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Dream
Interpretation the Old Fashioned Way
by Beth McCain |
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I remember sitting on my grandma’s big fluffy bed, watching her
write in a faded, worn out notebook; squenched, tiny faded lips
and her eyes shut tight, remembering a dream she had dreamed the
night before.
“What are you doing, Grandma?”
“Quiet child! I’m going back to the dream world for just a few
minutes. Interpreting my dream, see?”
Sitting as quietly as any kid could, breathlessly anticipating
the moment she would open her eyes and smile heavenward, “Ahhh.
I understand. Thank you.” A few moments more of furtive
scribbling and then we would begin our day together.
At the time, the little ritual felt sacred. I could not ask her
about her private dreams, or how she knew how to interpret them,
but my curiosity for such matter was overwhelming at times. As
the years passed and I grew a little older, I also became bolder
if not wiser.
“Grandma, I had a dream last night,” I tossed out, ever so
matter-of-factly one day. The lift in her little wrinkled eyes
told me even then that she was on to me, but she indulged my
cleverness.
“You did? Tell me all about it. I interpret dreams, you know,”
she smiled, knowing full well I already knew this. I would tell
her my dream with all the drama and gusto I could muster, and
she quickly broke it down.
“It doesn’t matter who you dream about,” she began. “You are
always everyone in your dream. Whatever you think of whatever
person you see or meet in your dream, are facets of you.”
On average, Grandma used to have four or five dreams every night
that she could remember. She called some of them “brain
flatulence”, some she called “premonition dreams,” but her
favorites were called the “knowing yourself dreams.”
“Usually my dreams are ‘knowing yourself dreams’,” she recalled.
Grandma never let me in on her secret of interpreting dreams
until the time I bought her a book I believed that she would
enjoy. I don’t know what I was thinking.
Grandma cooed over the purple tulip wrapping paper containing
the dream interpretation book, and I felt rather pleased with
myself that I had chosen a gift for Grandma that no one else
had; of course, I did have a reason for choosing the gift. It
was all in my plan, see?
When Grandma tore away the last remnants of the wrapping, her
small blue eyes, not entirely unexpectedly, transformed
instantly into large black saucers.
“What is this?” she demanded.
When the title of the book registered, her eyes narrowed and her
gaze resembled bullets aimed at, well… you can imagine. The room
seemed to shrink as Grandma stared at me in icy silence.
“I thought you would like it, Grandma. I thought you would like
to read what other people thought about dream interpretation,” I
innocently manipulated.
“Why would I want to do that, dear? I know what I’m doing and I
learned from a master: my own grandma.” She handed the book to
me, indignant. “Bethie, I don’t need this.” Then, her tone
softening suddenly, I knew my plan had worked. “It’s about time
that I taught you how to interpret dreams like my grandma did
for me.”
I discarded the ‘offending’ book and eagerly pulled up a chair.
Grandma called her methods the old fashioned way.
“Sometimes the old way is the best way,” she said. “When you
dream about an animal, for instance, think about what that
animal means to you. If you dream of a snake and you are afraid
of snakes, then you are afraid of something. If you dream about
a snake and the snake appears knowledgeable to you, then you are
receiving knowledge of some sort. You see?”
Grandma taught me that there are some universal signs in dreams
as well, signs that will have the same meaning for many people.
“Water,” she said, “is usually your feelings. If you are
drowning in a dream, it usually means that you’re overwhelmed.”
“You really have to completely take a dream apart and put each
piece in its own category in a notebook.
“First write out your dream, just as you saw it. And if you can,
draw an illustration of the dream as well. Once you have it on
paper, start with the obvious parts that you already know has a
meaning for you.”
Grandma’s example: Let’s say you dream about climbing a tree and
there is a cat up in the tree. The cat meows at you and you
think it wants down. The tree and cat are on a college
university. The cat scratches you and you wake up.
According to Grandma, look first at what you know is currently
happening in your life. Is there anything bothering you at work,
or are there some questions and have you been wondering what the
answers could be? What does the tree or a cat mean to you?
In Grandma’s old world dream interpretation, a tree to me means
growth and a cat means secret knowledge. A college would be a
place of learning to me. A cat scratching me, even though it
seems like a bad thing, really isn’t. The cat (secret knowledge)
made contact with me; I am growing from this (tree) and I am
learning.
If you want to know more about yourself, interpreting one’s
dreams is a good springboard. You’ll soon get the hang of it and
you’ll find yourself excited to wake up in the morning,
anticipating ? like Grandma did ? writing down your dreams.
There are answers in dream interpretation that are only for you.
Grandma showed me that I can learn many things about myself
through my dreams. She also taught me that dreams are personal,
and are meant only for ourselves. There is the occasional
premonition dream in which everything is crystal clear, and can
even feel like it is happening in the real world. Dream
interpretation is different for everyone, but my family relies
on Grandma’s techniques.
One quiet afternoon, years after Grandma had passed on, I
stumbled upon the dream interpretation book I had gotten her as
part of my ‘plan’. I happened to notice that it looked quite
worn, and when I opened it to the first page, she had scrawled
some notes about how it would be better to interpret it her way.
She had written comments throughout the entire book, practically
on every page, but despite this, it was clear that she had made
a kind of peace with the book. It was on the last page she had
written: “Dreaming is like art interpretation. One man sees a
beautiful countryside in the artwork, while another sees a
desolate field; but both of them have the right to their own
opinion. Whatever works best for both interpreters is fine with
me, but do listen to your Grandma, Bethie.” Spoken in true
Grandma Fashion, I smiled, closing the book. As the covers met,
I caught a whiff of her perfume as it mixed with the dust
particles floating, dreamlike, past the sinking afternoon sun.
Beth McCain and her husband, Lee, are instructors and lecturers
in applying the Law of Attraction to attain whatever you desire
in your life. For more information, please visit: http://www.bethandleemccain.com |
| This article
is provided courtesy of Roxanne Courtmanch. Please visit
www.thehelpingcircle.com for more articles on
dream interpretation
as well as many other topics that may be of interest to you. |
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