#dream interpretation

[foggy-heads]

Delivering for the wolf woman

illustrated a piece of a dream i head tonight about turning into a werewolf, from the perspective of a guy who brought me food

he probably saw me run on all fours through the streets a night after

[theoptia]

C.G. Jung, from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 12; “Psychology and Alchemy”

Text ID: The way is not straight, but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream motifs always return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center.

[sennamaticart]

A reoccurring dream I've been having.

[my-quirk-is-fred]

[thehmn]

I believe dreams are generally worth interpreting but not in a magical way, more in a “what stress factor does the monster in my dream represent” way, or you might just be dreaming of hospitals because you have a doctors appointment or whatever. It doesn’t have to be that deep. I don’t believe that symbols in dreams are universal either. Depending on your life a frog might mean money if you grew up with frogs meaning wealth or it might mean something that disgust you or something you want to protect.

But to this day I’m still really bad at interpreting really positive dreams where I wake up feeling happy and relaxed. Like for example, there are two YouTubers who have nothing to do with each other and their content isn’t even close to related but if I dream about them being a couple it’s going to be nice relaxing dream. In waking life I don’t even put them in the same box in my head aside from mostly watching their videos during my break at work. So my best guess is that together they just represent relaxation to me.

I think I just don’t have enough positive dreams (loads of neutral ones tho) so I don’t have as much experience interpreting them in relation to my waking life. But I’m a very vivid dreamer so dream interpretation is very fun for me.

[cloverapple]

An ineloquent journal entry about dreams and what they have to do with reality shifting/manifesting

Still thinking about dreams and how the heccccc they relate to shifting. I used to believe dreams had nothing to do with it, because I was in that strict law-of-assumption-is-everything mindset,, where dreams were just dreams, meaningless, and if you gave them meaning, it was only because you decided they did.

But the more I think about it now, the more I can’t ignore it. Dreams are too strange, too specific, too… *something*… to discard sometimes. And the thing is, I believe they (like sleep itself) are just another level of awareness, and awareness moves in layers. Awake, daydreaming, hypnagogia, hypnopompia, SP, lucid dreaming, etc , they’re all sliding scales of the same thing: awareness.

And awareness is everything (in my current opinion). You experience all of reality through awareness. Even if you believe in the multiverse theory, what guarantees that you experience those other realities in the first place is awareness. Take away your awareness of something, and there’s nothing to experience, meaning you can no longer experience that thing.

Sooo it’s the constant ; the screen of space in front of us right now, the lens through which all existence is filtered. It’s not just what you see in the physical world, but also imagination, memory, perception. Everything you can experience, dream, or imagine is mediated by awareness through awareness,,,, because it’s all IN awareness.

That’s why dreams hold such information. They’re a glimpse into the deeper layers of consciousness, the layers where all possibilities already exist. If every reality already exists, then the information we seek is already within us. We contain it all (hence “you’re the source! the creator!” says every loa blog to exist, me included)

And now I’m starting to think dreams are like future memories— or more like ,, fragments n remnants bleeding backwards from something you already are, something you already did, because awareness isn’t in time. You are awareness, and everything (your imagination, your DRs, your past, your future, the answers you seek) already exists inside you. You’ve been cosplaying someone clueless because your conditioned reality trained you to stay blind.

If awareness is the medium through which knowledge is experienced,, then all insight, all understanding, all perception must originate within it. There is no external source delivering truth to us; it arises because awareness itself contains, or at least can access, all possibilities. Every idea, every memory, every “a-ha” moment is just awareness reflecting on itself. In that sense, awareness is the container, the engine, and the origin of all that can be known. Without awareness, knowledge has no stage to exist on, no reality to be recognized in. It is inseparable from the one who experiences it.

Which is why I now believe people when they say dreams have meaning. If all is awareness, dreams are another screen showing you what’s possible, what’s coming, what’s already yours.

I remember the weirdest dream I’ve ever had a few weeks before I learned how to control my shifting. My name wasn’t Clover in my DR back then; it was my real name in this reality. (Let’s call me Evie for example bc, well... close enough).

I dreamt (dreamed? what is english) I was standing in a massive field of clovers. Oceans and oceans of green leaves. My DR father was there too. He’s dead in that other reality, but in the dream, he was alive. For context, he’s a genius, knows all there is to know about shifting, states, reality creation, physics, everything.

He looks at me and says: “The moment you find a clover, you’ll shift, and everything will change.”

So I start hunting in the dream, obsessing, tearing through the grass for a four-leaf clover. I can’t find one, of course. Could I do anything right those days? I get frustrated and yank a three-leaf clover from the ground, ripping the leaves off, mutilating it.

He watches me, puts a hand on my shoulder, and says: “Clover, what are you doing?”

I look at him, confused: “Who’s Clover?” because my name is Evie.

He then says: “No. You’re Clover. Why are you plucking pieces out of yourself?”

And it hits me in that moment: that he never told me to find a four-leaf clover. He said find a clover. And I already had it. I was holding it the whole time. Deep regret washes over me for mutilating the poor clover and yanking its leaves off. So I decide to fix it and make it perfect again.

I close my eyes and repeat over and over in the dream: “design, construct, produce, create” (still don’t know what that means btw). I open my eyes, expecting the clover to transform into a four-leaf, but it’s the same three-leaf one from before. I look up, and my father is gone. I was alone.

When I woke up, I decided to change my DR name to Clover. At the time, that was the only takeaway from the dream, “just change your name.”

Two weeks later, I shifted for the first time on purpose, and I failed to miss the irony. Looking back now, I see the whole lesson. I was searching for something I already had. The shift wasn’t out there; but it was here. When I realized, logically, that night: “Wait, none of this makes sense. If I already have the basic ability to shift, there’s no reason I can’t shift tonight,” I did. Everything fell into place.

The dream told me how to shift and that I was looking for the answer outside of myself what I already possessed it inside. So if dreams don’t have meaning beyond what we give them,, what the fuuuuuck was that.

That’s why I believe dreams are more than nonsense you give meaning to at will. When you dream of your DR, it’s not just “you gave it meaning so now it matters.” It’s awareness showing you what’s possible. It’s a prelude to creation, a glimpse into what you can manifest.

So from my perspective now, dreams have answers.

Logically, we already know everything because everything arises from awareness. We are the source of all things. The answers are already inside us. Dreams tap into the deeper layers where knowledge already exists in our consciousness, leading us, showing us what’s possible, confirming that our imagined desires can become real, and......sometimes, they tell us exactly what to do.

There’s no harm in analyzing them, and it just might be that there’s profound value in paying attention to what they tell you.

[arayapendragon]

what draws the line between dreams and reality? in other words, how do we know dreams aren't real? my honest take on how most dreams are shifts

you might want to listen to caribbean blue by enya while reading this post, trust me on this one.

in light of my recent conversation with @masoncantthinkofaname, i have come to realize something, which you hopefully resonate with. according to "science", it is believed that our dreams are our minds processing the world, our memories, our fears, thoughts, and our perception of reality through a series of vivid images. i, as an avid dreamer, believe there's more to this.

it is believed by native-american indigenous people, that while we sleep, our soul leaves our body and visits the dream realm. now hang on, i haven't just pulled this out of anywhere - i have my sources:

manari ushigua is the political and spiritual leader of the sápara, an indigenous nation in the ecuadorian and peruvian amazon. the sápara people, who are now very few in number, are a culturally rich community and guardians of the rainforest, who focus heavily on dream work and interpretation. the sápara word makihaunu refers to the dream world, and is a huge aspect of their practices because they view it as a bridge between the material and spirit world. i would recommend watching a few videos which i've linked below explaining more about the dream world. source #1: why do we dream? source #2: the role of the dream world source #3: what happens when we go sleep source #4: dreaming and parallel universes source #5: dreams bridge the physical and spirit world source #6: we cannot have fear in the dream world

many other cultures and traditions such as shamanism, taoism, and hinduism also strongly believe that during our sleep, we always have an out-of-body experience (often referred to our soul or consciousness leaving our physical body to travel the dream realm). what if isn't our soul, but our awareness transcending this realm (or reality) and exploring other realms? think about it - whether you believe in the multiverse theory or consciousness theory, both theories revolve around the fact that we can perceive any reality.

why? well, there are realities that feel like dreams, realities that have no logic and make no sense, and realities where we aren't fully grounded so our senses are clouded, and so much more. in short, we don't know anything.

mason and i agreed that there's more to shifting than what's often discussed. so, needless to say, someone can't decide whether something you experienced is a shift or not. for you, as the experiencer, are the only one who can define your experience. with me so far? if you had a dream which felt oddly shift-like.. then.. you most likely did shift. there are obviously many realities which function like dreams, and we're so used to dreaming that we don't realize it might in fact be a reality. so how do you really know it was a dream? how do you know you didn't shift?

chances are, you most likely woke up after having a clear and vivid dream that felt so real you were convinced you shifted.

i've always wondered, what if dreams aren't just our subconscious relaying perceived information to us, what if they're not just our experience and our ideas, or our fantasies and desires? what if they're not just our worst fears revealing themselves to us? what do we really know about dreaming? how do we know its just our brain showing us a sequence of imagery? and how is that even possible when dreams feel so real? all of my 5 senses work in my dreams, even my intuitive perception. can it be a coincidence that they feel so real? most times, we are so engrossed in our dreams that we truly believe it's real life and that we aren't in a dream.

in fact, dreaming hasn't actually been objectively proven or explained by science. science has explained different states experienced during dreams such as REM and the emission of theta waves. however, we don't actually know what the dreamer experiences unless we are the dreamer ourselves. there's plenty psychological explanations for it, but there are no solid explanations for dreaming, except for EEG's and measurements of brain activity to indicate we are having one. someone can recollect their dream and write it down but does that really count as evidence if we can't see someone else's dream? this leads me to believe the world doesn't just stop at science and that there's many things that will most likely never be proven or entirely explained. think about it, the vast majority of the world's population dreams, and even lucid dreams, yet there's no fully proven explanation for it. "but araya, i had a dream where i was fighting a half-shark half-dinosaur mutant with feathers and popcorn for eyes, and my teeth were falling out!" well, you know the consciousness theory right? our assumptions create reality. or should i say our conscious thoughts create our reality. well what if in our "dreams" - it is our subconscious creating our reality? this video explains that when we as consciousness or pure awareness depart our physical body, then the experience and perception of this current reality ceases to exist at that moment, and is practically nonexistent to us. therefore, when we are aware of our "dreams", we perceive that reality as real and objective to us. when we wake up? our perception of that dream loses its reality and we are once again objectively aware of this three-dimensional/cubic reality.

i'm not saying all shifts are dreams, and that all dreams are shifts. but i know there are many here who have grown increasingly suspicious of their dreams and are starting to question them, even considering the possibility that they shifted. what's important is that you define your experiences without any external negative influences.

the next time you have an unusually realistic and vivid dream, even about a reality you want to shift to, maybe consider that the dream was most likely a shift.

"so the world goes round and round with all you ever knew they say the sky high above is caribbean blue

if every man says all he can if every man is true do i believe the sky above is caribbean blue"

would you rather believe what the world tells us, or would you label your experiences based on how you perceive them? happy shifting 🩷