Thanks _Barry, I’ll see if I can make time to watch this. Do you (or anyone) know if the out of print paperback book you linked to is on acid-free paper? (I have a sensitivity to old, decaying paper).
Brilliant! Watched the first hour last night. This video is amazing! Thank you for sharing it @_Barry !
Really liked what she said around the 15min mark, about Blind spots, and how dreams are constantly communicating these to us. And how difficult it is for us to interpret our own dreams because of our egos prejudices.
Also loved what she said around the 1hour13min mark about how we cannot know a human beings destiny. And how you cannot have theories on how a human being or human life should be. Thought that was really brilliant.
Also really liked what she said about Dream dictionarys, and that they can be very misleading. I have always felt this way as well, that dreams are extremely subjective and the symbols can mean completely different things for different people.
Was very eye opening in the beginning of the video, how many people said they dont value, dont find meaning, or dont remember their dreams. I think if you did that same interview today, you would get very similar results. I would be very interested in the statistical break down of the street interviews, and what the data revealed about our culture as a collective.
I love this interview. At around minute 47, when Marie-Louise is talking about where dreams come from and the center of the Self and she asks, “Is the Self dreaming of you or are you dreaming of the Self?” Both I think, at the same time (we come together inside the space of the hive).
But I think the lower level Samsaric dreams are where your unconscious habits are dresming you. And with Dreams of Clarity, its notmjust the ego, something higher is coming into play and influencing the dream. With dreams of light, because ego has dissolved, I think that may be purely something higher at play.
I’ve been taking an excellent online course in Jungian dream interpretation by Martha Crawford (link to her website). I got a couple of books she mentioned in the course materials, that are useful for the Jungian technique of dream amplification: The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images and A Dictionary of Symbols by Cirlot. Learning more about mythology can also be very useful for amplification.
Crawford’s fascinating essay Dancing in the Graveyard details how amplification works, and applies the process to a significant recurring dream of hers (towards the end of the essay synchronicity comes into play in an intriguing way).
Martha has a video dream course online that would be very useful in learning how to do dream interpretation.
There’s a wealth of material on her website (https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/), with suggested donations; her policy is “I ask people who use my services to think about what a healthy self- and other- respecting donation would be, based on their financial circumstances,” which I think is a very cool approach.
This is the central textbook for the course I’m taking. Highly recommended. The course itself has links to a huge amount of optional reading that expands on the topics discussed.
I know lucidity is more about awareness than interpretation so I’m not sure whether to engage or not, but I have to say I’m a little curious about some of the stuff that shows up in my dreams, especially in relation to health issues …
Does anyone have any experience / insight on this offering or recommmendations for books/videos on the topic? 4-week class on Dream Interpretation in Tibetan Medicine with Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya.
The more we purify our karmic traces, the more potent and divine dreams can shine through.
Part of watching our dreams like a hawk is it teaches one how to descriminate between Samsaric dreams, and dreams sent from Divine sources (angels, God, teachers, dead loved ones, etc)
Let me do some digging, and request others do as well!
Thank you for breathing new life into this thread, I think it will be a Total Grand Slam
12,000 Dreams Interpreted: A New Edition for the 21st Century
3 Authors, and about 3k good reiviews
The Divinity Code to Understanding Your Dreams and Visions
The Red Book: A Reader’s Edition (Philemon)
(Master Holecek said he was reading this one and really liked it, not sure how much it dives into dream interpretation, but have a feeling there is deep wisdom in it)
@fenwizard
What are the best Dream interpretation books that have crossed your path?
What are the top ones in the Zeitgeist?
Beloved @py_by_the_bay
have not read any of these books, but hoping others here can critique them, and add to the list.
@NightHawk999 I’m not big on dream interpretation guides where you look up the meaning of a symbol and get an answer. The dream interpretation may be right but more often than not it is wrong for you. I like Eugene Gendlin’s “Let the Body Interpret Your Dreams” because it is based on the phenomenology of your own bodily felt experience of the dream. You pose an interpretation and then get a felt sense in your body if it is right for you or not.
Another related interesting approach that I use is muscle testing (applied kinesiology). This takes a bit of skill to master self muscle testing but if you can master it you can ask questions about dreams and if the muscle is strong, that means the chi is strong and that’s a “yes” or it the muscle is weak, then it’s a “no.” Some people use this to test what foods are right for them to eat. I use it to see if the chi is strong or weak around my various dream interpretations. Or you may just be able to feel the response in your body, as Gendlin recommends.
Thank you for this, @_Barry recommended it as well. Its on my book shelf waiting in line to be read.
Love this!
I think @BlessingsDeers will appreciate this as well.
There is definitely an intuition factor in dream interpretation, bigger than I think most people realize.
brilliant! thank you for sharing!..
I am SO sensitive and practice dream register + extracting the juice, for so long, that usually I decode the dream right after, or some days after, or when I re-read the dream diary, after some months - I have come to enjoy this period of rest, and then to see it with “new eyes”… it’s also so interesting to notice the difference of different phases of our lives in the dreams… it’s fascinating for me!
