What new insights can you gain by sharing your dreams?

Dreams can be perplexing things.  At times it can feel like we have the weirdest dreams possible, and nobody could possibly appreciate what we have dreamed, let alone understand any meaning in the cryptic tales.

 

But in actual fact, not only do most of us have extraordinary and fantastical dreams, but in many instances, other people are able to more quickly guess at what our own dream might be telling us than we are ourselves.  Sometimes we are so close to the brush-strokes that we can’t see the whole picture.  Other people can help us see patterns that we ourselves might miss.

Dream sharing can be an invaluable tool to help us gain unique and sometimes surprising insights into our dreams.  Sometimes simply the act of telling a dream to someone else can help us to suddenly see things from a new perspective.  Sharing our dreams can also help us start to see common symbols in other people’s dreams, and hep us appreciate how we can be so similar to others, and yet so profoundly different at the same time.  Sharing dreams can help us realise there are other people as just as quirky and strange as we are, so we don’t feel so alone.  Even just getting a dream off our chest and out into the open can be an immensely satisfying process.

So if sharing dreams is something you would like to do, there are a variety of ways to go about this.  It can be as simple as starting with friends and family, though if personal experience is anything to go by, not everyone will be a wiling audience!  If you are lucky enough, as I have been, to have a patient mother, partner or other special person, all well and good.  If not, you may wish to start a “dream sharing group” – basically a regular gathering of like minded individuals to talk about and gain deeper understanding of each others dreams.

Or if you prefer a more anonymous and on-line version, you might want to try this site, www.yourdreamjournal.wordpress.com a place to come and be your dream self in all the honest, weird and wonderful glory that you are!  Dream Well!