What if the only difference between a dream state and physical life are in the conditions and governing laws ?

Could there be an underlying denominator that unifies dream and waking hours?

In your dream, you never really die. What if what you are never really die in reality too?

If you understand that your true nature is deathless, will your priority in life change? By True Nature, I am not taking about you as a physical person…

Is it possible to have liberation without some form of renunciation?

Is it possible to engage in the madness of conventional living and yet achieve some stable form of liberation?

I think not. Best of both worlds just doesn’t happen. Oil and water do not mix. It may sound pessimistic, but it has consistently been my findings.

Can you be passionate about making tons of money and yet be resting the mind at the same time?

Can you want recognition and yet be accepting of being a nobody?

Additionally, whom we interact with also have an impact. This is especially so with serious relationships.

Dream scene description

Together with some people, Mr A is climbing up a hill. Suddenly on the hill top appears a big round rock. The rock is taller than a man. The rock starts to roll down the hill side. Mr A and the others all frantically try to run away for the rampaging rock. Mr A run towards towards another high ground. On the top of the high ground is a drain. He quickly jump into the drain. The rock barely misses him and roll above him but didn’t touch him. Mr A was not injured.

Dream symbols involved

Hill : Climbing a hill may be associated with some challenges that needs to be overcome. Not reaching the hill top may denote disappointment.

Rock : 1. associated with being difficult to penetrate.

Drain: Associated with the feeling and experienced of being drained.

Dream Interpretation

At the current moment or in the near future, Mr A is facing some challenges. As he did not reach the hill top, there may be some disapointment with regards to the overcoming of these challenges. There is a feeling or experience of situation that are inaccessible and hard to penetrate. In the end of the whole affair, he is feeling drained.

The Dream Description

In the dream, Peter is about to go across a long bridge that is connecting two cliffs. The bridge is not make of strong material. It is made of a shaky rattan-type material.  Peter’s movement is causing the bridge to sway considerably. When he has walked to about the mid portion of the bridge, The bridge sways even more dangerously. There is a feeling of fear and danger in the air. At this juncture, he halts and is very afraid of moving forward. Peter now woke up from the feeling of fear.

Dream symbols

Looking at the dream description above, there appears to be several dream symbols. The symbols have been bolded. The symbols are listed below:

Bridge- A symbol referring to a time of experiencing changes and transformation.

Analysis of the Dream

Peter is currently or about to go through a period of change. He will soon be or is at this present period, transiting into the middle phase of these transformations in life. He is apprehensive and feeling uneasy about these changes. Because of that, he finds it hard to process forward.

The way I see it is that consciousness is multi-layered or multi-dimensional. The different layers of consciousness are well.. different from one another. For example, our personality self is different from the subconscious mind.

My theory is that dreams are an intermediate state of consciousness connecting the conscious personality self to the subconscious layer of mind. Dreams arrange and display the content and information of the subconscious mind into a format is that understandable and cognizant to the dreamer’s conscious mind.

To me, symbolism is a way for the deep subconscious mind to enable the conscious mind to be aware of its inner workings. Therefore dreams are a kind of symbolic playing/acting of deep mind’s content.

By understanding the meanings of the dream via the interpretations of its symbols, we are able to vaguely figure out what may occur in the near future. How is this possible? There’s no definite answer to this. My personal take on this is that many life events are not really concidences. Instead they are the manifestation of the dynamics that are working within the deep subconscious mind. This inner workings step-down the multi-dimensional concsciousness and eventually manifests as events in our physical world. Dreams, are the intermediate layer of consciousness between conscious personality self and the deep subconscious. As mentioned earlier, dreams are a symbolic representation of deep mind’s inner workings. So, by interpretation of the dreams, we can roughly deduce deep subconscious mind’s dynamic around that period of time. By the time, the dreams are being dreamt, the deep subsconscious mind’s dynamics have already started the stepping down process into physicality.

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Firstly, we need to know that there are multiple types of dreams.

Some dreams reflects what we are currently experiencing in our daily life. These dream reflects our feelings, fears and desires. For example, if we are feeling stressed about certain things, the stressful situations and feelings may be played out in the dream.

Another type of dream expresses what we repress inside us. For example repressed feeling for a person may be played out in a dream.

With regards to the scenes, people, animals and objects that appear in our dreams, we can generally regard them as symbolic representations pertaining to certain values or meanings that we hold. Typically, the different characters in a dream can very likely be some kind of symbolic representation of parts of our personality and inclinations.  Very often, the dream symbols carry semantics and meaning that are specific to the individuals. However, there are also generic dream symbols as well.

As a practice, the feeling and emotion of the dream provides much clues to the significance and ‘message’ of the dream.

Fire in the dream may possibly means overwhelming desire, passion or anger.Or it could signify kundalini and/or enlightenment.

Fish may represents insights from subconscious aspect of self. To be able to catch it denotes the  surfacing of the insight into the conscious self.

Flight, airplane : Could signify a time of rapid transitional changes.

Floating : May mean
1.letting oneself go with the flow.
2. Feeling loss of control.

Flood : Flood is associated with water. It could mean being emotionally overwhelmed.

Flower : Is a symbol for beauty. The event and condition in the dream that is associated to the flower will provide further hints to what is being conveyed. For example: giving and recieving flower denotes appreciation.

Food : Represents nourishment to the self. The various  types of food are indicative of the type of nourishment. Rice represents prosperity. Fish is  often linked to spirituality.

In a foreign land or country : A new experience. Certain experiences, knowledge  that are not within the dreamer’s experience or understanding yet.

Forest : Dream symbol for the subconscious part of mind.

Funeral : May be representing the ending or completion of something, some emotion or an experience in one’s life.

Furniture :In general this dream symbol could be representing our conditioned opinions, attitude, habits,  beliefs and emotional baggages accumulated from the interactions during childhood and our  environment.

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In the dream scene, Alex opens a door and enters what seems like a room. In the room, there seems to be someone or something. It cannot be seem and is felt as an invisible presence.

In the dream scene described above, there are dream symbols within. If you use the Dream Diary Assistant, the software will help by highlighting possible dream symbols within the type-written dream scene.

The symbols are listed below:

Door: may be referring to potential opportunities. The action of opening the door may symbolises the ‘opening’ of an opportunity.

Room: House, Building represent self. The rooms represent various aspects of it. Also represents body.

Invisible Presence: This Presence could mean a part of self. The fact that it is unseen thus invisible could mean that this part or personality of the self is not consciously being aware by the dreamer. It is a part of his or her character that the dreamer is not aware of.

Our Analysis of the Dream

Alex’s entering of the room signifies that he is coming into contact with a characteristic/part of himself. Because the Presence is unseen, he was, at the time of the dream, not consciously aware of this tendency of himself.

Nevertheless, he should be able to better understand this aspect of himself, in the future, since the door was opened.

That’s it. Hope that the general dream interpretation process is clearly illustrated here and is easy to replicate.