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Interpreting dreams is an immersive affair.  If you really want to understand and gain helpful insight from a dream, dabbling in the shallow waters around the edges of the dream isn’t going to take you there. Playing with one symbol from your dream isn’t going to take you there. Meditating upon the dream and emerging with an intuitive understanding isn’t going to take you the whole way there.

All of these approaches are important, the dabbling, the teasing of symbols, the meditation, but they are insufficient alone.

Accurate dream interpretation involves a series of approaches, like nibbling away at a puzzle, solving this part, then that, making discoveries, making counter-discoveries, abandoning several early ideas about the meaning of the dream, gradually getting closer to seeing the whole big picture meaning of the dream as well as its many resonating levels. It’s not until you’ve applied all the approaches that you really hit home.

But it’s not a random nibbling away. It works best when you follow certain systematic steps.

Yet though you’re following systematic steps, many of those steps may not seem logical. Some of the steps ask you to abandon logic and follow precise but perhaps mysterious instructions, surrendering to the process where the seemingly miraculous occurs: sudden insight that feels so accurate that goose bumps run across your skin and you exhale a deep knowing Aha.

When I decided to create my How to interpret your dreams step-by-step course, I organised the approaches that I use, many of which I have developed and refined over the decades, into a series of systematic steps that you can follow to arrive at the meaning of your dreams.

My previous training as a scientist and my decades of experience in teaching and training students to become dream therapists came in extra handy here. No matter how much I adore dancing with the mysteries as I work with dreams, the point of it all is to come away with a valuable bottom line: This, this here, is what your dream means, and this, this here, is how you can use this information to enhance your life.

So I created the Dream Interpretation Chart. As you go through the course, I guide you through the steps, I prompt you when to write information and answers on your chart. When you have finished all the steps, you have your interpretation captured on your Dream Interpretation Chart.

Do this for a number of dreams and you end up with a veritable treasure trove of charts, an archive of dream interpretations and meaningful insights to look back and reflect upon.  You also end up enjoying the positive changes that meaningful dream interpretation brings into your life.

Ask Jane Teresa about a dream