Types of Dreams

 

Dream Symbols

Dream symbols often vary from dream to dream and from dreamer to dreamer. This makes it difficult to try to interpret your dream from a symbol book purchased in a bookstore. A skilled dream interpreter will interpret symbols based on the context of the dream and the dreamer. For example, the cat in dream can support independent spirit. However, to the dreamer who loves cats, the cat can symbolize something deeply favorites. Our translators of dream are trained to enter dream with the dreamer and correctly to identify symbols in a context of the whole dream.

The "shadow" of our personalities is that portion that we repress or refuse to acknowledge -- even the most kind-hearted nun has emotions and urges that are not confessed.  In addition, it was Jung's belief that each of us has access to mythological, cultural and historical symbols that we somehow genetically inherited from our ancestors.  He referred to this knowledge as the "collective unconscious".  It is my personal belief that we have access to this knowledge and symbolism as a result of our previous
lives - we remember everything, but can (usually) only access it in our dreams.