Dream Recall And Interpretation
Exercises & Techniques
This portion of the material has brief outlines and suggestions for recalling and interpreting your dreams. There are many books in existence that have detailed outlines of how to handle dreams in certain ways. If you’re serious about being an oneironaut, you may want to purchase some of those books. Below are a few suggestions for your personal use.
Functions Of Dreaming
Solving problems - a variety of solutions can be found through the activities of dreams it is not uncommon to wake up knowing exactly what to do about a past, present, or future situation
Process and clarify feelings
Receive new thoughts and ideas
Trial and error scenarios
Express things that cannot be expressed in daily life
Process newly learned skills and information
Practice new ways of being
Pleasure and fun
See the big picture
Reveal the unconscious
Experience the divine
Explore ego of the self and relationships
with others
Learn from mistakes
Messages from the future self with the
benefit of hindsight
Rebalancing the psych
Signs Of An Important Dream
Extremely vivid images
Vivid colors
Strong emotions
Death or dismemberment, gory images
Personal or world catastrophes
Physical pain
Disorientation
Floating or falling
Warnings
Guidance
A sense of taste or smell (occur rarely in dreams)