Archive for February, 2010

Dream Interpretation – The Difference Between Theories and Real Translation of the Dreams’ Meaning

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Many different civilizations, which belonged to different historical times, have proclaimed that our dreams have a very important meaning, besides metaphysical dimensions.

However, nothing was clear, and there was no theory that could be considered to be the absolute truth about the meaning of dreams.

As a matter of fact, if we want to understand what means dream interpretation really according to the scientific method, which is the only correct one, we have to first of all forget all the known theories about the meaning of dreams, because they are all false. There is no base for their arguments. They don’t prove anything, and they don’t explain anything.

They are merely personal opinions of the dream interpreters, who may be based on scientific knowledge, however are not based on serious research.

A scientific research is based on the comparison of facts and reactions, on the reproduction of a certain effect due to the comprehension of its mechanism, and on many other objective proofs of the value of the discoveries made thanks to this study.

The scientific method of dream interpretation discovered by the psychiatrist Carl Jung and simplified by me, who continued his research discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, is the only method that deeply analyzes the dream language, which is made with images instead of words.

The real translation of the meaning of dreams is given through the translation of the symbolism contained in the dream messages, according to the logic and to the particular definitions given to the dream symbols by the unconscious mind that produces our dreams, and is therefore, the dream author.

He, the author, must give us the meaning of his own language, so that we may understand his words. We cannot discover what the dream author is trying to tell us if we try to guess based on our personal opinion, the same way that we cannot translate a document written in a foreign language based on suppositions.

The difference between dream theories and real dream translation is so huge that this comparison denounces a very big irony!

Only Carl Jung studied the unconscious language deeply enough, through very long scientific research, finding real solutions, giving true explanations to the world, and curing many people with this knowledge.

Continuing his research, I could not only prove that he was right and relate his discoveries to recent discoveries made in many different scientific fields, like biology and astronomy, but I was also able to prove to the world that the unconscious mind that produces our dreams is even wiser than what Jung believed with the knowledge he had.

I was able to transform his complicated method of dream interpretation, which depended on the analysis of too many dreams for a long period of time and on many comparisons, into an instant and exact translation from images into words.

But the most important of all is that today you can immediately understand how to find your mental health, transform your personality and attain wisdom translating the meaning of your dreams, because I managed to explain to you how to put into practice the guidance you receive in the dream images in order to have immediate positive results.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

Click Here to download a Free Sample of the eBook Dream Interpretation as a Science (86 pages!).

Behavioral Psychology and Dream Interpretation – Coaxing and Influencing Other People

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

You’ll manage to coax someone to trust you if you follow a few basic behavioral rules. In order to do so, you have to study behavioral psychology, or behaviorism.

You can learn even more, if you learn what exists inside the human psyche thanks to the vision given to you due to the results of long researches conducted inside the human brain through scientific dream interpretation.

This way you’ll understand why the human being has certain reactions, and therefore, how to provoke, or avoid them.

If you are imagining that you’ll be able to manipulate other people and oblige them to do what you want, you have to understand that this is not what you should desire first of all, and secondly, you have to understand that you are too ignorant to know what will be good for you and for other people, which means that you cannot decide what you should coax them to do based on your opinion.

It doesn’t matter if you are only trying to sell your products. You have to understand behavioral psychology if you want to coax someone in a way that will be positive for them. This is important if you want to have repeat customers, who will always trust you.

You should learn how to translate the meaning of your own dreams, and have the guidance of the wise unconscious mind showing you what to do, with my dynamic method of dream translation.

Even by being able to translate the meaning of a few dream symbols, you’ll already be helped by this knowledge, the same way that you are already helped with the knowledge you have of a foreign language when you visit a country where it is spoken, and you are able to communicate with other people, even though you cannot speak it fluently.

Exactly the same happens with the dream language. In the beginning you’ll only understand the meaning of a few dream symbols, and the general intention of the unconscious mind that produces your dreams. Later, you’ll understand it completely and you’ll be able to immediately translate all dream images into words that you can understand.

However, the translation of only a few dream symbols will already show you many things about how to coax and influence other people, in a way that will be beneficial for them and for you too.

You’ll realize that you have to:

- Create trust and confidence by being sincere and helpful
- Eliminate all fears by repeatedly showing understanding and sense of responsibility
- Focus on benefits and positive results for the other person

Begin creating the right atmosphere for easily coaxing everyone to trust you by following these basic rules. You have a lot more to learn though, because our personality is shaped by the psychological type we belong to.

The unconscious mind will show you how to persuade someone to accept your ideas and plans, by explaining to you to which psychological type they belong.

This means that you’ll be able to predict their reactions, and show the behavior they admire.

After learning behavioral psychology according to the unconscious’ guidance, you’ll learn how to influence other people positively, helping them feel comfortable with you, easily agree with your conclusions, and prompting follow your advice.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.
Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com
Click Here to download a Free Sample of the eBook Dream Interpretation as a Science (86 pages!).

Psychoanalysis – Yesterday Versus Today – Why We Need to Adapt to Our New World

Friday, February 19th, 2010

How do I start? It’s gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don’t commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues.

Also, I don’t want to get into the “politics” of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the “war” it’s into against other branches of Psychology such as cognitive sciences. The point I’m trying to prove is that Freudian Psychoanalysis and the people who study and has studied it (including me) have some points and miss some others.

I think Freud was dead right regarding the dynamics of the unconscious mind (the existence of unconscious processes is not arguable). (mental note: avoid being technical) Once you understand the theory and articulate it, you can trace behaviors back to its’ elemental state. It’s a tool to comprehend how the human (animal) mind functions while in contact with culture.

The error (I’m not being modest here, sorry) I often see, is that its’ application to our “real world” (I’m really using those two words very loosely) often fail. And why do I think so?

Because some people tend to extrapolate the exact Freudian Theory to current cases. I could say that studying Psychoanalysis during the 1900s was a lot easier. Today we need to make an extra effort. Why?

Because Freud wrote at the end of the XIX century and beginning of the XX in a much more different society. With no mass media, no internet, no cell phones, no cars… and let’s not start about the social differences of Victorian Europe. Spring Break could have killed half of the Old Continent’s population of heart attacks.

Today, the effort we have to make is to dismount that carpet of social fantasies put together. We have new ones 100 years in the future. Our society is a lot different than that of WWI. We see the world, we interpret it, in a different way. We can’t pretend that the world hasn’t changed. We have to put the new carpet of our post-modern world on top of the naked roots of Psychoanalysis. Same basic rules of cognitive functioning still apply, we just need to connect them to our current individual and collective fantasies, goals, desires.

Psychoanalysis was popular because it addressed the exigencies that that world posed. And that’s a criticism that many branches of Psychology are making. We could even find something new, something we haven’t been looking for.

I realize that if I keep writing, this post would reach an asymptotic line on the “Over” axis. I know I’m leaving a lot of loose ends, maybe one every 10 words. But my goal was to address a point and stick to it. Lots of ideas come to mind but it would make this post lose its purpose.

PS: Flak welcome

Fernando Tarnogol is an Argentinean psychologist, currently working as Program Coordinator at the Devereux Foundation in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

He has studied Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and Human Resources Management at UADE (Argentinean University of the Enterprise). His professional experience includes work in HR for HSBC Bank Argentina and in two mental health facilities performing psychological evaluations and other clinical work.

Visit his blog at http://fernandotarnogol.com/

Memories – How Do Men and Women Remember Them?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Memories are nothing but remembrances, of times gone by, of things done in the past, of spoken words, sometimes unspoken words… We all have memories, some good, some bad, some cherished, some despised…

Men usually look upon things from a matter of fact perspective, they remember things, incidents but only as they happened. Women categorize everything they see, they learn, even the incidents and remember them along with the emotions that they might have felt at that moment. Scientific study also proves that women have a better memory than men, (I am not at all saying that guys are forgetful, it’s just the scientists saying that). And one reason for this is the structure of brain and slight differences in male brain and the female brain, but let me get into all that…

When an incident happens, a guy sees it differently, perceives it differently and hence remembers it later differently than a girl. Girls tend to attach feelings, emotions to everything around them. And these play a major role in forming the memories. Girls can categorize memories as happy, sad, funny, cherished, painful, secretive, hurtful, and regretful and so on… but for guys mainly it’s just a memory, when pressed to provide more details they will think about how they had felt about it at that point in time.

When it comes to memories seldom are guys sentimental about them, they just remember things with no sentiments attached to it. If asked to recollect an incident from the past, guys do a wonderful job of putting down all the facts and sequence of events. But that’s not the case with girls; they will list down the facts, sequence of events and also add in the feel of it all. They will definitely and most of the times unknowingly add how they had felt or perceived the incident at that point of time. They would add in maybe how they felt others had felt who were present or involved in that incident, it’s all about perception.

Another common sighting is that guys remember a thing/incident only when it happens again! But girls don’t usually forget it’s not that they want to be picky about it or put in extra effort to remember it, it just stays on their mind.

Many people are scared to let their old memories come out in open; they do not want to share them with anyone. Many people feel memories are for self to cherish not shared with the world, but that should not always be the case. Memories should guide you; they should remind you of what you did before and also of what you learnt from those.

Virtual Group Work and DID – Raising Awareness For Psychotherapists

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The pain and sadness was evident on the face of 72 year old Ruth. After years and years of struggling, she had finally been seen by a professional who recognized her symptoms as DID and healing had progressed in an astounding way every since. “So much of my life was wasted. What do you need to know so that others do not have to wait to get the help they need?” she asked our therapists’ group. Like Ruth many suffer in silence, their condition exacerbated by inappropriate medications, professionals that don’t understand or believe them, and a constant fear that they are really ‘crazy’.

As a reaction to repeated abuse some children begin to create imaginary characters to hold the brunt of the trauma. Thus begins a lifetime of assigning pain and memories to ‘others’ so the ‘host’ no longer has to feel. An entire system of alters is created and the ‘craziness’ begins as the adult switches or dissociates. This compartmentalization helps the person survive the brutality of their experience.

Virtual group work is no surprise to those of us who have worked with DID clients. They bring with them a whole group, in their heads, made up of different ages and genders and even different mental health issues! At some point these ‘individual’ participants begin to interact with each other and then group dynamics takes on a whole new meaning!

But let me back up a bit for those of you who may be skeptical. We have all had clients who have experienced childhood abuse or trauma. As adults their symptoms are very much like PTSD and we comfortably begin to help them with their memories, hyper vigilance and anxiety. After awhile we may notice that our usual tools are not working as well and relief is temporary for the client. Medications are not helpful. Suicidal thoughts or self-injury behaviors seem to come out of nowhere and then suddenly disappear.

Strangely these clients are honest about substance abuse describing it as a means to “shut myself up” or “explain my quirky behavior”. Some clients can seem completely functional and professional in certain areas like work. Their ability to focus is often exceptional. Still, at other times there will be an outburst of radically different behavior that is out of character. Some of these behaviors might involve cruising for sexual partners, child like behavior such as climbing a tree or suddenly exhibiting an expertise or talent they are unable to demonstrate at other times.

Another clue that DID is present is a very high tolerance of pain. A client was in a car accident but only went to the doctor days later because the lawyer requested the consultation. The doctor was astonished to find my client’s chest severely bruised and she refused painkillers. She didn’t understand what the fuss was about. This is tied to the client’s excellent ability to compartmentalize thoughts and feelings. You might also notice headaches or a sense of dizziness proceeds behavior changes or panic attacks. Your client may be switching to another alter.

Here are some clues that you are dealing with a ‘group’. Clients will talk about constant chatter, running commentary or arguments in their heads. Journal entries may have noticeable changes in handwriting. E-mails or phone messages may have different vocabulary or tone. Stories of abuse will be shared one week and completely denied the next even apologizing for wasting your time.

It is true you cannot safely diagnose DID until you have witnessed an alternate personality. It helps to use the DES questionnaire for more indicators. Unofficially, when my client politely leans towards me and with a sweep of her hand circles her face and asks me “Are you telling me there is really nothing going on in your head?” and they are astonished that I live with such ‘emptiness’, I have a good clue that this client has been dealing with a life long, complicated and busy system of alters. Then I can begin the ‘group’ work that will lead to the empty contentment I so enjoy myself!

Jane Parker is a licensed mental health therapist in Bradenton, Florida who has a special interest in Dissociative Identity Disorder. Together with Sue Mackey she is co-owner of New View Counseling providing opportunities for a fresh perspective for clients ready to make a change in their lives and relationships.
http://www.newviewcounseling.com

Falling in a Dream – The Meaning of Dreams and Their Warnings

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

The meaning of your dreams is very important, and you should learn how to translate them according to the scientific method, so that you may understand the unconscious’ messages.

When you are falling in a dream, this means that you’ll have sad deceptions, which will make you feel totally lost. This is a very serious warning that must be respected, because it will save you from bad consequences, and help you find psychical balance.

You usually see unpleasant dreams because their function is protective. The unconscious mind that produces them works like a natural doctor who has a very important mission: save the human side of your conscience from the craziness contained in your wild side (anti-conscience).

A wild animal is cruel, and indifferent to the suffering it may provoke to other animals, while you should always show compassion to other human beings. This is the only way you can preserve your mental health and find peace.

However, what happens in practice is exactly the opposite: you act like an animal when you are dominated by anger, and the anti-conscience controls your behavior.

The destruction of your human conscience means that you cannot judge anything; you lose your capacity to think, feel, sense, or have a natural intuition about how the future development of reality could be, or who the people around you are.

You are therefore totally disconnected with the external reality, while the anti-conscience keeps sending you absurd thoughts and feelings, without giving you any chance to understand what is happening to you.

This means that even though you don’t know what you are doing when your human conscience is being destroyed by the anti-conscience, you ignore that this process is happening, and you even try to justify your absurd behavior, without imagining that the anti-conscience is acting in your place, after sneakily stealing the control of your behavior.

If you are falling in a dream, this means that the anti-conscience has already managed to imprison you into terrible situations.

So, you may have a very sad surprise, discovering that the people you were trusting are in fact your worst enemies.

You’ll conclude that you are their victim, however, the bitter truth is that the anti-conscience made you trust them, preparing a trap for you, since it could understand that these people would betray you.

The anti-conscience is a monster that wants to destroy your humanity, so that it may be violent without being tamed by your human conscience. It is not an irrational animal, but an animal that can think. It is like a wild lion or a shark, with the difference that it is more intelligent. This is why it can understand many things, and prepare you hidden traps.

Thanks to the warning you have when you see yourself falling in a dream though, you can avoid being dominated by anger, and instead of hating your enemies, you can understand that you were in fact a victim of the anti-conscience.

This notion will work like a parachute and prevent you from exploding, full of anger, with the deceptions you’ll have.

The unconscious mind always shows you how you can correct all your mistakes and get out of the tragic situation you are in, after sending you a dream warning. This is why you should keep taking notes of your dreams and translating them, while following the wise guidance you receive.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.
Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

Click Here to download a Free Sample of the eBook Dream Interpretation as a Science (86 pages!).

How to Know If Someone is Mentally Ill – Signs of Behavioral Abnormalities

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Mental illnesses are sneaky diseases that don´t appear on in the conscious surface and that are not apparent immediately in the patients´environment. However, various behavioral abnormalities gradually take off their mask of “normal person”, reflecting their neurosis, psychosis, schizophrenia or similar mental illness.

If you want to understand whether someone is mentally ill before waiting for various facts that will reflect psychological abnormalities in order to verify who they really are, you have to learn how to analyze the human behavior and observe the signs that indicate lack of balance, and absurdity.

This is very important, because you may trust a schizophrenic without knowing what you are doing, and decide to get married to a person that will only torture you, or have a negotiation with someone who is totally absurd and will ruin your business, but may mislead you with false impressions of sensibility and honesty.

There is a very big danger concerning business relationships with people you don´t really know, especially because mentally ill patients never show signs of abnormality in their work, but only in the moments when they are alone, or when they are with their family, and so on. So, it´s harder to discover signs of schizophrenia in a business partner than to perceive them in a future husband or wife, for example.

However, the bitter truth is that if you are not well informed, you will never be able to perceive important signs of abnormal behavior in a certain person, even if you are near them for many hours, because they can hide their absurdity from your eyes very easily. They act like normal people in too many ways, being absurd in only a few points that you may never notice before having a tragic surprise.

The details that reflect abnormal behavior and work like visible signs for the eyes that have learned how to recognize them are many, depending on the psychological type of each person. This means that if you want to have a total vision about the behavioral abnormalities that reflect psychological disorders, you have to learn everything about the psychological content of the human being.

This is possible thanks to the vision given to you by the scientific method of dream interpretation, since it shows you an internal map of the functionalism of the human brain and psyche, explaining you how the human behavior is determined by the various characteristics of each one´s personality.

You learn how to prevent the craziness contained a priori in the wild side of your conscience to invade the human side of your conscience.

There is too much absurdity accumulated in the anti-conscience, our primitive conscience, and this is why everyone is too vulnerable to mental illnesses.

By learning how to prevent and also cure all mental illnesses, you´ll be able to analyze everyone´s behavior, even if you won´t care about learning how to translate your dreams according to the scientific method.

If you care about interpreting your own dreams, the unconscious mind will give you objective information about other people in a symbolic form.

You only have to learn the dream language. This is not difficult as I have transformed dream interpretation based on long comparisons of dreams, into a fast and instant dream translation from images into words. Since I give you the meaning of the most important dream symbols, which you recognize in various dreams, you can discover the meaning of the other components that are not part of the symbol collection.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

Click Here to download a Free Sample of the eBook Dream Interpretation as a Science (86 pages!).

Dreams’ Meaning – Why Dream Interpretation is a Powerful Tool in Your Life

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

The meaning of dreams has been pursued by many people in the story of mankind, from ancient times. Only at the end of the last century though, did the psychiatrist Carl Jung discover the real meaning of the enigmatic dream language, proving to the world that our dreams work like psychotherapy. However, his work was too complicated; only a few people could understand it and precisely follow it, while many people who didn’t have the patience to study it enough, have distorted his words.

Besides that, he had many enemies that didn’t want to admit that he was right, since this would mean that their theories were wrong…

This is why until today the real value of his discoveries was not recognized by humanity.

Continuing his research, I was able to prove that he was right and discover much more, being able to give you clearer definitions about the meaning of dreams, and help you immediately translate all dream messages, without delaying as much as you do when you follow Jung’s method.

This means that now dream interpretation has become a very powerful tool!

Your dreams won’t be mysterious images and scenes that make no sense to you, but specific messages that have a very important meaning, because they give you real and objective information about the world where you are, about other people and about the content of your psyche.

For example, you may see a spider in a dream. This dream symbol indicates danger: there is something very important that you are not doing but that cannot be postponed, otherwise you’ll be in trouble.

Let’s suppose that you also see a fly in a dream. This means that something is bothering you, and you cannot see or understand what is obvious (and you would have understood it if there was not a certain distraction preventing you from thinking normally).

As you can see, even just the image of an insect in a dream is already giving you a warning, and informing you about the situation you are really in. Your dreams show you what you are not perceiving, so that you may correct your mistakes.

Carl Jung wrote pages and pages, explaining to his readers how he was able to discover the meaning of each dream symbol. I don’t waste time explaining why the spider means danger and why the fly means a distraction, because I care more about showing you how to use this knowledge to overcome your problems, instead of proving to you that this meaning is given by the unconscious mind and it is not my invention.

However, keep in mind that there is a very long explanation about how each dream symbol’s meaning was found through research.

The important thing is that the real dream language can be clearly understood now, which you verify in practice by discovering miraculous solutions to your problems.

The interpretation of your own dreams will be for you the most precious tool at your disposal!

What could be more powerful than future predictions, and guidance from a genius?

Dream interpretation will be a true advantage in your life, showing you everything that other people cannot see, and guaranteeing your success in all fields beforehand.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

Click Here to download a Free Sample of the eBook Dream Interpretation as a Science (86 pages!).

The Human Heart is Double Edged

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The human heart cuts both ways. It’s spontaneous… but also very obligated and loyal to tradition – both simultaneously. These are the traditions our habits have built into our life as we grew up, forming our particular perceptions, attitudes and beliefs. The impetuous heart’s first impressions make it the most reliable of truth-verifiers – a quick read. And yet those very truth-impressions are bound partly to secret promises built, to a greater or lesser extent, upon censorship and concealment (explained below).

The heart’s spontaneity gives it the impression that it’s free of all obligations and encumbrances. Yet its quick responses to experience are possible because the heart’s judgment obeys well-established attitudes, anchoring it to the bedrock of our beliefs about what things mean when we interact with life.

For most of us our common assumption is that our life has been built upon positive emotional experiences, which we try and reinforce and repeat every day. When in fact all human life is built upon a relatively even mixture of positive and negative occurrence – though some people’s negatives are much bigger than others. Yet until very recently in human history we have not been able to manage negative incidents that conflict with our deeply yearned-for participation in happiness. We have fundamentally denied and projected the authorship of negative events upon other forces, entities and other people, making of our world a profoundly dangerous and violent place – which is only now being modified in a very significant way.

These psychic strategies of denial and projection are normally discussed as “mental illness”, meaning only the wackiest do it, when their use is universal. No completely sane person, for instance, would ever wage war, except to put an ethnic-annihilating tyrant out of business, a very recent motivation for war. For centuries, well into the 20th century, we’ve spent well over 90% of our time killing for profit – rape pillage, spoils and the acquisition of conquered land.

So what do censorship and concealment have to do with the evolution of our habitual attitudes of experience-perception? We like to pretend in this modern age that children are capable of being emotionally independent of their parents, so, among other things, they can teach us their wisdom. Nothing could be farther than the truth. If we suffer, so will they suffer, and be unable to do anything about it – except perhaps with other very involved adults who offer them a viable and intimate alternative model. But even with this help, children can’t mess with the basic model of life their families have provided, or failed to… for better or worse.

The reason is very simple. To begin with only children can love unconditionally, though we pretend otherwise. To love unconditionally is a pretty good imitation of slavery; meaning the sacrifice of personal needs to render our responses perfectly suited to another person. Children know that; they consider it normal to be enslaved to the limitations of their families, unless as adults they choose to sort out and change their life on their own terms. Contrary to popular opinion character-change, the only kind that really does much is very difficult to achieve because it’s very fearful and disruptive to the very habits and attitudes in which we have believed all our life. To change significantly means to break basic taboos.

So what do children do instead of what we pretend is possible? They enslave themselves to what their families can see, admit and believe in, willing to sacrifice all of themselves if necessary in order to protect their basic connection to those who ensure their survival. They adapt themselves to believe only what their families believe. Nothing less would make them capable of comfort. If family attitudes and perceptions defy what they, in their innocence, perceive, they censor their contradictory perceptions, concealing them even from themselves behind attitudes and beliefs about their life that prevent any awareness of this dissonance from ever surfacing in their conscious mind. As the prayer says, sinning can occur not just in “deed”, but also in “thought” and “word”.

These attitudes about their life usually produce negative beliefs about themselves that may prevent them from ever contradicting anyone important in life. If children have been significantly hurt by their parents they will subsequently their whole life suffer great hurt on the unconscious premise they don’t deserve to be protected from it. They may complain about it; but they will still suffer it. Shame and guilt are always funded by this kind of undeserved and concealed self-censure.

When the human heart is reacting mostly out of spontaneous perceptions with no serious encumbrances of self-censure, or accusation of others, it deserves our delighted support. But when it runs into negative implications – for either the feeling person or their companion – instead of support it needs to be carefully explored with whatever thoroughness frees the emotion from its bonds of loyalty to false premises of shame, guilt and their repetitive daily accusations.

My additional works can be seen at this website: http://donfenn.com

What Are Dream Symbols? How to Translate Their Meaning and Transform Your Personality

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The dream language is based on symbols. A symbol is an image that gives you an idea about something else. This is why in a dream an apple, for example, doesn’t represent a fruit, but wisdom, since this is the symbolic meaning which is connected with its image.

The connection of this meaning with the image of an apple was formed in the unconscious mind that produces dreams, and also gives us religious, artistic and philosophical inclinations.

When you learn how to translate the meaning of your dreams into sentences that you can understand, you discover that a simple image gives you information about many things, because a symbol represents a huge content.

When you think about the apple as a fruit, a singular object that has an ephemeral existence, and you compare it with wisdom, which is a superior and complex capacity to judge reality after analyzing all its details, you understand the dimension that the apple acquires when it has this symbolic meaning.

Now, you may be thinking that wisdom can simply be defined by only one word; however there are dream symbols that have a complex definition, like the meaning of the snake.

The snake represents a bad event that will correct a serious mistake and work like medicine for the dreamer, besides all the painful situations that he or she will have to face. It will prevent him from continuing to make the same mistakes, and facing their consequences in the future.

This means that the snake is in fact the misfortune that will save the dreamer, since it puts an obstacle to the continuation of something bad for him, helping him correct his mistakes, and adopt a different attitude in life.

This is a definition that cannot be represented by only one word…

The same happens with the meaning of the spider, and many other dream symbols.

The spider is the hidden danger that you cannot see. It represents something very important that you have to understand or to do, otherwise you’ll have many problems.

It is the obligation that cannot be postponed, the heroic attitude that cannot be avoided, or the indispensable solution that cannot delay, because the dreamer (or his reputation) is in danger.

Many times a very small dream scene is transformed into many pages of explanations, which give a lot of information to the dreamer, when we translate its symbolism.

So, if you see a dream with an apple, a snake and a spider, you would have a very serious warning which would basically mean that: you have to be wise (apple) and adopt the right attitude without delay (spider), otherwise you’ll have to pass through many painful experiences (snake).

Now, we have to connect the dream symbols with the dreamer’s life in order to give him or her clear advice so that he or she may transform his personality in order to be balanced and happy, depending on the unconscious’ messages.

Let’s suppose that the dreamer is too lazy and ineffective. Therefore, the exact translation of the symbolism for him or her would be:

You have to be wise (apple) and stop being lazy and ineffective without delay (spider), otherwise you’ll have to pass through many painful experiences in order to transform your personality into a sensible one, and learn how to be a responsible person who works, and does all their obligations, because if you keep avoiding to work without thinking about the consequences of your irresponsibility, you’ll face many problems in the future (snake).

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness. Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com. Click Here to download a Free Sample of the eBook Dream Interpretation as a Science (86 pages!).