Morpheus Speaks
The Encyclopedia of Dream Interpreting
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Be careful as you tread the hidden forests of your dreams. They are the unprotected essence of who and what you are. They are the messengers of your soul and your deeper self. They harbor all your worries and fears, dislikes and rejected aspects, your hopes and your desires laid bare. They are born of the irrational, the imaginal, and the intuitive– a world of being as real and as informative as the rational world of science. Both the outer mask that we all present to the world and the mask turned inward so that we don’t look too deeply at the mysterious inner self are stripped away during our sleep allowing us to see our most beautiful face and darkest shadows. Through our dreams we get a glimpse of what God sees in each and every one of us without judgment or condemnation. Dreams are a grace unearned and a gift to those who will learn to accept and interpret them. Dreams reveal a truth about our emotional state of mind, physical, and psychological health, and our sense of the spiritual. They are our deepest connection with every thing, each other and with God or the universal spirit. Dreams create a nightly map to the experience of being human and if read properly can guide us to worlds not dreamed of through the conscious mind. And they do all this uniquely for the dreamer who has them. Interpreters can hold our hands briefly and point to the way of the psyche but the individual needs to walk this path alone, it is about their story and life narrative and only they can know their true meaning. In a way, how we interpret our dreams may be about how we interpret ourselves and how we think and imagine ourselves into being.
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Our dreams provide a myriad of mysterious and confusing images—some from our personal experiences and some from the depths of the human archetype—but what do they mean, and how can we use them in everyday life? Morpheus Speaks is a compendium of more than five thousand dream images pulled from the dreams of more than three thousand dreamers. Ideas on how to remember dreams, interpret them, and apply them to daily life are provided. Because some dreams seem to advocate for deeper levels of understanding, there are insight sections, a separate section on nightmares, and a section on images that all humans share, regardless of experience. However, we must be careful as we tread the hidden forests of our dreams. They are the unprotected essence of who and what we are. They are the messengers of our souls and our deeper selves. The outer masks that we present to the world—and even the masks we wear to avoid looking too deeply at ourselves—are stripped away during sleep, allowing us to see our most beautiful faces and darkest shadows. Dreams reveal truths about our emotional state of mind, physical and psychological health, and sense of the spiritual. They are our connection to everything, one another, and God. Discover your deepest truths in this definitive guide to dreams, their meanings, and their practical applications in life.
About the Author
R. J. Cole, MS, LEP, is a certified educational psychologist with more than thirty-five years of experience working with adjudicated youth and children with severe emotional disabilities. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Author of the Archipelago of Dreams and The Dragon’s Treasure, he lives with his wife in California.