Adams Media - How to Interpret Dreams

Studies have shown that all humans dream, but so do many animalseven your pets! All birds and mammals dream. Strangely enough, cold-blooded animals are the only ones that dont dream.

Even though fear, insecurity, frustration, and angst often cannot be expressed during waking hours, some part of you always needs to be heard. Your regrets, worries, and concernsthings you find too difficult to deal with consciouslygo straight to your subconscious and come through in release dreams. Release dreams are typically jumbled. They have no sequential order and can frequently be classified as nightmares. When youre being chased or running away from something evil, you are usually having a release dream. Experts say that the monster or demon youre running from is actually yourself. Do you want the release dream, the nightmare, to go away? Confront the part of your life that needs work, and these evil beings will leave you alone.

Many people confuse wish dreams with prophetic message dreams because wish dreams seem to be showing you a part of your life that hasnt already happened. This makes the dreamer wonder if the dream will soon come true. But this isnt the case with wish dreams. A wish dream puts you into a situation you may have been imagining or fantasizing about. For example, you might win the lottery or get the promotion youve been hoping for in a wish dream.

A good way to distinguish a wish dream from a prophetic dream is that prophetic dreams always have a logical order. The action in the dream happens in the sequence it would in real life. If your dream is jumbled and doesnt make much sense, its probably not a prophetic dream.

Prophetic message dreams unfold logically, with events that happen in sequential order. Heres an interesting tidbit: You dont have to be psychic at all in order to have a prophecy dream. If fact, many people who are psychic or incredibly intuitive in their waking hours may never have a prophecy dream, while those who have prophecy dreams are not necessarily psychic in waking life. Prophecy dreams can be confusing because they usually deliver a warning, but the dreamer is not always given enough information to take action. Be patient if this happens to you. Ask out loud for more assistance just before you go to sleep the next night, and the next, until you get it. Never dismiss your dreams. Youll still feel better later.

Regardless of whether we remember them, we all have astral dreams, or visits, as theyre sometimes called. Our departed loved ones and our personal spirit guides, who help us along with life choices, actually visit with us. Because there are no limits to space or time in the dream or spirit world, we can find ourselves walking along the Seine in Paris with an old friend who died several years ago, or in Alaska, dogsledding with Great-Granddad.

Here are two ways to recognize a true astral dream. First, the events in astral dreams, like prophetic dreams, happen in sequential order. Second, spirits are by nature happy with where they are, and they want you to know that. If for some reason you feel in your dream that a spirit is evil, or even just sad or angry, you are combining a release dream with an astral visit.