Our dreams are a portal into the deepest layers of our psychology and identity. No exaggeration: they enable you to map out your subconscious mind.

Unfortunately, we’ve been brainwashed into thinking that they are nothing but random neural firings, and most people never develop the capacity to decode them and exploit them to understand their own hidden inner pain and their own unrealised potential. 

We’re not taking advantage of the dream world, this remarkable gift we’re given every night. 

So, today we talk about dream analysis. We’ll look at how to record your dreams and start analysing them. We’ll look at the exact elements you need to look for to understand and decode your dreams. And we’ll learn what these elements point to in your psychology.

Do you want to understand the mysterious world of dreams and learn the secrets that almost nobody knows?

Why Do Dream Analysis?

As I said, dreams are a portal into the deepest layers of your own psychology, into the stranger that is yourself.

• They show you your untapped potential,
• They show you parts of yourself that you deny to the death,
• Doing dream analsis helps you lucid dream,
• It helps you undo patterns that might be painful and uncomfortable.

How to Do It

This takes some practice, but with time you should be able to intuit their meaning. It’ll strike you.

Method of recording: every morning after waking, write them down. Not in crazy detail, just the essentials. We forget our dreams quickly, so do this within 30 minutes. Do a month of writing down your dreams every morning.

Under our paradigm, dreams are an expression of repressed desires, wishes, emotions. Think of it as unfulfilled or unexpressed psychological material.

Dreams are allegories that conceal a deeper meaning: this repressed material. In an allegory or myth or legend, you need to look beyond the precise details to contact the overall spirit or message. It’s all metaphorical, to various levels. The same goes with dreams.

The key is to look for certain features.

Your behaviour, speech, emotions: look for what you are able to express freely in dreams. This is repressed, but not hugely repressed. You find it disagreeable in everyday life, but agreeable enough to own it in your dreams.

Others’ behaviour (there are no others): look for what others express. This is your own psychological material. It’s more repressed than the previous category, and causes you more pain and dysfunction.

Emotional tone: scene, colours, clothes, time of day, etc etc. Pay attention to the overall atmosphere of the space and the dream. It all points to different aspects of your mind. Open spaces with a sacred feel reflect expansion and peace, while dark enclosed spaces reflect contractions and fears. Don’t get too lost in the details though.

Examples of Dream Analysis

Let’s start with very basic, common examples. But even though some of these are quite obvious, you must match it up to your daily life. If there is a huge gap between your dream world and your daily behaviours, it means there’s a lot of unexpressed desires.

Warning: don’t get obsessed with these examples of use them like a recipe. You have to go through the process. Even the typical dreams have endlessly many variations, each with their own message.

1. Sexual encounters: most likely result from your unexpressed sexual desires. As I say, if you’re expressing it, it’s not so repressed, just under the surface; if others express it, either towards you or towards others in the dream, it’s pretty repressed.
   If you are about to express sexual desire in daily life without fear or embarrassment or repression, the dream isn’t so important. If you can’t, it shows you that your daily life is hiding this, imprisoning you. Look at your daily life.
   
2. Attacking or Being Attacked: this is various forms of repressed anger and aggression. If you’re attacking someone, it’s just under the surface; if you’re being attacked, it’s fairly repressed, and it’s probably causing you pain in daily life.

3. Seeing Old Friends: need for intimacy and contact, perhaps unresolved regret. Again, look closely at your speech and behaviour in the dream. What do you express that you usually don’t? Perhaps you feel lonely in daily life, or that you can’t express your love for others.

Once you’ve been writing dreams down for a few weeks, you’ll notice broader patterns in your dream life, such as:

Patterns and repetitions: dreams repeat over and over again.
Life themes: these patterns reflect the currents of your life.
Character traits: they point to deep aspects of your character that may have been repressed for years, even decades.

Mistakes in Dream Analysis

Looking outside for the meaning: in my opinion, when you have enough self-awareness, the meaning of your dreams become quite obvious. They aren’t imposed; you create them. They aren’t messages being sent to you, they’re self-generated.

Using dream symbol books: I just don’t think this is very sophisticated or personal enough.The small details aren’t the most important. Understand the main themes and work to reintegrate those emotions and desires, and then perhaps look for the small details.

Trusting too much in premonitions: I think it’s seductive to believe that dreams are premonitions. We have several dreams every night, and mostly they’re not premonitions. I think they sometimes can be, but most of the time they’re an expression of repressed material. Even if they are premonitions, usually these are personal in nature: related to some fear or desire, and we could interpret it as underground desires or fears.

All right, so remember the challenge I set you! Write down your dreams every morning for an entire month and start trying to glean the meaning from them.

This takes practice and effort, but eventually you’ll start to intuit the meaning of your dreams and see the power of what we’re doing.