As you know our dreams contain a whole range of symbols - anything from a potato to a princess or a devil to a delphinium. How you feel about the symbol and what words you would use to describe it will tell you what that symbol means to you. Using these simple steps will be far more useful to you than any dream dictionary will ever be. Read here to learn how to connect to any symbol using the 4 step technique.

I am going to repeat this next statement often over the next few pages.

You can relate every adjective that you would use to describe the symbol, to yourself, a part of yourself or a facet of your belief system.

The feelings you experience in your dream are very important.

If you are driving a fast car and feel exhilarated this could mean you are progressing at a great speed in an area of your life and find it exhilarating and exciting. But what if you are driving a fast car and feel terrified of crashing? The meaning will be vastly different. Something along the lines of, you are travelling too fast in an area of your life and feel out of control. Or what if you are driving in a fast car that will only do 10 miles an hour and you feel impotent and frustrated? You would need to look at what is holding you back in life either through inside or outside circumstances.

Make a special note of your feelings in relation to each symbol. As you can see from the examples above they will give you a lot of information about your dreams' message.

Recent events come up a lot in our dreams. Sometimes it is because our minds are trying to process and organise what happened, other times they offer the mind handy symbols to present other information.

Past events, people and places also come into our dreams frequently. They are usually telling us that there is something from our past that needs understanding or resolving. You will normally find that the issue is something that is also prominent in your life now.

If you dream about a house you lived in as a child, for instance, ask yourself what was happening in your life at the time you lived there. Did your parents separate? Did you change schools? Was it a particularly happy time? Ask yourself why your mind would want you to revisit that time again. Are there things issues from that time still holding you back? Did you make decisions based on events in the past that are no longer relevant or useful? Do you need to recapture a certain quality or feeling?

The culture we have grown up in will greatly affect the symbols that appear in our dreams and the meaning they have for us. Colours have different meanings in different cultures. In Europe and America red means danger or passion, while in China it means good luck. A bull in the dream of a Spaniard would have a different meaning to a bull in the dream of an American cattle rancher.

That's why we need to look at what the symbol means to us as individuals - this will give us a great deal more useful information than a dream dictionary will.

Cultural Elements

Recent & Past Events

Dream Symbols

Feelings