Get into the habit of writing down your dreams straight away. That means having pen and paper-preferably an notebook-at your bedside and the determination to wake up and sit up after a dream and immediately write it down. It is a good idea to put the day and date at the top of the page before going to sleep. This is an outward expression of your serious intention to take note of your dream; and it also means that, on waking, you can get straight down to the business of writing out you dream.

Record your dreams in as much detail as possible. Anything in a dream may be important when it comes to interpretation. What in the dream itself seems to be quite trivial or merely incidental to the main action may, in fact, turn out to be the key that unlocks the meaning of the whole dream.

LOOK AT SEVERAL DREAMS TOGETHER:

Don't think you have to work out the meaning of every dream straight away. Of course, there is no harm in jotting down what strikes there and then as its obvious meaning. However, before finally making up your mind about the meaning of any single dream, it is best to make a record of several dreams and look at them together, to see if there is a common pattern. There may be a recurring image, or different images saying the same thing.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DREAMS:

A dream not only appears within the context of an ever-continuing series of dreams; it also occurs within the context of your life as a whole-your family life,work,love/hate life. Your dreams reglect your deepest emotional responses to your waking-life experiences. It follows, therefore, that a correct interpretation of your dreams will only be possible if they are viewed in the context of your outward life.

This obviously includes what is happening to you now, the situation you are in, problems, ambitions, fears and so on. It may also include, the whole or any part of your past life. Your most deeply seated attitudes, hatreds, prejucices, habits, fears, juilt feelings and pains of all kinds may stem from experiences in your early life.

SEQUENCE IN DREAMS:

Often the part of a dream that is remembered first and therefore recorded first is the last part of the dream. In fact, the tendency is to remember and write down all the sections of a dream in reverse order. This should be borne in mind when gettind down to the business of interpreting your dreams: sometimes, for instance, the last part of a dream gives a solution to a problem posed in the first part of the dream.

SIMPLE MEANINGS:

What has been said about the deep meaning of dreams needs to be balanced against other considerations. Not all dreams have profound psychological significance. some are mere repertiotions of the day's events. Nearly all the dreams that young children tell us about are of this kind.

Some dreams may have straightforward physical explanations. A full bladder may cause you to have a frigteningly embarrassing dream about wetting your pants.

So do not assume that every dream has a deep meaning. Not every dream will contain a life-tranforming revelation-but any dream might!

THE UNCONSCIOUS:

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. There can be no reasonable doubt that there is and unconscious dimension in the human psyche or mind or personality. We frequently find ourselves doing things that we did not consciously intend and that may even contradict ourconscious intentions. The reasons for theseactions may not be immendiately apparent, but everything has a cause. If, therefore, the causes of these actions-their motives-are not conscious, they can only be unconscious.

The phenomenon of post-hypnotic suggestion gives supporting evidence for the existence of unconscious mental processes. We have all seen or heard of cases where people have been hypnotized and then told by the hypnotist that on waking they will perform a certain action. Onwaking the poeple have done exactly what they were instructed to do,but when asked why they did it, they couldn't answer.

AEROPLANE- An aeroplane may be a sexual symbol, representing the penis by virtue of its forcefull penetrative motion. OR the symbolism of an aircraft may be the same as that of a bird: liberation, release, transcendence.

ANTLER- The antler is a symbol of male sexuality or of male aggressiveness.

ARTIST- A painter or other artist may represent the unfulfilled creative and/or intuitive side of your nature.

AWAKENING- If you dream of waking from sleep, this may be a symbol of a new awareness that is either already dqwning in your life or needs to be allowed to dawn.

BAG- Being a receptacle and therefore womb-like or vagina-like, a bag may be a sexual symbol. What may derermine for you the meanin of the bag in your dream is your feeling aobut what is in the bag, or what the bag is for.

BANK- As a storehouse of wealth, a bank may symbolize the stored up, not yet used potential of your psyche.

BUTTERFLY- This may be a symbol of your realtrue self.

CEMETERY- a cemetery may symbolize death, so the dream will be expressing your fellings about death, or your feelings about some dead person.

COLD- Coldness in a dream may symbolize a cold, hard heart. Have your become emotionally frigid? What traumatic experience has caused this?

DAFFODIL- As a sign of new life, in your dreams a daffodil means you should look for clues as to the nature and source of potential personal growth, or renewal.

DIAMOND- A diamond may be a symbol of the self; of the Absolute/God;or of eternity.

FLAME- This may symbolize libido; some consuming emotion.

FORT/FOTRESS- this may symboloize of your self, your total psyche, wholeness.

GOAT- This may be a symbol of male sexuality.

HALO- A figure surrounded by halo or aureole probably means either your own 'divine'-true and whole -self or an inner source of wisdom and power.

HEN- This may mean motherhood;female sexuality.

I- means your conscious ego. Other people, animals and objects in your dreams are usually parts of yourself that your conscious self needs to relate to and cooperate with.

LENS- the image of this would probably mean you are being asked to focus your attention on something.

LILY- New life;life oafter death.

LIPS-May be sexual symbol, representing the vagina.

MAGICK- Power stonger than your ego;some good/bad unconscious force.

MAGICIAN- May be symbol of the Wise Old Man/Woman.