6 tips for correctly interpreting dreams

Learn to understand the messages of your unconscious in a responsible and personalized way

Dreams are a gateway to the subconscious and there is no shortage of generalist interpretations out there. However, there are some techniques to correctly – and in a personal way – understand what they are trying to tell us while we sleep.

One of the methods of psychoanalysis, for example, is to keep a dream diary. To this end, Priscila Charbonnières, founder of Soulloop, astrologer and life coach with more than 20 years of experience, shares 6 tips on how to interpret your dreams in a responsible and personalized way. Watch!

1. Schedule yourself before bed

Before going to sleep, while you are in bed, take a deep breath. Relax your whole body, let your muscles melt into the mattress and focus all your attention on your abdomen as you breathe. So, before you go to sleep you think of a question and ask to dream that question. This is an exercise that helps you have more contact with your dreams and your subconscious. When you wake up, write down what you dreamed.

2. Get up slowly when you wake up

When you wake up, avoid starting any activity. Keep your eyes closed for about 5 minutes, between sleep and wakefulness, to let the images and sensations of the dream continue. It is at this time that the brain is in alpha and that we can access images and the subconscious.

3. Observe the feeling the dream brings you

What emotions prevailed in this dream? This is a very important part. This is the answer, the rest yes symbolism. If the dream brought you that emotion, it is because you have to face it, you have to digest something.

4. Be aware of dream images and symbols

In addition to looking at the images and symbols, look for your personal and emotional connections with those symbols. “For example, I dreamed of a dog and, for me, the dog means welcome, family and fun. But for someone else it could mean threat, fear, loss,” the astrologer teaches. Give meaning to the symbols that appear in your dreams. These are the correct answers, because the symbol has a different meaning for each person.

5. Realize whether the dream is trivial or symbolic

The dream that comes from the unconscious, from the mundane, brings information that you were unable to process during the previous day or week. “We do not we record in the brain everything we observe, our mind is not capable of storing all the information,” says the expert.

Therefore the information is stored in the unconscious and during dreams appears through symbols and images depending on the area of ​​the brain in which we are working. Only you will know whether it is a symbolic or banal dream. The symbolic comes from the soul, has more meaning, is deeper and more important to you.

6. Keep and revisit a dream journal

It is important to keep an updated dream diary and revisit it frequently. Sometimes, the day you write down your dream, you are still very much involved in it. After a while, things may happen that will make you understand an old dream or even realize one another perspective for that old dream that must bring enormous clarity.

By Marina Marques

Source: Terra

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