I am always amazed at how much a dream can say about one's life----I have done a lot of looking back and coming to terms with regrets, etc. And I continue to be wounded by one of my daughters (not the one in the dream) estrangement from me, my husband and the daughter in the dream. I am most always have a positive outlook and remain hopeful about healing for this relationship. Thank you for your insights. Pat

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Pat,
I appreciate the follow up response to my interpretations. You provide good collaborating information to what I saw within the dream. Without a follow up to the interpretation we never know if the assessment fits. An incorrect interpretation doesn't help the dreamer and definitely doesn't support my contention that all dreams can be interpreted by an experienced person. I take what I do seriously and your response along with other responses help me understand this strange world of dreams and know what works and what doesn't.

It is amazing how much a simple dream {see my post on Explaining Simple Dreams} can say about a person's life. Few dreams point to any one concrete thing {as in a direct waking experience} about the dreamer's life but instead provides periphery evidence of emotional energies. The actions and flow in a dream are as important in understanding the dream as are the symbols. And because no symbol is 'fixed' {could mean something different in another dream or in another person's dream} it is often the actions in the dream that expose the dream's intended message. Once I get a feel for the flow of energies, patterns emerge that I then put into words that hopefully the dreamer will understand. Your response not only allows me to know whether my assessments are correct, for those of us who take time to understand to examine our lives, it will often confirm or deny what we think or know about ourselves. Often they reveal something we don't know.

I often think to myself after posting an interpretation that perhaps what I have offered is totally wrong. That would tend only to confuse the dreamer and likely give them the impression a dream interpretation is like a card reading or a psychic predicting ones future. Fake and not reliable. Defending dream interpretation as a reliable science is hard enough but if my track record for interpretations is 60/40, or even 72/25, even that proficiency is not good enough to be convincing. I do argue that most all dreams can be interpreted and I point to my record of interpretations here at the Dream forum as evidence. I can't remember the last time I had a response where the interpretation was thought to be totally outside a possibility. I have posts where further explanations are needed, and sometimes with added information provided by the dreamer, a deeper look at a dream is required, but in the end the dreamer sees the association in the dream to their lives. Most often my original interpretation is enough for the dreamer to recognize associations in their life. Of course the more I know about the dreamer the more likely I will recognize patterns that fit with the dreamer's life. But seldom do I have that info {in the beginning I only have the age and gender of the dreamer} which I believe gives support to how well Jung got it right in his theories of dreams and the psyche. No matter how intuitive one is, without the research made by Jung we would still be guessing what dreams are about and what they mean.

Again, I appreciate your response. What looked to be something totally outside reality to your waking life in fact described it in good detail. We would not have known that if you had not taken the time to respond.

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