The Importance of understanding your Dreams

Aloha everyone, I am Rev. Vai and I wrote the book "Dream Analysis Handbook" and want to share with you the importance of understanding your dreams.

First of all a dream is your unconscious mind trying to communicate with your conscious mind. The unconscious mind will choose metaphors that you might grasp to represent what it is trying to tell you. Every dream you have is a report of the state of your unconscious mind. Before you begin understanding your dreams the UC mind will toss out things in your dreams to get your attention.

It is very important to understand recurring dreams because your unconscious mind obviously thinks it is important enough for it to repeat this metaphorical dream in hopes that you might finally get the meaning of it. Once you finally understand the meaning of a recurring dream you most likely won't ever have it again, because the message of the unconscious mind has been received and understood. The unconscious mind can then move on to the next topic it wants to communicate to you about.

When you first start to understand your dreams,your unconscious mind jumps for joy, and then goes "Well hey what about this...?" So your unconscious conscious mind will search your personal history and language and come up with a dream that it hopes that you can understand too. Although each person has their own personal history and intelligence that is unique to them, most dreams are based on the same stock of metaphors.

For instance a house or building represents the shape of your psyche, or unconscious mind. You will want to take notice of the age, shape, color and emotional feeling you have about the house. Each thing the brain picks for you to 'see" is not a random choice, it was chosen to try to tell you something. Take for instance, you might find yourself in a gray, old house that looks like your grandmothers, but it is falling apart and in disuse and you want to leave it. That would read as the part of your mind that adapted in it's thinking process about who you had to be, to be around your grandmother as a child. But that old adaptation is not longer serviceable and you are not comfortable as an adult to continue to think or adapt as you did as a child around your grandmother.

Well, that was a mouthful for one sentence and that is just an short example of how when you take notice of your dreams you can un-weave the adaptations and patterns that no longer serve your highest good. Most likely this short dream may be followed with the collapse or burning down of this old structure of your psyche- the gray grandmothers house. Because when old patterns or adaptations no longer serve you they are terminated and destroyed. This follow up dream in which you have gone from one subject to a progression of action, the burning down or collapse of the old thinking structure, the second dream would be what we call a progressive dream. Hence, all the dreams you have thereafter, are usually "progressive" in nature. This is your unconscious mind attempting to communicate with your conscious mind so that you may progress as an whole entity.

Nightmares where structures are burning down, planes crashing, people being maimed and killed, having kinky sex with strangers, flying, being naked in church, are all great signs of progress of your unconscious mind. However, if you don't understand them they can be very disturbing to your awakened mind, until you do understand them. Then both the conscious and unconscious mind can breathe together a sigh of relief as a united force. The old adaptations and programs of the unconscious mind are acknowledged, accepted, processed and then released.

Dream analysis is a wonderful self help tool to unraveling the unconscious mind so that the conscious mind can function more harmonically and for the highest good of the whole self.
Good luck to you all, sleep well, dream progressively.
Aloha Rev. Keala Vai