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Dreams and Dream Symbols
I have received email asking what the symbolism in a specific dream means. For instance a frog in a dream: a frog can mean many things in a dream depending on who is dreaming it.
Symbols can be mass or individual. Some people see symbols as a way to interpret the dream of someone else. Without all the information required, an individual dream cannot be interpreted based on the symbols that appear in the dream alone.
Here are some examples of questions that show why symbols cannot be seen alone:
- How large or small was the frog?
- What colour was the frog?
- What was the frog's situation?
- How old was the dreamer, was it a child, an adult, an elderly person perhaps?
- Etc.
Symbols are not the key to interpreting your dreams. There is more to it, a lot more.
If you ask what a lion means in a dream it would first have to be determined what a lion represents to you. If someone who works at a zoo or circus has a dream of a lion it would change the meaning drastically. Perhaps someone who lives near a savanna and sees lions occasionally dreamt of one it would be entirely different than if your average city person had a dream about lions. There was one woman that associated her son to the lions in her dream. There are literally as many meanings behind symbolism as there are people that dream.
There are worlds beyond this one that are ever changing and intersecting with this one all the time. There are guides and selves helping us by giving us information all of the time. They give it many ways and dreams are just one way. However by mere symbolism you will never get the message.
If you want to begin to understand your dreams then begin by understanding your selves. In other words...not what does a frog mean according to one person who happens to write a book, but instead, ask what does a frog mean to you. The best person to interpret your dream is you, based on your own perceptions of your own experiences in any reality.
Sweet dreams,
Jacqueline Sax
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