According to your dreams

What does your future have in store for you, according to your dreams? Or, to ask a more proactive question, how can you use your dreams to predict the shape of your future and then, if you wish, change it?

Rather than predict actual situations, our dreams can help us to understand our likely attitudes and responses to the circumstances we may meet, and it’s our attitudes and responses that can powerfully affect the outcome: our future.

Our dreams process our conscious and unconscious experiences of the last 1-2 days as we update our beliefs about the world and ourselves. During the update, we flash back to key moments in the past to compare notes, and sometimes flash forward to possible future scenarios to test-apply our updated beliefs.

Your dreams reveal the way your conscious and unconscious minds work, giving you insight into your unique beliefs, attitudes, and feelings. The big value here is the insight you gain into your unconscious beliefs, attitudes, and feelings, those powerful unconscious forces that can automatically direct the ways you respond to the situations and circumstances you encounter.

If you want things to change, changing your unconscious mindset is a good place to start, and your dreams are rich in the material you need to achieve this.

If you want to predict the shape of your year ahead according to your dreams, begin with your recurring dreams, or recurring themes. These symbolically reflect the recurring themes of your life, themes that will, predictably, recur into your future unless you make a change.

As an example, if you have a recurring dream theme of being blocked, or not able to get somewhere, or finding yourself in dead-end streets, you might have unconscious beliefs or feelings that are limiting your progress in life, effectively blocking you from where you’d like to be, whether that’s in relationship, career, or any area of your life.

Exploring your dream theme deeply tells you what you need to know, such as where your beliefs and feelings originated and exactly how they are affecting your life.

Awareness of the issue – understanding your mindset and how you acquired it – is not always sufficient to make the change. That’s where dream alchemy comes in. In this example, you might, while awake, imagine yourself back in the dream only this time the road is not blocked, or you find a gate in the apparently dead-end street, a gate that you follow and that leads you to a wonderful place. This exercise helps change your unconscious mindset, and you’ll find yourself adopting new attitudes, discovering new solutions to dead-end problems, finding your way.

If you have an exciting positive dream, perhaps finding a solution to a problem, or seeing a new perspective, or discovering a new skill, this may reflect a positive shift in your unconscious mindset and herald an exciting potential shift in your future.

I have oversimplified the examples to illustrate the concept.

Remember that every dream is unique and deserves your full and deep attention if you’re keen to make the kind of positive changes necessary to open to your best future.

The bottom line is that your dreams do not predict your future, but they do reveal your current mindset, and if you want things to change, changing your unconscious mindset is a powerful place to begin, and this can be done by looking at your recurring dream themes and then doing dream alchemy to help reprogram your unconscious mindset to free you up to change.

The year ahead according to your dreams was our topic on Today Extra (Nine, national television Australia) earlier this month. The segment includes interpreting a viewer’s dream about giving Oprah a lifetime achievement award, except the dreamer had misplaced it and gave her $50 instead. Enjoy.

 

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