[Dream Analysis] Using Dreams to Reveal Hidden Anxiety

I became interested in recording my own dreams about five years ago when I had a spiritual awakening (which I’ve written about here) and discovered that dreams are full of meaningful guidance. Researching Near Death Experience’s during that time brought into my awareness that psychics and mediums might not be faking their claims to be able to communicate with spirit guides and deceased loved ones. My logic being that all NDE’ers report telepathy as the main form of communication while in a spirit state and many are able to retain some of that telepathic proficiency upon returning to their bodies.

I loved the idea of being able to have that sort of connection to divine guidance and decided that dreaming is the soul's most reliable channel of communication. Back then I used online dream dictionaries to help with interpretation but it became a huge pain because of how laborious it is to tie so many symbols together. I almost gave up but later found an amazing teacher with a formula for interpretation and now I know for a fact that I'm striking gold with my analysis’. The problem with all the dream dictionaries online is that they really don't give you a formula for separating health related dreams from spiritual gift related dreams; or relationship dreams from career related dreams. It's so much more fun to interpret dreams when you KNOW what the main theme of the dream is about!

Since dreams are very personal and are literally exposing our soul’s most important struggles I can’t exactly expect other people to let me expose them on steemit like that. I’ve decided, therefore, to do all of these dream posts using my own dreams. Yikes! I think it’s the best way to show others how I interpret dreams and also what one can do with their dreams’ guidance. All of my best self-work has been a result of the guidance I’ve obtained from dreams. I’m so close to enlightenment you guys … I can feel it. 😊

This first dream is from July 2015. I think most of my dreams will be older because it gives me more objectivity and perspective when I write about them.

Children holding me back from making flight

(it’s always a good idea to title your dreams)

“I was going to the airport for a trip but a bad weather storm was reported in the forecast for Hawaii and I knew it was important to make it on time. Of course the children I was with were holding me back. I couldn't get my daughter (who was chubby and blonde but isn’t in reality) to listen to me and I was desperately yelling for her to hurry. I was even pulling her hair to get her to look me in the eye from the stage she was laying on! The group didn't wait up and we were left behind.”

The theme of this dream is ‘heart/emotions’ which is symbolized by the island of Hawaii. An island, being a separate land mass, represents keeping ones feelings and emotions suppressed or separate from others and even sometimes ourselves. All of the other details of this dream will be relating to my heart somehow.

Air represents the mind and so a storm indicates depression or conflict. It was reported in the forecast so the dream was indicating that this would be happening sometime in the near future. ….Fun! 😞

“The children” were holding me back in this dream. The first rule of dream analysis is that you are everything in the dream so everything must be representing something about yourself. In this case, it’s not my actual children holding me back but my inner child that is the issue.

The child in the dream is basically not paying any attention to my begging her to go to the airport with me - this is symbolic of my awareness, at the time, of my need to work on this issue. The airport represents the beginning of a new aspect of my life journey. In the dream I felt extremely anxious, impatient, powerless and eventually was abandoned. These feelings are all being tied to my damaged inner child and are the issues that are holding me back, and affecting my heart in reality.

I now know that feelings of anxiety and impatience are tied to a desire to control (which stems from feeling powerless) and fear of being abandoned (which happened in childhood and this dream). Hair represents our thoughts, as both are produced by our head (dreams speak in pun and metaphor). The emphasis on trying to get the child to look me in the eye by pulling her hair is symbolic of my soul or higher self trying to draw my attention to the quality of my thoughts and instructing me to access my clairvoyance and intuition, which is blocked by these issues..

The guidance here is to look into inner child healing work. The color blonde is significant as beige represents the need for tolerance and acceptance. Blonde hair, therefore, means I should train my thoughts to be more tolerant and accepting. Tolerance and acceptance is more in line with a ‘go with the flow’ philosophy and is a direct counter to a desire to control others or the outcome of uncertain situations.

At the time of this dream I doubt I identified as anxious or high strung. My feelings were so suppressed I was somewhat blind to them and certainly didn’t want others to see that I felt stressed out or overwhelmed. Of course, an impatient person eventually snaps in trying situations and this dream was telling me that I was in store for a bought of depression unless I chose to notice and address these issues head on.

It's interesting how we can't see things about ourselves that are often completely obvious to others. Or, we might not realize there are alternative and much more pleasant ways of experiencing life if we work on fixing our perspective rather than attempting to forcefully reshape external reality to our liking.

I'm happy to say that this is one layer of self-work that has been peeled away and largely worked on. I'll likely write about how I did that in another post.

If you would like me to analyze your dreams, please them to DreamAnalyze.me with your @username if you would like to see them on steemit!

All the best!