Dream Interpretation

Your cells communicate in the language of images, which is the archetypal nature of human consciousness, a human language that comes before speech, and children show it plainly, since children feel before they speak, they dance and sing and hum and dream before they speak. When something inside you is working itself out, your cells bring it forward in a form it can travel in, and one of those forms is a dream, so a dream arrives full of archetypal narrative and meaning and story, and it tells the story of yourself, of the parts of you and what you are struggling with, or what still waits to be addressed by the consciousness alive in your cells.

A picture can say a thousand words, and your cells know it. They work toward psycho-emotional homeostasis, toward healing, and healing begins by revealing, so the dreams that come arrive as revelations, bringing forward exactly what is relevant and what benefits exploring further, which is simply how the Syntropic nature of our Human Ecology works.

Years of programming and attention held on the external, along with what I call the overuse and misuse of the intelligence, leave many of us numb to that world of image and story, while it keeps running quietly underneath, speaking all the while and ready the moment you turn toward it. I first heard the phrase the language of images as a young man, in a school I sat in then, and it was twenty odd years later that it landed in me as something lived in my own body, and my dream world has been off the Richter charts ever since.

The way I work is navigating the internal landscape, where we drop into the heart space, which is the subconscious mind, and navigate it consciously. Hypnotherapy sets the conscious mind aside and works on the subconscious directly. Here your awareness comes with you, and you stay present for all of it.

Your willingness opens the way in, since coming into awareness willingly tells yourself and your body, I know this information is stored here, my conscious mind cannot reach it, and I am willing to come into awareness, and your body hears that and provides the most optimal, effective and efficient means for you to see what is moving beneath the surface. What our willingness does, it dissolves our judgment, and it opens us up for curiosity, and there is an intrinsic surrender that comes with being willing.

A nightmare performs a function with purpose, and knowing that lets the judgment drop so curiosity can step in. From there you get to express what took place on the inside, right as you wake or later with a friend or confidant when it feels like too much to hold alone, and expressing it acknowledges that the message was real. While the meaning still waits, a different question is open to you: what is the function here, what is being communicated to me?

That question steps you out of the dream so you can look at it from the onlooker’s perspective, and there the insight shows itself, since something inside you is restructuring and shifting and the dream carried the report. The cells carry messages, always performing a function with purpose, and a nightmare is simply the message sent loud.

A dream means what your own cells are saying to you, so the meaning belongs to the dreamer and lives in the dreamer’s life, and water, a house, a chase each land differently in each life, which is why a dictionary of symbols stays thin and why I take your story in with the dream. We can make our own spiritual froopy land turn into self-fulfilling prophecies all the time, so I hold every reading to the test I hold every idea to, which is whether the pattern stands in nature and in your waking days, and where it does we have found something real.

Sometimes what surfaces arrives as an inconvenient truth, and since a truth is there to set you free, the question stays the same one: how do I make use of this?

Sit with the dream and write it out, then ask right from the get-go, what are my cells translating here for me, how does this have meaning to me, where does this have meaning in a part of my life I have yet to enter? Keep something to write with within arm’s reach and write the moment you wake, ahead of speaking and ahead of reaching for a phone, since the images fade inside the first minute and they stay for years once they sit on paper. Going to sleep willing to remember does real work here too, since willingness is what opens this whole layer, and fragments count, one image, one feeling, one room is plenty to interpret.

I don’t know what it means is where many stop, and it is exactly the place where the training begins, the conscious level learning to question the function and lean in with willingness, willing and curious, willing and curious, willing and curious.

Receiving the images comes easily to me, and since I know the cells are communicating, the question arrives on its own, what are the cells saying? When you share a dream we interpret it together, taking the images as they came, finding what your cells are translating and looking at where it asks to be met in your waking life, and where something deeper opens we can navigate straight into it, using the same Self Memory Retrieval work at the heart of the Syntropic Embodiment Journey, so that a part who spoke in the dream can be met and walked home through the Re-Membering process. Your first dream is a gift, and everything that grows from it is shaped between us.

You write the dream out exactly as it came and send it to me, and your first dream is a gift. Once it has reached me you book a time for us to meet over Zoom, and we interpret it together face to face, while the images are still warm, because a dream opens best between two people who can feel each other and follow it inward right there in the session.

When that first dream shows that your cells have more to say, we walk a Dream Journey together: a season of dreams read archetypally through the lens of Syntropic Wisdom and tracked as a sequence, with our Zoom sessions woven through it, so the story your cells are telling shows itself whole, chapter by chapter. We shape the journey and its gratitude offering in conversation, once we both know what we are stepping into.

Inside the Syntropic Embodiment Journey, eight to twelve weeks long, your dreams become live working material, tracked as a sequence across the weeks, and the Journey finds its shape and its offering in conversation, as we come to know what we are stepping into together.

What wakes here is dormant innate wisdom and dormant innate skill, unlocking as your conscious mind trains in questioning the function and leaning in with willingness, until you become the master navigator of your own internal landscape and, further along, a master Dream Interpreter in your own right, translating the images and feelings and stories and making real use of them.

Dreams arrive as a gift from your inner world to your conscious mind, helping it understand what it is dealing with and what is transforming, and sometimes showing very clearly what needs your eyes, and the same movement runs through the five imprints, where the imprinting behind these images is mapped, through navigating the internal landscape, and on into the Re-Membering process, where a part that speaks in a dream gets walked home.