Dream interpretation How to understand a dream

How to Understand a Dream: Rules of Interpretation and Simple Methods

How to understand a dream? This question is asked by everyone who has ever had a vivid, strange, or frightening dream. Eighty percent of people’s dreams are symbolic images. Almost all of us see dreams encrypted by our subconscious. Why? Because all of us dream in altered states of consciousness. The interpretation of incoming signals from the surrounding world occurs in these states through images of the reality familiar to each of us.

If you want to check your symbols, go to the dream interpretation app. It contains thousands of real examples from our project, a complete database of dreams that came true, and more than 7,000 symbols with interpretations that are not publicly available.

Why We Don’t Understand Our Dreams

The simplest way to learn to understand dreams, strange as it may sound, is to decipher other people’s. When you try to understand your own dream, there will always be a temptation (especially characteristic of beginners) to bend the interpretation of the dream toward the desired result. That’s just how we’re wired.

Another important factor is the correction coefficient of emotions. That’s what I call it. We are driven by fear, love, despair more than by reason. And that’s a fact. That is, our emotions constantly cloud the mind. Constantly.

When you decipher another person’s dream, all these interferences are absent for you. You see everything clearly, impartially. According to my observations, when a person gives a characterization of someone else’s dream plot, they perceive its essence 40-50 percent more accurately.

On the project, experienced participants constantly offer each other their own vision. Such experience is needed first and foremost by themselves.

And that’s not all. At the time when they are analyzing other people’s dreams, they find many of their own symbols and recurring plots, which gives a complete picture of where they were mistaken when deciphering their own dreams. And don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Over time there are fewer mistakes, and more understanding. The person to whom you express your vision will have more opinions, and that is always better than just one of your own.

Three categories of dreams

All our dreams can be divided into three main categories.

Dreams in which the experience we have received is processed. This is how we digest everything that happened to us during the day. Such dreams can be paid attention to, but only as conclusions. A kind of summary of what it all actually was.

Dreams that help release negativity and get rid of overexertion. Suppose you are going through a period of worry, accumulated fatigue, stress, distress. Sleep, as the best healer, will reset your accumulated negativity.

In such dreams you will see and experience everything you worried about and feared. Many think that these are nightmares and because of such dreams they fear all dreams in general. Don’t be afraid. To these horror dreams, easily say THANK YOU. Because that is exactly how fear and stress are annulled. And one more thing. These dreams do not need to be deciphered. There is no information in them and they are not about the future.

Dreams – projections of possible variants of the future. Those very prophetic dreams. These definitely deserve your attention. Such information is worth taking into account. In it there are hints, better options, possible events. And such dreams require a response.

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How? In short: if you liked the plot, we leave everything as it is. When similar events occur, we take steps toward the goal. That is, we do not block the event. If you do not like the plot, we implement its mini-model in life, understanding from the plot what leads to the bad variant of the event, and we move away from it. Or a return to the dream. You change the plot right in the dream. And it works. In reality, you move away from the bad scenario.

Rules for interpreting dreams

When you write down your dream in order to understand it without help as well, pay attention to the following few rules.

Where did everything happen? A house, work, a street, a room will be an indication of the sphere of life that what you saw in the dream concerns.

The characters? They will likewise be direct or indirect participants in the event.

Your emotions and sensations? The emotional background is important information. Because the emotions will repeat in reality as well at the moment of realization.

The ending of the dream? Often this is the most important information, for the prelude to it may be worth absolutely nothing.

The combination of symbols

If, for example, we take two different dreams with one and the same symbol, a ring. In one dream, a guy gave a gold ring.

And in the second, the gold ring burst and fell from the ring finger. No one would make things up for themselves. Yet many did exactly that before. That in the second case and in the first, as written in most dream books, it means a marriage proposal.

Do you agree that there is a difference? And what is the difference? It is in the combination of symbols. In the first case, it is ring plus gave plus guy, which means union plus proposed plus by a specific person, a character in the dream.

In the second case, it’s a ring plus it burst plus it fell plus off the ring finger, which means a union plus fell apart unexpectedly plus annulment plus position (the status of a wife).

When you read the main characteristic of a symbol, you get information about the essence of the symbol. But you need to take into account the influence of symbols on each other, and therefore consider the combination of symbols.

Why dreams are encrypted

Every dream has its own focus of attention. If you know about this and remember it every time when interpreting a dream, it will be easy to understand the meaning.

The fact that, by conveying its message, your subconscious delivers it in its own language of symbols, simply needs to be accepted.

Neither explain nor prove why this is so, but simply accept it like the fact that the English and Americans speak English, Spaniards, Cubans, Chileans speak Spanish, Russians speak Russian.

We are not surprised by this and do not try to somehow logically explain to ourselves and others every time we hear their speech, are we?

So it is in the case of our dreams — information is transmitted through symbols.

And each such message has some key factor, a main one.

It’s like a story or a novel or a novella. With a main plot. Everything else is additional scenery.

How to determine the focus of attention of your dream

Here everything is actually simple. Your attention will constantly concentrate on a character or event through: position (the central part, in the center of attention), bright colors, fairly strong emotions toward it. The entire story of the dream will be around the main idea, that is, the plot will return to it.

If you miss something important in a dream (and therefore in life), which, by the way, can become a problem for you due to a lack of attention on your part, in the dream the subconscious will place an additional special emphasis.

Sometimes it gets to the point where the subconscious compensates for your lack of awareness with a beam of light on an object, bright flashy clothing or coloring, loud sounds and shouting.

How to give dreams titles

Give dreams titles. Concise, such that it sounds like a thesis whose meaning reveals the entire essence of the dream. Have you tried doing this? At the same time, don’t think about making it sound beautiful or be written correctly. Don’t think about whether someone will like it. In your notes, as in a personal diary, everything is for you. First and foremost, and secondly too.

If you start picking expressions and arranging words in the right order, the meaning can get lost. Your guideline is your inner impulse, your feeling, your memory elements. After all, many of them can be understood only by you. They appeared as a result of your experience.

Giving titles is a useful skill for everything that happens to us. In any case, at the subconscious level, each event will retain its own label in your memory. It’s better to give the title yourself. The series of stories of our life is, as you remember, books of life for the subconscious. And the chapters in it are the titles of these stories.

It’s the same with your dreams. In a dream diary, the title of each of your stories should sound such that from just a few words you can literally immerse yourself in your dream. Emotionally and mentally.

Sometimes I read the diaries of participants on the site in the Blogs, and the title grabs you so much that you get the feeling that you yourself had this dream.

You just feel it: He came and said, we will fix what broke. It was like a curse was lifted from me. One river dried up, and the source of another appeared. Your husband appeared in a dream as a vampire. A wound that healed quickly.

In that very title lies the answer to the dream. All that remains is to decipher the details. Dream titles are another rule. The subconscious is structured in such a way that the title is often the key to understanding the cluster of information that you have opened for yourself. Because unconsciously we give a definition, immediately including in it the meaning, the essence. Often this happens intuitively; we do not even immediately realize that our expressions are keys.

A dream that came true: a she-bear and harassment

Here is one of the dreams that came true from a participant in the project. This is only one example out of thousands. The world’s largest database of dreams that came true is collected in our app. There you will find stories that will confirm or refute your guesses.

Some man (I cannot see his face at all) reached toward me several times, trying to take my breast with his hands. Moreover, I am standing in clothes, and as soon as he reaches his hands toward me, I am surprised to see my breast bare and covered with light hair/fur. And only I see this; he does not see it at all (he sees me in clothes).

As soon as he starts reaching toward me, I immediately slowly turn away from him, turning my right side, then my back. And at the same time I make my breast smaller, and he feels this, but he does not care at all. He never managed to reach it; I woke up.

Then at some point I was in the body of a she-bear, and I looked at her/myself from the outside. A medium-sized, plump, sturdy little thing. The fur clean and beautiful, shimmering, mostly chocolate-colored, with cream on the chest. And everything was so calm, as if that’s how it should be, an ordinary matter. I woke up in surprise — I had never been a she-bear before.

How the dream came true: I woke up and immediately understood that harassment lay ahead, most likely at work. But I thought it would be from some sick client. And it turned out to be my non-drinking employer. That same day, by evening, he got drunk, showed up, and laid out all his propositions at once (exactly a week after I started the job).

At first I politely sidestepped the topic (I shrink my chest and turn away). But I quickly got tired of it, and I had to calmly but more firmly defend my boundaries (in the body of the she-bear).

A dream come true: the guy and the withered roses

I hadn’t been in touch with a guy for a while. Then I had a dream about him. As if I accidentally ran into him in a subway lobby and he gave me a big bouquet of red roses. Only the roses turned withered in my hands.

How the dream came true: In the end he called me with declarations of love, we had a date and all that. We saw each other for a while. Then he grew cold toward me.

What to do if you want to understand a dream

If you want to understand a dream, write it down. Right after waking up, write down all the details before they’re forgotten. Write down your feelings during the dream and after waking up.

Check the symbols in the app. Each symbol has its own meaning. Check all the details of your dream. Don’t search on the website, search in the app — there are over 7,000 dream interpretation symbols, determined based on analytics from thousands of dreams that came true within the project.

Pay attention to the atmosphere, the characters, the emotions, and the ending. These are four keys to understanding a dream.

To choose the right time for lucid dreaming practices, use the Dream Calendar. And if you want to understand the logic of dreams more deeply, read the book “Prophetic Dreams and Lucid Dreaming”.

Join our Dream Forum.

Frequently asked questions

How do you understand a dream?
Pay attention to four rules: where everything took place, what characters were present, what emotions you felt, and how the dream ended. Also take into account the combination of symbols.

Why don’t we understand our dreams?
We are guided by fear, love, despair, more than by reason. Emotions cloud the mind. When you interpret someone else’s dream, those obstacles aren’t there.

What is the focus of attention in a dream?
Your attention is concentrated on a character or event through positioning, bright colors, strong emotions. The entire dream story will revolve around the main idea.

Why are dreams encrypted?
The subconscious transmits information in its own language of symbols. You just need to accept this, just as different peoples speak different languages.

How to give names to dreams?
Give concise names that reveal the essence of the dream. The name is often the key to understanding the cluster of information that you have opened for yourself.

Which dreams should be interpreted?
Dreams-projections of the future. Dreams that process experience, and healing dreams do not need to be deciphered. They contain no information about the future.

Where can I look up the interpretation of other symbols?
The complete database with interpretations of all symbols and thousands of fulfilled dreams are available in the dream interpretation app.

About the project

Our project is a research work about dreams that has been going on for many years. During this time, the world’s largest database of fulfilled dreams has been collected. Thousands of participants share their stories, and based on these stories we compile interpretations of symbols.

Unlike ordinary dream books, which take meanings from encyclopedias, our dream book is created based on the analysis of real dreams that came true. Each symbol has been tested in practice. If different people had the same symbol coincide with the same events, it enters the database.

The app is a dreamers’ club with private access. Everything is collected there: the complete dream book database (more than 7000 symbols), the world’s largest database of fulfilled dreams, practices for inducing informational dreams, diaries, decoding algorithms.

We don’t guess or predict. We work with data. Symbols, patterns, correlations. Dreams show what is already happening or will happen. And it can be verified. As we do in the project.

Join our Dream Forum. And if you want to get access to all the project materials, go to the app.

Author: Victoria Sokolova
Creator and founder of a research project about dreams