Interesting! So I have a question for you @aprilangel - do you know how the art of dream interpretation was born? And more specifically, how were these dream interpretations created? I can definitely understand most of the psycho-logic behind a variety of these, I'm more so curious how the art form begin as clearly they're working with a subjective dream reality and churning those into objective findings.
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My teacher, Michael Sheridan, is from Ireland and learned from the man who developed this method there. The man who's name is George Rhatigan (still alive), used to work as a police detective when he developed severe arthritis in his ankle and had to take off for 6 months. I'm piecing this all together from the tid-bits on google, what I've heard and what I've read. I think it must have been during this time that he learned how to heal the arthritis with energy healing bc he cured himself. "Then he went on to learn hypnotherapy in England and specialised in cancer, phobias and genetic disorders. He practiced meditation, developed his psychic intuition and was shown the secret of dream analysis. The intuition which he once used to solve crime he now uses to understand the mysteries of the sub-conscious mind. His speciality is healing by getting to the cause of the illness which he can do in super-quick time."
From the story I've heard from MY teacher, he tells that George asked for the dreams of people he did hypnotherapy regressions with. He noticed a common theme that ran through all of his patients dreams who had certain issues, for example, cancer patients all shared symbols like rats, mice, worms, snakes, rust etc. His detective mind, plus a growing intuition caused him to piece these "clues" together and understand the symbology of dreams. He wrote a book that I can't find for purchase online (unless you pay $85, thanks Amazon) but I borrowed it from my teacher. It's very good to explain how SO much of dreams use pun and metaphors. It makes sense that bible language like Jesus used was so metaphorical. And Revelations. This seems to be the language of the soul (I'm not bible thumping here). It requires a lot of right-brain work to let go of logic and chronology to get to the symbolic meaning of a dream. For example, I recently analyzed a dream for someone who is pregnant (only 7 weeks along) and afraid of damage to the developing fetus due to high fever from having the flu and taking lots of tylenol to lower the fever. She had a dream that she had a miscarriage, lots of blood in a toilet but felt relieved after because she could take a beach vacation with her family. Even though this dream strikes even MORE fear into a worried heart once our conscious mind wakes up and gets ahold of it, symbolically the relief was a GOOD sign. The dream was telling her to eliminate (toilet) her fears of miscarriage and let her know she could relax (feel relief) regarding those fears. Seems awful to dream of a miscarriage when you fear it in reality, but the resulting relief was the guidance to just relax. Everything is okay.
Many dream symbols are subjective but MANY MORE are universal to us all because we are all connected through the collective unconscious and so big events or meanings related to a symbol can be applied to us all. The soul understands what a symbol means in the dream state because it is the natural language it communicates with when it is not confined to the physical body.
Wow, thanks for sharing all of this. That definitely makes a lot of sense to me. These types of spiritual analysis gifts tend to come in similar ways that you've mentioned.
Last year I went to Peru and experienced ayahuasca for the first time. I found it interesting how this spirit also communicates in symbols and metaphors combined with emotion. Personally, it seems to be much more effective to do so as words can only go so far, and when you're dealing with the deep stuff, it needs to be convey from a meta-level / higher level language.
Very cool stuff here. I'm intrigued! Thank you for sharing this @aprilangel :)
I did ayahuasca in Peru too! I would LOVE to have the clairvoyance I experienced during those few hours. I had no idea what to do with the symbols as they seemed to be responses to the sounds I was hearing around me. My boyfriend at the time was there and was being physically active whereas I couldn't even open my eyes, let alone get up. When he spoke, the feelings and responses I had didn't make sense but felt lovely. He was saying it was time to go home and I was like "we ARE home" "there's no such thing as time" and I was laughing (in a weird way because my body was so distant) but was completely agnostic at the time and had no idea that these concepts were very high level truths that were being gifted to me.
I'd love to do it again with my current awareness. And I'd love to hear your experiences as well.
lol I love this:
I felt similar things. The most evident to me were 1) I am a child when compared to greater spectrum, 2) everything is interconnected and our physical reality is interwoven with the spiritual realm that I was experiencing consciously at the time, and 3) the earth is important and the peruvian shamans were my ancestral connection to it. In that I also saw the image of a tree with the Peruvians being the roots and extending into me (the trunk).
I also really do want to go again and I know I will!
The Peruvian roots, brilliant! I loved these insights.
Oh and also, you may be aware of this already but if not - your site seems to be down: http://www.dreamanalyze.me/
I was NOT aware of this, I'm thinking I need a new one in the future anyway (with my name as the site's name) but thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'll let @codydeeds (my tech guru) know. ;)
Awesome. I'm sure it'll be an easy fix. So glad I randomly noticed that!