Insights From The Dream Expert - Irene Martina dear dreamers, You are the writer, producer, director and star of all your dreams. Only you can really interpret your dreams. The language of dreams is symbols, metaphors and emotions. As our minds are unconscious in dreams, your dream “creator” can only pull information stored in your brain (data base) and try to use this to give you a dream message. In the dream below I try to give guidelines to what the dreams may mean. You must always ask yourself- what does the symbol, person, color, emotion etc. mean to me in my dreams? Only you really know the answer and if what I say should resonate in a small or big way then you are on track to understanding what your symbols are meaning. The best way to learn how to understand your dream language is to keep a dream journal of each dream that does stand out for you and to keep digging to find meanings that resonate. My suggestions below are only my ideas and not meant to be replacing your own dream language or interpretations. To access Irene’s interactive column or submit a dream question be sure to logon to www.thevioletray.ca. This issues Dream Contest Topic is: do you think you have had a past life dream and why? Enter our neW dream contest by submitting your dream and contact information to: irene@thevioletray.ca For more on Irene please visit her website at www.irenemartina.com.
hello irene, I watched this 20/20 episode on TV about 2 kids killing one 2 yr old and harming the 4 yr old and every since then I have been scared that someone is going to harm me or my family. I have now been having these bizarre dreams one after the other. Does this mean something bad is about to happen to me or my family, or is my dream telling me that I need to start being aware of my surroundings???? ~ Thanks, Jessica ~ dear jessica, These types of dreams are not uncommon and although they are scary and deeply troubling; what they are doing is bringing out your subconscious and conscious fears. I do not think these dreams are precognitive about harm
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coming to your family nor do you need to have an abnormal awareness to your surroundings. I think that each dream you had could just be building on your fear issues even more. I have often thought of nightmares as spiritual dreams because they are forcing us to look at issues in our life that we often ignore in a regular dream message. The best thing to do is to back into the dream and face it head on. Try to visualize one of these dreams in your waking hours and see yourself back into the dream where something “bad” or “bizarre” is about to take place and change the dream to become the outcome you would like it to be. By doing this you take back control of your fears and your life. An example of this would be: If someone is going to attack you, talk him/them out of it or walk away knowing you are safe and they cannot hurt you. What ever you wish to change in each dream; do so and this will take away the fear of them and you will gain more control over your daily fears. These types of dreams are often current life events that we need to face. For example you wrote: I had a dream this afternoon that I was abducted and placed in a basement of some sort and was on fire. Basements represent our past memories and subconscious mind. Dealing with the past can be difficult to do as we may not want to come to terms with issues from our past. Your dreams are bringing out these fears that you may have suppressed for years and not even be conscious of. As for fire, you have to ask yourself what the symbol means to you. What do you relate fire too? To see yourself being burnt is again a fear of something you need to face. Perhaps a relationship, fears of danger, fear of losing control, fear of your life in general. To some fire is passion, transformation, transmutation, punishment, fresh start, burning old bridges etc. Fire is often meant to be a cleansing and I would go back into this dream and ask the fire why it is in your dream. Wait for an answer and see if it makes sense. Ask yourself what are you running from or have you lost your passion in life or perhaps you simply want to burn the past and will not let it go. Sweet Dreams everyone!
The Violet Ray
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