted things called dreams. From our conscious perspective, the scenarios in our dreams seem to randomly swing between the preposterous and the awe-inspiring. If a dictionary won’t help us figure these things out, then the plight might seem hopeless. But it is my absolute promise to you that it is not hopeless. In fact, you already speak the language of your dreams; you just don’t know that you know it yet. It is this unawareness (that you don’t know that you know) that is the only language barrier between you and your unconscious “musings.” 

 
Chapter 1

LAYING THE FOUNDATION
There is a very good reason why long division isn’t taught in the first grade. Well duh right? It’s simply common sense. It would be a needlessly frustrating task to attempt to teach long division to anyone who doesn’t first understand the mathematical concepts of addition, subtraction and multiplication; because it is in the understanding of these math concepts that the foundation is laid for an understanding of numerous other mathematical principles, including that of long division. In like manner, there are a few fundamental concepts which will aid you in your understanding of the nature of dreams and the process of interpreting them. So before we jump into the dream interpretation process, let’s lay a little groundwork first. The groundwork is what will provide you with a context for understanding how and why this dream interpretation works.

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Who You Really Are
You are Spirit. What you see when you look in the mirror is not you, but (in every sense of the word) a reflection of you. 

You are not your body. Your body is merely the vehicle your Spirit uses to express itself through. You (as Spirit) infill your body, but you are not your body.  You are no more your body than you are your car simply because you get in your car and drive it.

You are not your personality either. Your tastes, your preferences, your biases, your temperament, your interests… all of these things make up your personality. None of these things are constant however. Still no matter how much these qualities change, are you not still the same you regardless of the persona you put on? You may play the role of mother, you may play the role of daughter, you may play the role of wife, a sister, a friend, a co-worker for any number of occupations… and you undoubtedly put on a different “face” for each of the roles you play. You are constantly adjusting your personality to cater to the circumstance before you. But behind all the many masks of you, there is still that of you which never changes. This is the You that is Spirit. It is that part of you which is more than your body, more than your personality, more than your thoughts. It is that part of you which is Real and substantial. It is that part of you which is beyond mere matter, beyond fleeting moods, and yes even beyond passing thoughts. For your thoughts, just like the qualities of your personality, are not constant. You are not the thoughts you contemplate because are you not still the same you that you have always been no matter what thought you may choose to entertain at any given moment? You are the same you that you are now and have always been if in one moment you are contemplating what to have for dinner and in another moment thinking of what to buy your mom for her birthday.

You are the same Witnesser of your thoughts. You are the same Witnesser of your experiences. You are at the back of all that plays on around you – watching and witnessing.  If You were merely your thoughts, or merely your emotions, or merely your personality, or merely your body, or even a collection of all these things – then who is that behind all of these activities witnessing and considering every aspect of your experience? You cannot be both the Witnesser and that which is witnessed. You cannot be both the Considerer and the thing which is considered. Thoughts pass before your mind’s eye like a slide show. Emotions swell up and dissipate. You may alter your personality at will. Your body is constantly remaking itself; even now, this very second, there are cellular parts of your body that are new to you since just yesterday. Everything is in motion around You. You are the only constant, the one factor which remains unchanged, permanent, unaffected by the fluctuations going on before You. This is the you that is Spirit.

You are Spirit.

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The Universe Is So Much More Than What You Can See
Of course I’m stating the obvious when I say that there is a whole lot more to the universe than what is merely apparent to our five senses.  Sometimes though, we need to be reminded of this truth. Because sometimes when we are asked to consider an idea which we cannot verify by personally seeing it with our own eyes, hearing it with our own ears, touching it with our own hands… we tend to mock that idea or be dismissive of it.  For example, the whole idea that anyone has the ability to communicate with “the dead” or with beings from another realm through something called channeling is utter nonsense according to some opinions.  To some, this whole notion seems as fantastic an idea as the concept of television probably would have seemed had it been proposed a hundred years ago before we, as a society, had an understanding of how to use our knowledge of frequencies to broadcast sounds and pictures across great distances. 

Today our science has decisively established that despite all appearances to the contrary, nothing in the universe is truly solid. Nothing in the universe is truly at rest. All matter is, in fact, composed of bundles of rapidly moving energy packets which further dissolves into something science has not yet defined. Therefore we know that despite the definite and concrete appearance of things in our physical realm, we are (in reality) vibrational beings living in a vibrational universe. And given our society’s present understanding of vibration and how vibrations interact; how in order to be receptive to certain other vibrations, an instrument needs to be sympathetically tuned to that other vibration. (For instance, you would not expect to be able to receive the television programs broadcast on channel 25 if you set your television to channel 7.) Given this understanding  you’d think we (as a society) would be more accepting of the idea that some people in our society are mentally tuned in such a way as to render them able to be receptive to communication from entities who exist outside of our physical space / time (while other people may not be so tuned). Given our understanding of the real nature of the universe as not being in any way frozen but alive with all different kinds of vibrations you’d think this would be an obvious conclusion but it, more often than not, is not. And the reason it is not obvious is because we all too often forget to remind ourselves of the previously stated truth - that there is a whole lot more to the universe than what is merely apparent to our senses. 

We don’t physically sense every spectrum of vibration the universe has to offer. X-rays are beyond are ability to physically sense. Gamma rays are beyond our ability to physically sense. It is only when we were able to detect these vibrational spectrums with mechanical instruments that we became aware of their existence. And yet we understand that despite our previous unawareness of these particular vibrational spectrums these vibrational spectrums have always been in existence. Our discovery of these types of vibrations merely brought them into the scope of our awareness; it did not bring them into existence. Both x-rays and gamma rays have been in existence long before we knew anything about them.

The fact of the matter is, is that there is a whole lot more which falls outside the bounds of our awareness than there is that which falls within it. The universe is so much more than what we see.

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