The Big Dictionary of Dreams: The Ultimate Resource for Interpreting Your Dreams

549 Pages·2016·8.76 MB·English

by  Clarke Martha.

Table of Contents
Editorial note
Prologue
Part One: Understanding dreams
Introduction
1. What are dreams for?
2. Why do we dream? Physiology of dreams
3. Different types of dreams
4. Creativity, psychedelia, and shamanism
5. Interpretation, divination, and prediction
6. Freud and psychoanalysis
7. Jung and the archetypes
8. Lucid dreaming
9. Kabbalah: dreams in the Hebrew tradition
10. Analysis and interpretation
11. Living your dreams
The dream test
Part Two: Meet the dreams. Dreams from A to Z
Bibliography

Editorial Note
Before beginning
We have developed this dictionary as a navigational map to help the
reader unravel the valuable messages in dreams. In the first part, you
will find an overview of the different approaches to the world of
dreams; these will help you understand the multiple meanings that
dreams contain as well as the importance of always singling out those
meanings. It is best to not just personalize the message, but also to
take into account the circumstances that produce the dream. The
same dream, dreamt by the same person, could have a different
meaning depending on the moment or personal experiences.
Therefore, we should evaluate the importance of each interpretation
carefully, as much with the details as overall.
This book contains the tools to start down the path to discovery, in a
way that person can find their own interpretation of their dreams.
Although, as Jung asserts, “human beings share a broad spectrum of
symbols and archetypes,” the concrete significance of each dream can
be very different depending on the personal circumstances of the
subject. Therefore, whether alone or with the help of a specialist, each
person should take on the task of deciphering their nocturnal
episodes.
And for that there’s nothing better than to get a little practice with
concrete themes from the second part, in the form of a dictionary,
where many themes of the oneiric world are explained and can be
linked together, giving birth to thousands of combinations and
interpretations. We hope that it will provide plenty of hints so that the
adventure of dreaming is even more intense and enriching.
Sweet dreams.

Prologue
How did Jules Verne dream up his magnificent Nautilus? How did he
traverse the depths of a world inhabited by other civilizations,
dinosaurs, and flood-proof birds and plants? How did Leonardo da
Vinci design the first known bicycle in history? How did he predict
flying machines? Their visions don’t belong to the left-or right-brain
hemispheres, but rather they connect to another cerebral organization
that resides in the soul.
The effort to understand the mysteries of life, with the physical,
moral, and linguistic limitations of human thought, moves us to
“seek,” in the mystical ascension of sleep, the higher faculties that
mature the mind past adolescence.
The activities of the “higher mind” never rest, and even determine
our destiny. The clairvoyance that connects to other worlds is a
marvelous experience; in connection with the invisible, in the words
of R. Taylor, “Poets call these enormous powers ‘golden chain,’
because those powers are connected to one another and because the
chain’s nature is incorruptible. They are rooted in this supreme
principle like trees in the earth, which have a distinct energy within
themselves but also give energy to their cause.”
To walk, cars instead of legs; to look, glasses instead of eyes;
calculators instead of our mind; mobile phones over taking ancient
telepathy . . . Will we one day substitute our dreams with movies in
our minds? Will they put ads in them? The dream guarantees us a
phenomenal reality; an umbilical cord that unites us with the passions
of nature; the arts are unleashed, and when we commit evil,
nightmares invade us. The latter ones could—if we don’t reflect and
fix our mistakes—distress our conscience.
The human being visits his ancestors in words of Pythagoras and
Socrates. In the case of metempsychosis, vices change men into beasts.