How to Interpret Dreams Meanings - Some Old and New Tools - By: Dr. Robert C. Worstell

Understanding the meanings of dreams is simple if you know a few underlying points.

Most of these points are found in the ancient study of Huna. A book by Serge Kahili King, entitled, "Mastering Your Hidden Self" is the reference we can use for this.

This book has a great chapter in interpreting the meanings of dreams, but to understand these in turn, you have to study how King defines analysis and the term "huna" itself.

When you look it up, the word "huna" literally means "secret" - however, this is a short hand for "what isn't seen". Of course, this can also mean that you simply don't see what's in front of you. And that concept is repeated in various self help books and recordings, such as Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" and Hill's "Think and Grow Rich."

These data which are right in front of you, yet unknown, are frequently described as "common sense."

In King's book, it's pointed out that people dream all the time - all day long, in fact. You probably have seen this when you have woken from a daydream after a heavy lunch. That "dream-world" is always present, just ignored or suppressed most of the time. You'd be amazed what you find when you simply look for it. Lots of data there.

In Dr. King's book, he also lays out four distinct ways of analyzing data. I've not seen anywhere else which covers analysis this way:

Objective - what just happened that I observed? Subjective - are their any feelings I have about what happened? Symbolic - is there anything that this all stands for or means? Holistic - how could this fit in with the goals I have or what I'm doing?

Now, of course you can use any one of these. The most experienced kahunas would actually use all four at once getting a conceptual understanding of things as they occurred and seeing the world around them from a much broader viewpoint.

Feelings can be used as a convenient crutch to "think" your way through life. In fact, many people substitute how they feel for what they think. Using feelings exclusively can cut you off from other world-views, leaving you only feeling rather than doing honest analysis or interpretation.

So their analysis is incomplete, and they are lacking 3/4 of the meanings they can get from any dream. Worse, as they simply react to any dream, they then are involved in their own reactions rather than looking to other possible interpretations that are possible.

Yes, this takes practice. And you may find that you should invest some time in releasing the many feelings and desires you have so that you can simply sit in a comfortable position daily for a bit of time each day and let all these different states simply flow out of you. The idea is to get good at just being there, so that you can easily move into this state whenever you want to.

Once you are able to have that ability, you can then simply extract the meaning from any dream either your sleeping , waking , of incidental day dreams all at will.

Good luck.

About the Author

Known for extensive writing in self-help and personal development, Dr. Robert C. Worstell (see author interview) has just published a New Age fiction book, "The Dreamer Dreamed" which explores the concept of How to Interpret The Meanings of Dreams, among other ideas. This book employs his understanding of various spiritual meaning books & research.

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