How to Interpret The Meanings of Dreams
There are a few points we need to consider before we start in on analyzing the dreams you’ve been having.
Most of these come from the Huna, in particular a book by Serge Kahili King, called “Mastering Your Hidden Self.” This has been mostly out of print for awhile, although you can readily get copies of it.
In that book, he has a chapter all about dreams. While he gets into how these can be interpreted as to their meaning and so on, you don’t really get to the meat of it until you learn what analysis is itself – and what huna means.
While the word “huna” means, literally, “secret” – it’s a secret hidden out in the open. It means closer to “things not seen” than something not able to be seen. And you’ll find that tradition in all the oldest and most modern books in self-help and spiritual training. Both. Check out Earl Nightingale’s “Strangest Secret”. Or Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” Or half a dozen other books, religious or otherwise.
They tend to tell you things which you’ve known all along and are right in front of you.
King says you dream all the time. Even during the day. I’m sure you’ve caught yourself nodding off sometimes after a heavy lunch and found some other glimpse of a world happening just as you got your eyes open again. Happens to all of us, whether we want to look at it or not. The data is all there, if you pay attention to it.
Now King also had a rather interesting approach to analyzing anything. It seems that there are four approaches to interpreting any results:
- Objective – what just happened?
- Subjective – how do I feel about what happened?
- Symbolic – what does this all mean or stand for?
- Holistic – how does this fit in with what I’m doing, or the goals I have?
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.
A lot of people get stuck on the second one, as they “think” more with their feelings than simply observing the world around them (objective). And because this leads to rejecting other world-views, they shut themselves off from really being empathic with the world. They can’t simple observe what is going on around them and just be there to experience it. 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.
It’s a great and useful talent to have. Because there are worlds of valuable information out there ready for your interpretation and use. Just waiting for you to simply be there and analyze them.
Good luck.
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