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SOUL FUTURE DREAM INTERPRETATION TUTORIAL
Dream Journal
If you have not yet purchased a dream journal, the article entitled Choosing a Dream Journal may assist you. The guidelines set out below not only aid dream interpretation, but also help when one needs to sift through old dreams at a later stage. The suggested order is as follows:
STEP 1
The date and time
Both the date and time of the dream can be a useful source of information when analyzing your dreams. For example, over time, you may discover patterns or cycles such as having premonition dreams between 3 - 5am, and guidance dreams between 7 - 9pm. Dating documents is always useful and can be of immeasurable value when pairing dreams with events or cycles in your life.
STEP 2
Name your dream
Providing a title for your dream helps you to summarise and define your dream. In addition to this, additional insight into your dreams may follow several days or months later, and it is considerably easier and quicker to search through titles than text.
STEP 3
General Information
Transfer the notes on the previous day's events from your notepad to your dream journal. Not only does this aid dream analysis, but will help you to retrace the events of your life should you wish to interpret your dream at a later stage. In addition to this, it also serves as a dumping ground for your worries, fears and anxieties and allows you to put your mind to more constructive use.
STEP 4
Incubation
If you incubated a dream transfer your question from your notepad to your dream journal, verbatim.
STEP 5
Document your dream
The more skilled one becomes at remembering dreams, the more detail there is to record, and this can become an extremely time-consuming process. If you initially used your dream notebook for analysis purposes, you would by now have determined which are the key elements that should be included. Focus on recording those, rather than including every detail of the dream. Document the dream in present tense, as this helps you to bring the dream alive again, and often fresh insight comes as a result of this.
STEP 6
Emotional response
Transfer your emotional response to the dream from your notepad to your dream journal, and add any additional feelings that may have arisen during the dream analysis and interpretation phase.
STEP 7
Dream interpretation
Finally, write down your interpretation of the dream. If you still cannot decipher the dream, record it in your dream journal anyway. In this case, leave this section blank, but with sufficient space to record your dream interpretation at a later stage if the need arises. Insight may come through other symbols in your life or from a similar dream that you may have at a later stage, in which case you may want to fill in the blanks.While there is no harm in using dream interpretation as a source of entertainment, dreams are always more meaningful when consciously integrated into your daily life. Phase 6: Give Your Dream Meaning, will help you to accomplish this.
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