Dream Analysis - Dream Interpretations by Alison Stormwolf

Exploring the Hidden world of Dreams & Their Meanings in our Lives

Dreams come to us straight from the subconscious levels of our being. They bring attention to things that we maybe need to know, sometimes issues we need to deal with. There are many different kinds of dreams, some are just 'day residue', bits and pieces of memories of what has occurred, almost a replaying as the mind compartmentalises experience to our memory banks. They do not mean much.

We usually know the ones that mean something. They may be recurring... always a sign that the subconscious is trying to bring something to our attention. Nightmares are the same.

Another way we know they need to be acknowledged is the residue of feeling they may leave with us after waking. I have been so affected by some dreams I cannot shake off the feeling the whole next day.

Once we learn to understand the special language of dreams we can become amazed at the knowledge and wisdom contained in them. They do not come via the critical mind so they come to us as truth undiluted.

Dream dictionaries are of limited use as the symbols your mind uses are for you and you alone. A spider for instance is a very different symbol to someone with a spider phobia than to one who sees spiders as the ‘weaver of the web of life’ standing for industriousness etc.

I have been a prolific dreamer since birth and it was only when I reached my teens I discovered that I am also a ‘lucid dreamer’ and ‘astral traveller’.

These abilities have been a source of not only huge wonder to me but also taught me a considerable amount about different levels of consciousness and states of being.

About 20 years ago I attended classes at Aberdeen University in Dream Analysis run by a wonderful woman who was a Jungian Psychologist. I then went on to do the advanced class delving deeper.  I then joined a private ‘dream group’ to further my interest.

Requesting A Dream Analysis I am available for help to interpret your dreams. This is time consuming work and will require your involvement as I will probably need to question you for more details about feelings and what the different symbols mean to you. Anyone who just tells you off-pat what a dream means is not to my mind totally involved in the way that is required. As already stated, your dream symbols (apart from Archetypes which are stored in the universal unconscious and available to all) are yours alone. I charge £20 for this service. To book a Dream Interpretation,   1) click on the payment button below to pay for the Reading,   2) provide your dream details either via email or use the online Healing Request Form. View a Sample Dream Interpretation

Dreams, Archetypes & the Royal Road to the Unconscious

According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and his school of analytical psychology, archetypes are innate universal pre-conscious psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. Being universal and innate, their influence can be detected in the form of myths, symbols and psychic aptitudes of human beings the world over. The archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behaviour.

Archetypes hold control of the human life cycle. As we mature the archetypal plan unfolds through a programmed sequence which Jung called the stages of life. Each stage of life is mediated through a new set of archetypal imperatives which seek fulfillment in action. These may include being parented, initiation, courtship, marriage and preparation for death.

Jung outlined four main archetypes:

• The Self, the regulating center of the psyche and facilitator of individuation;
• The Shadow, the opposite of the ego image, often containing qualities that the ego does not identify with but possess nonetheless;
• The Anima, the feminine image in a man's psyche;
• The Animus, the masculine image in a woman's psyche

The subject is way too vast to go into at this time. This is just a taster of the kinds of issues we come across in the strange world of sleep and dream analyses.

We will almost certainly be coming across them in my work. Many of us are so divorced from our ‘shadow side’ (because we do not want to acknowledge its existence…) that the only way it can get our attention may be through dreams.. or even nightmares.

Therefore, if you are having recurrent dreams it is your subconscious mind trying desperately to alert you to something. Once the message is given over, ie. interpreted and accepted, the dream no longer has a purpose and will then stop.

About Lucid Dreaming

This is the paradox of consciousness during sleep. We are all aware at times of having some form of control in a dream. In fact a dream therapist can teach you how to confront your fears by turning around in a dream and facing them. True lucidity however is something much more profound.
It is in fact ‘waking up’ in a dream world. Being fully conscious in a dream landscape.

This is often accompanied by feelings of intense euphoria and wonder and the awareness of certain abilities which the dreamer may then persue..Like flying, walking through walls etc.

 

About Astral Travelling

This is travelling outside one's physical body; going somewhere in spirit only; leaving one's physical body and going anywhere using one's astral body. Travelling in the astral plane.

When astral travelling I have seen many very strange beings in other realms. It is closely linked to out of body experiences where somebody usually spontaneously gets projected outside their physical body and their consciousness then inhabits their astral or dream body. Often the person can look at their own body from another location nearby. I had my first OOB at age 18 and that was the start of a lifetime of amazing experiences for me.
Most have been awe-inspiring, some have been terrifying but I would not choose to lose this ability.