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Why do you use dream interpretation? I don’t dream.

 
You will dream profusely, once you begin to have some curiosity for your inner psychological experiences. Seeking insight from your dreams is part of the process of letting go of your defensive need to keep your own life under your own “control.”

Once you accept the fact that your life is largely governed by social influences through unconscious processes, then your dreams will start to give you some insight into these processes. And once you “wake up” to what your dreams tell you, then you can turn to God for refuge from your bondage to the illusions of the social world around you.

In this sense, you can see that dreams, when interpreted properly, are a form of divine inspiration. Keep in mind, however, that dreams are meant to be taken as personal revelations of the truth of your own present state of mind, not as predictions of the future. If you misunderstand dreams and take them for more than personal psychology, then they become like divination and omens; all these things “are unreal; what you already expect, the mind depicts” (Sirach 34:5).

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

See my website A guide to Psychology and its Practice

For information about interpreting dreams, see the web page called Dream Interpretation.

For information about the nature of the unconscious, see the web page called The Unconscious.

For information about how a need to be in control causes stress, see the web page called Stress.

 


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