BUTTERFLY MEDICINE / Understanding Your Dreams

By Tara O’Grady

Why do we dream? Well, one reason is because our souls never sleep. They are active in other dimensions while our bodies rest. Your subconscious takes the night shift so you can feel refreshed each morning. How thoughtful! Some dreams help us heal emotions and relationships while we sleep. They give us wisdom and guidance when our ego isn’t looking to interfere. That’s why parents should never tell their children, “It was just a dream.” What they are dismissing is a natural way for humans of all ages to process hidden emotions and learn to understand the many layers of their beings on a subconscious and spiritual level. Dreaming is also a time to connect to the unlimited potential we have as creative individuals. Dreams are real and should always be respected, because they are a part of us, both the conscious part and the subconscious part.

Dreams have been shared and documented since the beginning of time. The Bible reveals that dreaming is how God communicates with us – “He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.” (Job 3:15). In more recent times, scientists and artists relied on dreams for their creative ideas. Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity developed from a dream he had about a field of cows surrounded by an electric fence, and Paul McCartney woke from a dream which provided the melody to his famous song “Yesterday.” Just imagine what you could come up with in your dreams if you learned how to interpret and even incubate them.

Ancient civilizations from Greece, Rome and Egypt believed dream interpretation to be an art practiced by wise oracles requiring divine inspiration. But we all have the ability to learn to interpret our own dreams. We just have to learn the language of dream symbols. Egyptians knew how to incubate dreams, meaning they chose subject matters to dream about prior to sleep, similar to the way we choose films to view on a streaming website. Dreaming is never random, it is interactive. But we don’t have to sleep in temples as the ancient people did in order for the gods to send their messages to us. We just have to close our eyes in our own beds and let the curtains rise on our dreamscapes.

I used to believe dreams were nonsense, just rehashing the day’s encounters and worries. But over time, a few dreams forced me to take notice and I started documenting them. At first I only documented dreams occasionally if they were extremely vivid and seemed to hold wisdom that I could not yet understand. When I focused more attention on dreaming, the ability to remember dreams became a familiar practice. Now I look at my dreams from a spiritual perspective, in terms of everything being connected by universal energy, and so my waking life has become more magical and meaningful because of it. I’ve discovered great insights through my dreams, solved emotional problems, and learned there are many types of dreams we can experience in order to expand our higher consciousness. If you’d like to learn more about types of dreams and how to interpret them, go to my website www.butterflycoach.org.

Sweet dreams!

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