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Decoding Your Dreams: A Guide To Understanding Symbols

Demystifying Your Dreams Dreams are the dress rehearsal. Real life is the performance. Your dreams are narratives crafted by your own mind. They are far more engagi...

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Understanding The Fundamentals Of Dream Interpretation

There are three fundamental principles to understand the world of dreams. 1. Subconscious Knowledge Each individual subconsciously knows what their d...

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Journeys Out Of The Body

Some of the earliest research into OBEs was conducted by Frenchman Yarm Louis Forham (1884-1917), who believed that everyone was capable of astral travel in a variety of guises, re...

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Journey Of The Soul: Mystical Experiences In Sleep

Dreams Beyond Dreams: Mystical Experiences Recalled as Dreams Not all dreams are merely dreams. According to author Stase Michaels, a dream serves as a bridge between our nightly ...

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Do Dreams Have Meaning?

There is an ongoing debate about whether dreams are a vehicle for messages or merely random by-products of the brain. Both sides of the argument are briefly summarized here. The O...

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Decoding The Dream Realm: What Processes Are At Work In Our Minds?

In the most straightforward terms, dreaming is the process through which your brain processes and consolidates memories. This information is encoded into easily retrievable symbols...

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Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) was an Austrian psychiatrist who developed a personality theory referred to as individual psychology. He was at one time closely associated with Sigmund ...

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Working With Dream Images

All dream images have a symbolic message. The ones that are the most startling are the fear images. We have many fears we have suppressed from childhood on, and these are free to s...

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Symbols

Unlocking the Meaning of Dreams and Embracing Your Vision for the Future When we close our eyes at night and drift into slumber, our inner world awakens. In the depths of ou...

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How To Remember Your Dreams

When beginning the steps towards interpreting your dreams, many people find it helpful to keep a notebook – a dream journal, if you will – right next to your bed with a pen or ...

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Dreaming Of Seeing An Apple

Dreaming of Seeing an Apple Dreaming of Eating an Apple Dreaming of Picking Apples Dreaming of Seeing a Rotten Apple Dreaming of Seeing an Apple Tree Dream...

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Interpreting Sexual Dreams

Consider a recent dream you've had. You may recall who was present, where it occurred, or what transpired. The storyline might not be entirely clear, and that's okay. Dreams se...

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Opening Ourselves To The Dream

Understanding Dream Interpretation: Jungian Theory and Symbolic Meaning The Way Station In this dream, I find myself in a rest area, like a way station, possibly along a highway ...

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Creativity And Problem Solving In Dreams

Dreams, while rarely problem-solving or creative by themselves, can sometimes offer profound insights or solutions. This article explores the unique function of dreams as a process...

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Adaptive Theory

Adaptive theory speculates that species-wide sleep patterns developed as a way of adapting to the environment. Grazing animals, for example, sleep relatively few hours a day in sho...

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Anthropology Of Dreams

Anthropology has contributed considerably to the cross-cultural understanding of dreams. The earliest anthropological research on dreams, which dates back to the end of the ninetee...

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A Fast Track To The Meaning Of Your Dreams

This is a first glance at a quick method to analyze your dreams in five easy steps, as summarized below. Further details about each step follow in Chapters 3 through 7. Discoverin...

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Dream Types

“I can never decide whether my dreams are a result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. It is very queer. But my dreams make conclusions for me. They ...

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How Can You Decode Dreams? Exploring The Systematic Approach To Dream Analysis

The DREAMS 1-2-3 System of Dreamwork: A Detailed Approach Step 1: Deconstructing the Dream The DREAMS 1-2-3 system offers a structured method to decode ...

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Zhuangzi

One night, Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly, fluttering and floating about, enjoying its freedom. He was utterly unaware of his identity as Zhuangzi. As the butterfly, he felt n...


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