dream books

[Hellcat]

Does anyone use books to help them interpret dreams? I have four different ones and they often contradict each other. Does anyone have a book they swear by, or some other means by which to interpret their dreams. I generally go of a mixture of book interpretations and the way I felt during and after the dream. What methods do you use?

[silenceowl]

I read many books on the subject, but i dont like to go by them.

[lordragoon]

Try reading Carl Jung's work. A little more knowledgable than Freud. Symbols in dreams mean only what you think they mean. A dream dictionary might give you a hint as to 'normal' empasis, but you it won't tell you everything or be accurate. You have to find your own emotional emphasis for the items in your dream, if you want to really know.

An example is a wolf. For most people, the wolf symbolizes the idea of an attack or corruption. That's what American society has instilled. However, a native american or a therianthrope dreaming about a wolf more likely views it as an instructor or warrior, even a holy figure. Dreams are all about the subconcious and the id, not words that someone else found close enough.

[Hellcat]

Try reading Carl Jung's work. A little more knowledgable than Freud. Symbols in dreams mean only what you think they mean. A dream dictionary might give you a hint as to 'normal' empasis, but you it won't tell you everything or be accurate. You have to find your own emotional emphasis for the items in your dream, if you want to really know.

An example is a wolf. For most people, the wolf symbolizes the idea of an attack or corruption. That's what American society has instilled. However, a native american or a therianthrope dreaming about a wolf more likely views it as an instructor or warrior, even a holy figure. Dreams are all about the subconcious and the id, not words that someone else found close enough.

yep I'm with you. I sometimes dream of skeletons or skulls, most of my books refer to them in the negative in one way or another, but my feelings towards them both in real life and in dream state are positive. Assumably then such dreams for me are of a possitive nature.