Is anyone good at dream interpratations?

[warren-kreed07.livejournal.com]

I mean I am pretty good on my own, but when I try to figure out my own I usually get mixed up. Like trying to do your own surgery, I am too personally involved.

Basically what I see is:

Breaking dishes, burning rope, a book burning, paper burning, and glass object breaking. The last thing I see before I wake up, the very moment I know I am dreaming but I am still asleep I see a bright blue light.

Any clue?

I mean I have had premonitions before. And today there was a plan crash not that far from my house at Van Nuys Airport. A few weeks before I had a bunch of dreams of a plane going down, not actually hitting the ground, but on its way into the ground.

Am I right in being worried? or am I just paranoid?

*Edit(this is as much detail as I could get from last nights dreams): The dream played in a series like the tape from The Ring. The first thing I see is a dish falling and hitting the ground and shattering. Then I see a rope, it looks like it is pulled tight but all I see is the rope across the screen I guess, and its burning and it looks like it is about to break but then it changes sceen. Then its a book and it is open and it is on fire already when I see it. Then all of a sudden i see glass things, they dont really have shapes and the just start breaking. Then for a split second I see the light and wake up.

Feeling of each sceen:
Dishes breaking-nervous
Rope burning-worried
Book burning-scared
Glass breaking-taken off gaurd
Light-(i dunno honestly, confused maybe)

Comments

[ricktboy.livejournal.com]

things breaking or burning is indicative of changes, leaving things behind... especially since you see a bright light before you wake up, I'd say it's representing a new path you're moving towards.

Or I could be completely mental, but I'm usually pretty good.

Tara
Pack Collective

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

Dreams are about context so without any given, it limits the nuances able to be applied to these objects. Your symbols seem to all denote inevitability to me though.

When interpreting your own dreams, evaluating the feelings surrounding each of the elements involved is a starting place for understanding. Does the blue light fill you with a sense of depression and despair? peace? the sense of being spotlit or of being soothed...

Also, details are never incidental. Like a friend of mine dreamt he was being paged by his old college professor, Dr Block. As the dream unfolded, it became evident that the whole theme of the dream was about dealing with the "block" he'd been having about finding the funds to return to school.

[warren-kreed07.livejournal.com]

better?

*points to post* I put in as much detail as I could remember

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

These symbols dont occur often for me so I dont have a lot of ideas to offer on them, and as ppl have said, it ultimately is always going to be more about what it means to you. The fact that the dream seems to give you a sense of everywhere you look, something is being changed or broken, could just be about expressing a general feeling of instability or uncertainty over the old giving way to the new.

Do you actually remember seeing fire in the dream when things were burning? Like the same way it looks in real life? I have never seen fire accurately portrayed visually in my dreams, though I have dreamt of fire burning several times. I thought maybe it was outside the grasp of the mind to reproduce it fully... or maybe it wasnt necessary to get the point that it is there across.

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

To me, fire represents cleansing; a burning away the old in order for the new to grow in its place. I would suppose that depends on how you felt when you saw the fire. If it appeared as something you were afraid of, the fire could still represent bringing in something new or releasing something and you are hesitant to let that happen.

I see the color blue as representing healing or water. Again, the blue light could be the healing event you are to move towards after the fire burns away whatever it needs to cleanse.

Personal interpretations, of course. Only you can know what they mean for you.

Kasia

[tahaton.livejournal.com]

Possibly more important than what books or websites or other people think, is what do you think?

For example, some people have said water in dreams is a bad thing, some say it's a good thing. More important is that for me I feel very linked to water, I am a sort of "water baby" at times, so my being in water in a dream is a good thing.

I firmly believe that if you settle and think enough about for example, the book burning, you'll be able to catch a hint of what you are scared of.

I found these ideas when googling which may help you trying to think about the symbols for yourself:

"Symbols and images don't necessarily stand out immediately when someone records or re-reads a dream. In fact, they often seem insignificant, even to people who are well aware that all elements in a dream may be quite meaningful since they were selected from a huge range of possibilities. One of the easiest ways to highlight what is special and significant about an image is to contrast it with another image that is in the same logical subset. Someone who dreamed of driving a cute red Volkswagon might be unable to articulate their sense of meaning about the car, until you ask them: "How is driving a red Volkswagon different from driving a Buick?""

"Another use of the contrast technique is to contrast the dream imagery against typical waking reality. If the symbol in the dream differs vastly from what you would expect to find in waking life, you expect the difference to be relevant. If someone dreams of chopping firewood with a butter knife, you may need to keep a straight face and ask them how that would be different from cutting firewood with an axe or saw. Only then will the light go on, and they'll see how impossible is the task they have undertaken."

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

these are great quotes :) :)

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go with the opposite of what some people have said and say that actually, some dream details are just random. Like, an image was needed, so one was just randomly borrowed. If something causes you anxiety in a dream, it could be just kind of a expression of general uneasiness or fear of losing things.

Edit(this is as much detail as I could get from last nights dreams): The dream played in a series like the tape from The Ring.

Copy the tape and get someone else to watch it before the end of the week Oh, wait, if it was in a dream, I guess you can't do that. Maybe you're doomed...

(j/k)

[tahaton.livejournal.com]

some dream details are just random.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to disclaimer that, hehe. Not all dreams are at all meaningful. A lot of the ones people here have are either nonsense, or someone's mind going over stuff that's happened that day in a very ordinary non-symbolic way.

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, the symbols in dreams arent obviously personally meaningful to the dreamer, but my experience is that there are no completely meaningless dreams-- they all serve some purpose. Even if it is to simply to provide a medium for bringing out emotions we've had but not connected with during waking life.

In my belief, the purpose of dreams, and even of nightmares, is meant by the mind to be useful, even if it is a signal of things with which we are not as comfortable. I have had dreams that seem bizarre and random in the telling that have forever altered my life for the better-- allegorically bringing clarity of understanding over the years that was leaps and bounds ahead of where I was at with some issues. ;)

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

A lot of the dreams seem related to anxiety and escaping situations. Rope - binding,
papers - records being burnt and planes going down - fear you cannot escape.

In interpreting dreams it is more important to look at the feelings you were having
during the dream, but this does seem pretty anxious.

--- Miri of Mtribe

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

*points to what tahaton said*

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

After reading your edit your dream sounds a bit random. You could have been feeling a particular emotion like anxiety and your mind plugged in various expressions of this emotion. Emotion taking a form.