Dreams Bring Us A Message

Recurring dreams are especially important because they tell us over and over about something we should hear. They indicate a knot that should be undone to continue our growth path. In the same way, we can understand nightmares as allies who “want” our balance.

But understanding the language of dreams is not an easy task and can often become frustrating. For the relationship with our dreams to be fluid, we should attend to the elements that appear in them as a poet attends to that flower that he finds walking through the field.

What can we learn from dreams?

Instead of wondering what the flower means, keep in mind what it inspires, what it suggests, what it evokes.

Are there any circumstances in your life where you feel like in the dream? Is the relationship you have with any of the characters similar to the one you have with someone you know?

To start, for example, you can look at those elements that stand out (either because they cause you fear or discomfort, or because they are in the wrong place, or because they do not work …)

They could be related to what is disrupting your growth process, something new that awakens the ego’s suspicions and its resistances.

Better than wondering what this dream means, perhaps you should ask yourself what it has come for. The answer is ultimately up to you.

The six magic questions

The American psychologist Robert Hoss proposes a particularly useful exercise to explore the objects of your dream. Choose one of them, imagine that you are that object and answer the following questions from this perspective, in the first person and in the present.

Write the answers:

• What are you? (name and describe yourself)
• What is your purpose or function?
• What do you like about being what you are?
• What do you dislike about being what you are?
• What are you afraid of?
• What do you wish?

When you finish, review the answers and see if any of them have a certain emotional charge or connect you with a conflict, an unfinished situation, a present fear …

The hidden meaning of your dreams

Simply answering the questions may have sparked some insight, but if not, the following exercise may help you:

Build a sentence that you feel is coherent and understandable, combining the six previous answers -or those that have resonated with you for some reason- in the order that I propose.

You can use the words that you will see, or similar ones, and fill in the blanks with the answer corresponding to one of the numbers.

If necessary, you can adapt that answer so that the sentence is logical or makes sense to you.

“I am (1) and I do (2) because (3). I want / wish / I would like (6), but it worries / scares me (4-5) ”.

Read the entire sentence.

Do you see any relationship with a situation in your wakefulness or with a certain attitude?