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I have taken many years to arrive at the possible meaning of each dream symbol. But what is said is quite useless unless you add something to the description. What you need to add is a little time and effort to place what is said in connection with your everyday life. For instance, in the entry on ABANDONED, the description suggests the dream might be saying you are feeling uncared for or insecure. Take time to consider if you can recognise any of these feelings in your thoughts or feelings in waking life. If you can, talk or write out when such feelings first appeared in your life. Record in some way what part they play in your relationships or decisions. Define how they influence you. Particularly allow any feelings to surface that you have about them. This is the real way to discover the enormous information dreams hold in them, and the enormous potential for change they offer you. Remember that just as words have different meanings because of context in a sentence, so dream images gain significance from context also. It might help if the read the feature Gaining Information from Your Dreams.

• Introduction to Dream Understanding

Your own associations are of great importance also. This is because your dream images are created out of your own experiences and feelings about things. A simple way to arrive at some of your own associations is to write down the word describing the image. Supposing the image word is 'train' - you might immediately say, "Hate trains. don't like travelling on them or meeting the people on them." So your dream train could depict a way of getting about in your life that you don't like. In this way build up your own dream dictionary of your dream images. Don't forget to keep a record of them for future reference.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE INTERPRETER

To make the interpreter of reasonable length, key words have been given as often as possible. Thus one may read aggressiveness, self opinionation, dislike of criticism. In such cases, each word stands for a separate possible meaning of the dream symbol.

As many meanings as possible have been given for each symbol. These include everyday speech associations, sexual meanings, meanings suggested by the symbol’s shape and function, and its religious, philosophical and psychological significance. Therefore, in attempting to understand your own dream, you must decide for yourself which, if any, of these meanings really fit the symbol as it appears; and whether it makes sense to you, describes something you can really understand and is not just a jumble of words.

This is exactly the same as in everyday speech, where one word, such as dog, can mean very different things in different sentences. A hot-dog is not a growling dog, nor is it dog eared or even a dog-end. So context in a dream, is what gives you the specific meaning, just as it does in language.

I recommend reading the feature Gaining Insight into Your Dreams before using the dream dictionary.

Your Dream Symbols

I hope you realise that no symbol in any dream can be given one meaning. We cannot simply say that a house stands for yourself, a river for the flow of life, a baby for the infant self, etc. Not only do symbols change their meaning according to the way each dream uses them, but also, personal associations determine the symbol’s meaning. Because of this, no person other than yourself can really interpret a dream. The most they can do is to suggest a meaning that can then either be confirmed or denied from your own personal experience.

Therefore, the descriptions that accompany the symbols are suggestions. They must be pondered over to see whether they really do make your dream, and your own self, clear to you. In most cases, what is said will only be half the truth, a fraction of the meaning the dream implies. It may give but a hint. If it does only that, then I shall consider all the work of description worth while. It has often been the tiny hints other people have given in their analysis of symbols, that have helped me to at last unlock the truth in my own dreams.

The Dream Interpreter is taken from my first book on dreams - Do You Dream, written in 1971. It had a fairly large dream dictionary at the end of the book. I have revised this to bring it up to date. It is not as large and extensive as the dictionary in Dream Dictionary. But it is big and well worked out from a lot of research on my part.

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