Interpreting Dreams Lazaris Every consciousness level dreams. Plants and animals dream, but they cannot distinguish whether it was a dream or really happened. Metals dream. Molecules dream. But the Human Kingdom is the first kingdom that can interpret its dreams, and there are some very specific ways do that very accurately: First of all, it's important to realize that there are several things that go on in the sleep state, one of which is dreaming. You also have out-of-body projections —and you also visit other lifetimes, having bleed-through into your incarnational or parallel selves. Well, how can you tell if it was an out-of-body projection, a reincarnation experience, or a dream? Out-of-Body Experiences: One of the ways of identifying them is that there is a certain level of vividness with them that feels totally different than a dream. Many times when you wake up from them, it takes you a few minutes to remember who you are, where you are, what day it is and what you're doing. That's an indication that your dream was actually an out-of-body experience. Reincarnation Experiences: You can tell you've had one by the precise clarity of the details of the dream—the length of a fingernail, a color, a tear by the fourth button on someone's jacket, a twisted epaulet. Little details that wouldn't ordinarily be part of a dream usually indicate it's a reincarnation experience. If it's in a past timing—in Egypt, Rome, or Atlantis—and it has vital kind of technicolor, crystal-clear quality, it's probably reincarnational. Dreams: Then there are dreams, and they fall into four categories: I) Television Dreams: Dreams that are based on something you watched or read, or something that happened to you in the last few hours or days. II) Precognitive Dreams: A dream that is a premonition of something to come. One person dreamed she was being frozen and was worried that when the freezing got to her heart she might die. The next day she read about heart conditions being treated by chilling the circulation. There's a precognition there. That doesn't mean that it's absolutely going to happen. Rather that sort of thing sometimes goes on as a way of telling you not to doubt yourself so much, and to trust more your own intuitions and feelings. Sometimes it's a message from your Higher Consciousness, which knows that tomorrow you're going to read about something, so they'll slip it in a dream tonight. Then you'll go, Woo! Woo! And pay attention to yourself more closely. III) Psychological Interpretive Level Dreams: This is basically how you relate to the world around you. Suppose you have a fight in a dream. What does it mean? What are you really feeling? Now, every single dream has a psychological interpretation, absolutely it does. There is not one that doesn't. Here is a simple example: In a dream you see two horses. One is big, one is small. A voice says: The small horse is better than the big one. That's all. What does it mean? Is it a television dream? Did you see Black Stallion lately? No, and you haven't planned to go horseback riding, either. Is it precognitive? Well, if you go horseback riding soon, be sure to take the small horse! Psychologically, what does it mean? Well, you look at what horses mean to you. Also, if you know anything about mythology, always use mythology interpreting dreams. Some of the leading dream experts have said that myths are public dreams and dreams are private myths. Check mythology. What is a horse in mythology? Maybe the big horse is the Trojan Horse, hollow and filled with a lot of negative stuff. Maybe it's telling you good things come in small packages. Perhaps the dream means you are looking for the big, grand stuff, and assuming that the little stuff in your life isn't important. You may be overlooking the details and the small stuff in the hopes of accomplishing the big stuff. The dream may be telling you something you've known for years, but that you're dreaming it now means you need to hear it again now. IV) Therapeutic Level: Many attribute this level to Fritz Perls, but it existed long before, most notably in Carl Jung's work on dreams—and most mysteriously in the dream work of primitive tribes with a deep spirituality. The therapeutic level is that you are everything in the dream. You are the big horse, and the small horse, and the voice. Now what does it mean? You are the big horse: In mythology the big horse, the Trojan horse, is a symbol of fraud and fade. Are you feeling that what's going on with you isn't very real? If so, maybe you should be the little horse. You are the little horse: The little horse is solid and steadfast and moving forward steadily. Perhaps the message is that rather than being big and glamorous and noticed by everyone, you are quietly moving forward, getting the job done, going to where you want to go. You are the voice. You are the voice that is saying that the small horse is better than the big one. That's the therapeutic level. All dreams, reincarnation experiences and out-of-body experiences are always interpretable psychologically and therapeutically. Also, a dream may be made of up more than one thing. It may be precognitive, and it also may have been sparked by something you saw on television or read, or something that happened to you three days ago. It can all be interlinked. Some of you crafty people will have all of it happening at once, basically because the Higher Consciousness conserves energy. Therefore the Higher Consciousness says, Here's an opening. Let's get just as much through there as we can. They saw a show last night on television that really had a lot of impact on them. That gives us an opportunity to tap them into a lifetime, to teach them something, to show them something they should watch out for right now, to give them a psychological insight, and to show them something therapeutically about themselves, so let's go for it! So hurry up and fall asleep! OK, hit it! Bang, there it is. And if you don't get it this time, well, there will be another night. Working With Dreams First of all, write it down. Don't assume that you're going to remember it. Write your dreams down as quickly as you can. Some, you will realize, aren't that important. But others you will know are very significant. With an important dream, write it down in detail, embellishing it. It may take you a few days to fully embellish. Give the dream a name—the Talking Car Dream, the Burning Bush Dream. Make it something snazzy. In writing it out, you'll find that its meaning will often be unbelievably clear. Don't be surprised if it's not what you initially thought it might be. Dreams are messages from your Soul. Your Soul speaks slower than your tongue. That's why it's important to write dreams down. It's even more important to listen. Once it's all written out, decorate it a bit. Draw little pictures of what you saw, or draw symbols, or simply draw decorations. Now you have a title, an embellished story and some pictures—and by now, you know pretty much what the dream means. Then when you want to do the specific interpretations, it comes real easy. Now you ask yourself: Is this an out-of-body experience? Yes or no. If it is, what did you learn from it? Next: Is it a reincarnation bleed-through? If so, what did you learn from it? Next: Is it a Television Dream? If so, just note that and what it came from. Next: Is it a Precognitive Dream? Those are pretty easy to tell. Then move on to the levels of Psychological and Therapeutic Interpretation. When you're done ask: Is it figuratively precognitive? Am I telling myself something precognitive figuratively, psychologically or therapeutically? And we would suggest that by that time, the dream is clear and full and complete, and you've learned about everything you can learn from it—for now. And it may be mammoth. It may take you a couple of weeks to fully embellish that dream, but once you do, you will have the gifts the dream had to give you. With love and peace. Lazaris 1986, 1992 Concept: Synergy, All Rights Reserved.
An excerpt from the Lazaris tape 24-Hour Consciousness. For further information about Lazaris' seminars, audio and video tapes and books, please contact Concept: Synergy, P.O. Box 3285, Palm Beach, FL 33480. There are seven kinds of dreaming. Only the one discussed here happens while you're asleep. The other six happen while you're conscious, and they are:
1) Daydreams
2) Meditations
3) Inspirational/IntuitiveThoughts
4) Fantasies
5) GestaltAwareness
6) CreativeProcesses All of the techniques and approaches Lazaris describes for working with sleep dreams can be used with all the conscious types of dreams, too. | 
