Michael Lennox - Llewellyn’s complete dictionary of dreams : over 1,000 dream symbols and their universal meanings

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Llewellyns Complete Dictionary of Dreams: Over 1,000 Dream Symbols and Their Universal Meanings 2015 by Dr. Michael Lennox

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Introduction

Dreams have been an important part of the human race since the beginning of civilization. When our predecessors sat around the fire and talked about the dream world, there emerged another dimension of reality, one that was peopled with animals and ancestors, evidence of what was later to be understood as the collective unconscious through which all humankind is connected. Even as science reveals more of the technical aspects of what happens in the brain during REM sleep, the sensation of the power of dreams to reveal more of the soul to the dreamer is unmistakable.

Though we are more disconnected from this soulful realm than ever before, through the dream world we find a profound connection to the self and therefore to all of humanity. On a personal level, anyone who has gazed into the mystery of a dream with a bit of reverence knows the value of such exploration. By understanding your dreams better, you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you.

Dreams are stories told in a language of symbols. To understand that language, you must go to the heart of the image itself. The universal meaning of any symbol is held within its use, its essence, its purpose, or its inherent qualities. Once you understand this relatively simple concept, every dream interpretation is simply a story about the story that the dream is telling. This dream dictionary is a comprehensive tool to assist you in this process. It can deepen your experience of knowledge and self-awareness by helping you understand what your dreams are trying to tell you.

I was first drawn to dreams as a very young boy. In fact, I can still remember a dream I had when I was just three years old. In a strange and empty landscape, I was aware that above me there was a realm that seemed impossibly large while I was simultaneously able to perceive a place that was infinitesimally smaller than the middle ground I inhabited. The greater part was the size of the universe itself and the smaller part was at the molecular level, though my very young mind could not really conceive of such constructs. As an adult, I now recognize this as a dream of infinity and have actually heard this exact same dream described by others. At the time, however, it was simply a captivating image that both exhilarated and terrified me. But more than that, I was acutely aware that this fantastically terrible place existed inside me, within the bounds of my own imagination.

As a teenager and by complete happenstance, I came upon a copy of Freuds seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams . Though it was a bit beyond my fifteen-year-old sensibilities, I was able to glean from his writing that dreams could indeed offer insights and hidden perspectives if they were explored. Social gatherings as a teenager gave me my first opportunities to give this notion a try. When friends would gleefully exclaim that theyd had a crazy dream, I would simply ask to hear the dream and then offer my intuitive response. Wide eyes and exclamations of fascination would follow. I kept doing thisthousands of times, in factover many years and developed what was ultimately an innate gift, which eventually led me to formal study and a doctorate in psychology.

The gift, however, is not what it seems, even if you ever have the chance to witness me interpreting a dream and you declare it to be something of note. Anyone can do what I do, and this book can assist you greatly in realizing your own abilities. My gift is not that I know such things, for we all have access to this knowledge through our humanity and the connection to the collective unconscious. My gift is that I can do this very, very fast.

My first book, Dream Sight: A Dictionary and Guide for Interpreting Any Dream , outlines this process in great detail and is more of a teaching tool designed to familiarize you with how to connect to the hidden knowledge of universal meaning. You may be interested in referencing this book for a more comprehensive dream interpretation experience, but all of the detailed terms from that book can be found in a simpler format within these pages as well, in addition to many more! Llewellyns Complete Dictionary of Dreams contains more than 1,000 interpretations for various symbols that you are likely to encounter in your dreams. It is your go-to reference guide to help you decipher any dream by virtue of working with the symbols that it contains.

There are a few tenets of dream interpretation that you will need to know in order to use this dictionary effectively. The primary one is that there is no wrong way to interpret a dream. The meaning of a dream is deeply personal, and much depends on the dreamer and the sensation of the dream. Over time, the insight that a dream has to offer can even change and evolve. Most important to remember is that the dream itself has a consciousness of its own. Like an excited child discovering a new activity, it just wants to be seen and acknowledged. Simply thinking about a dream is enough to stimulate the unconscious mind to offer you more information to help you understand yourself better. The true value behind interpreting a dream for yourself is not in the final meaning you give to it but in the process of investigating it.