There are so many reasons why a person should create their own dream book. Dreams can be so enigmatic and complex. Yet they hold so much hidden truth about a person’s life that everyone wants to gain a greater understanding of their dreams. Rightfully so, gaining an understanding of your dreams can seriously improve your present life in amazing ways. For example when you learn to work with your dreams they can reveal a great deal of information about what is really going on in your life that you are not consciously aware of.
Creating
your own dream book is crucial to your development with dreams. For one
thing with a self-created dream book, you can gain an understanding to
patterns happening not only within your dreams but within your life as
well.
Your dreams
are always a reflection of what is happening within your life. Because
the average person does little in the way of self-reflection they often
miss those crucial patterns which cause a lot of the suffering and
difficulty that happens day to day.
However the
moment you can study and then examine those patterns as revealed within
the dreams you can begin to fix them. You would not be able to monitor
those patterns if you did not create your own dream book.
Another
reason for creating your own dream book, is to gain an understanding of
your own personal dream symbols. Dream interpretation can leave many
confused about their dreams, so much so that most people dismiss their
dreams all together because the symbols seem so vague and confusing.
However once you are able to journal and examine your own personal dream
symbols you can now create meaning to those symbols you would have
previously dismissed.
Start
by getting a new and very attractive journal. You don’t want to use an
old notebook. By getting a new book, you are communicating with your
unconscious mind that you are ready to take on a new venture. Getting an
attractive book will get you excited with the whole project of
journaling your dreams at night.
You
may want to get a special pen for this process as well. Get one that
you like and one that is different from all the pens you use. You may
dismiss this part but don’t. Something happens in your mind when you
create that special process.
Place
your journal right next to your bed where you can easily stretch out in
the night or early morning to record what you dreamed. Keeping your
personal dream book next to your bed alerts your unconscious mind that
you want to recall your dreams. It’s a simple process with big rewards,
don’t omit this part.
Leave
about ten pages in the very back of your new dream book. Count ten
pages from the very back then add one more, which you will use to create
a section cover. On this eleventh page create a title called, Dream
Symbols. In this section you will write out every unique dream symbol
you experience in your dreams and what the symbol means to you. Over
time you will realize that your mind has created specific personal dream
symbols which appear again and again over several dreams.
At
the front of your new book you want to always make an entry of the
date. Be sure to include the day of the week, the date, month and year.
Then enter your dream just as you experienced it, making sure to write
every single part of the dream no matter now trivial it may seem. Every
single part of your dream has meaning you will soon discover.
Beneath
the entry of your dream, draw a line below. Then create a section where
you will list every single dream symbols which appears within that
particular dream. Make sure to list them whether you understand them or
not.
Now
in the third part beneath the listed symbols, write out your analysis
of the dream using both the dream experience as well as the individual
dream symbols to guide your interpretation.
Next
you want to take every symbol and then transfer them to the back of
your dream book, sort of like in a dictionary style. Include your own
meaning for that dream symbol. If you want to have a deeper
understanding for how to analyze dream symbols, it’s well worth taking a
course to get a more complete understanding. With that said only get a
dream guide that will teach you how to analyze your own dream symbols.
You should never follow generic dream interpretation books as they
cannot account for every single individual. Symbols are a product of
your unconscious mind’s interpretation of what it is experiencing. A
generic dream book would seriously limit your development in
understanding your own personal experience.