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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 38
Sign: Virgo

City: PORTLAND
State: Oregon
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/12/2004
Friday, November 09, 2007 

Current mood:  good
Over the past few months, I have been consulting several different dream interpretation books, after waking from my nocturnal abstract playland. I've done this mostly to look up what the various animals that I encounter in the dreams could mean. Leopards, spiders, bees, snakes, large dogs...I feel like Marlin Perkins when I wake up.
I would look up the particular creatures in the books, and occasionally online too. Sometimes the explainations are the same, sometimes they differ from source to source.
Now, I have only been using these as reference for general purposes, and not taking any of it as gospel. I just wanted to know what these things could possibly mean.
Then an idea floated through my head. Are these books helpful to to refer to at all?
If I dreamt of a snake chasing me, would it mean a different thing if I was say, a zoologist who worked with snakes? Yes, I think it probably would. In these books though, it is a "one size fits all" explaination for anything.

"A cat in a tree means this...a fox on your head means that...a badger licking it's balls means..."

I had neglected to take into account what these things would mean to me personally in the first place, and what is going on with me personally in life.

Perhaps these books are trying to write from a perspective that we are all one, and have one Universal mind, but I kinda doubt it.

It hit me then, that people have always wondered what their dreams mean, and there have probably always been those who knew they could make a living by telling them.

Now I am not writing this to lambaste anyone at all. I know that there are people out there who have a deeper insight into things, and can help interperate dreams.
For that to work though, I do feel that it needs to be done on an individual level, and that the person who had the dream does actually know the answer, they just need help getting to it. Chances are, you probably are able to see what most things mean, but may be afraid to look at it.

Bottom line: I don't think I will be going to the dream books any more.



"...and when I woke up, my pillow was gone!"
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