Understanding Your Dreams
Learn more about dreams, how to interpret your dreams, why your dreams useful, why it’s worth bothering to interpret them, and also a little bit about how you can help yourself remember your dreams if it’s something that you don’t always remember.
Why dreams are important?
There’s a couple of different perspectives on this, and one of them is the Hawaiian perspective. From a Hawaiian perspective, the dream is a message from the higher self. Hawaiians had the concept of the three selves and the four bodies. I’m gonna focus on the three selves for this purpose.
Three selves and four bodies
The higher self is your connection to the source, your connection to the divine. It is also trustworthy, like a trustworthy guardian parental spirit, and the higher self has messages for us. The higher self will help us if we ask for it. It won’t interfere if we don’t, and it has a direct line of communication with the unconscious mind.
The unconscious mind is the mind that really is about the zone of keeping you alive. It also looks after your memories and represents your memories when you need them representing it, and it is in communication with the higher self. Your unconscious mind probably finished evolving when you were about seven, so some of the thought processes of it are not as logical as our conscious minds here would like.
It tends to think symbolically, so our dreams are symbolic. Now the unconscious mind talks directly to the conscious mind, or if you like the conscious mind talks directly to the unconscious mind because the conscious mind is the director of the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is in theory, at least driving the bus, but there’s no direct link between the higher self and the conscious mind, or messages from the higher self come via the unconscious mind.
From a neurological perspective, there’s a really good reason for this. The unconscious mind processes so much more quickly than the conscious mind. The conscious mind processes in seconds. The unconscious mind processes in nanoseconds so if the higher self wants a message to come through quickly, then the unconscious mind is the place to send it, so that’s the model of the three souls and the four bodies.
Hawaiian model of dreams
From a Hawaiian perspective, your dreams are messages from the highest self that comes into the unconscious mind, highly symbolic, and the unconscious mind then sends it to the conscious mind to interpret. In the Hawaiian tradition, dreams were a really important part of the healing process, dreams, what would happen is that you’d go to the Kahuna with a problem, and the Kahuna would tell you to go off and dream.
They will ask you to come back when you’d had a dream and tell them what your dream was. So you’d go off, you’d have your dream. You’d come to the kahuna. You’d tell the kahuna the dream, and he or she would help you interpret it so that you could get a real good understanding of what needed to happen, and so that healing could happen, or you could take the necessary actions that you needed to take, whatever it was that was the message of the dream.
Jungian and Freudian perspective
From a Jungian and Freudian perspective, dreams are the “royal road to the unconscious.” If you think of it from a Jungian, particularly a Freudian perspective, if you take out the higher self, the dreams are a better way of improving this connection between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. They’re away from the unconscious mind getting messages to the conscious mind. Dreams are a form of a message.
Now, sometimes dreams may be predictive, so it’s sort of like future foretelling, or they may be simply a message. They may be something that you wanna get some clarity on. It’s important that we have a way of interpreting our dreams. For most of us going to the dream book to interpret our dreams, isn’t really what you wanna be doing. It is much easier if you have a nice fast process so that you can interpret them when you want, without having to dig out the book and discover that serpents are about teeth or sex or whatever it happens to be.
What about if you don’t remember your dreams?
Now most of us have dreams. There is a very, very rare condition where you don’t remember your dreams. Most of us remember it and there’s a couple of ways that you can do this.
Ask yourself. Do I have a limiting decision that in some way stops me from dreaming?
Set an intention. Tell yourself before you go to sleep, “I want to remember my dreams.” You can even if you believe there’s a limiting decision. You can use one of the Huna release processes that I teach to let go of the limiting decision that it’s not okay, or the limiting belief that it’s not okay for you to remember your dreams, and the more you do this practise that I’m about to teach you, the more you will remember them.
Write it down. Have a little notebook beside your bed, or it could be your iPhone. Record the main points of your dream. We all dream but some forget what they dream about. If you wake up and you have even the smallest smidgen of a dream, write it down. The more you write it down, the more you’ll start to remember. The more the memory will develop, and when you write it down, write even that tiny, tiny thing through this process that I’m going to teach you.
Now, another thing about this process I’m gonna teach you is that you can also use it on your waking experiences, because certainly from a Huna perspective, your sleeping dreams and your waking experiences are the same. You can take a waking experience and interpret it in exactly the same way as you can interpret a sleep dream.
Table 1
The thing to do is set up a page with three columns. The first column is the main point of the dream. Collect the main points of the dream. In the example shown above, I’ve got a dream and the main point of the dream is I was standing and there was this plum hanging off a tree, and suddenly this fairy appeared. I don’t know where this fairy came from, but this fairy was holding this teeny, teeny, teeny, teeny, teeny locked box. Those are the main points of my dream.
If for example, you only had one thing you remembered and that is your friend Joe, who you hadn’t seen for five years, your bullet point would be Joe, haven’t seen her for five years, or it could be a baby, and perhaps there would be a few points that you might remember about Joe or about the baby. They would make up column one.
Column two is for the meaning of each main point of your dream. So in the example, I’m using a plum. What does a plum mean for me? A plum for me is the juiciness of life. So in column two, I will put juiciness of life or juiciness. For the fairy, it’s magical, but you have to treat fairies with a bit of caution. Then there’s this teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny locked box. What is the significance of a tiny locked box? Well, in this case, the fact that it’s tiny, doesn’t have much significance. It’s a fairy, so it would be a tiny box, but it’s hidden secrets, that’s what a locked box signifies for me.
After filling out each point, decide what context do you want to interpret your dream in? You could interpret it in many different contexts that you want. You can interpret dreams in the context of relationship, money, spiritual development, health and vitality, business and career, and family and friends. Usually, what we do is interpret in one context and that context could be life itself.
For this example, let us interpret the dream in the context of the career. In the context of a career, the meaning of juiciness is financial and emotional satisfaction. Magical and treat with caution is all about trusting sources while treating with caution means beware of muggles. Beware of the people who will criticise or try and pull me off the path. The last one is hidden secrets which means deeper knowledge.
In my third column, I have financial and emotional satisfaction. I have the trusting source, beware of muggles, and I have deeper knowledge. If I was to put all that together as a message, what would the message be? If I want financial and emotional satisfaction in my career, I need to trust the source. I need to be aware of those people who would pull me off my path, who would criticise me, who would distract me, and I need to bring deeper knowledge and exploration.
That is very simply how you connect with the source, how you connect with the message of your dreams, and how you can interpret them straightforwardly. If you want help interpreting your dreams, book a consultation with me at secretartofhuna.com/diary. I can walk you through the process, show you how to use the process in more detail. I really encourage you to play with it and use it.
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