by Norman Bennett

Created on: March 16, 2009

Since I was very young, I have known the meaning of dreams. It seemed simple and wasn't anything I gave much thought. I remember family members asking me what a dream meant and I would just tell them. That was about it.

For the most part, the only information available in the book stores or on line are dream dictionaries in which you look up various images and there meaning. To assume that our subconscious minds which have infinite access to all the imagery and imagination within us, would attempt communication using a means based on a book which you have yet to read, has always been incompre-hensible to me. This is the reason I've opened this topic, to share what I know about why we dream, and what our dreams mean...

Why we dream;

We dream to relay information from our unconscious mind which is capable of gaining insight and information from our Higher Selves, which is in turn infinity connected to our Source. I use the word Source meaning our Creator, our God, the Universal Mind, the infinite energy of all things in the universe which reaches far beyond our ability to comprehend in human form. Since we are in human form, we are body, mind and spirit. On this plane of existence we have the opportunity to discover and learn and grow in an atmosphere completely unique to the spiritual self which is eternal. Our higher selves constantly guide and coax and help us to find our way through those lessons. One very important way to get help and information is through dreaming.

In order to interpret a dream you must have an understanding of imagery;

Imagine yourself completely separate from you. You know everything you know. You know how you feel about everything. You know what images create what responses. This is the key. Understanding that the images in your dream, create responses, emotions, feelings and fears based on the information already present in your mind. Those are the tools your subconscious mind or higher self has to work with. Existing knowledge, existing beliefs, existing prejudices, existing frustrations. You have access to unlimited imagination to create a movie or story which will cause the appropriate response. And, it has to be in a format that you are capable of interpreting. Why would you create a completely confusing and uninspiring image which you had no possibility of understanding?

If in your dream, you have an image of an elephant, then who's perception of an elephant is important? Yours, or some book on some shelf in some book store? The elephant

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