The Healing Power of Dreams

By Kathyrine Legaspi

Have you ever wondered about  the meaning of your dream?  Have you ever thought about how dreams can help us whether it be discover something new about us, an inner emotion or desire that we never knew we had until we dreamed about it?

This book explores the meaning, impact and healing power of dreams.  It makes the case that dreams can be powerful tools for understanding who we are; that they are sending us a message if only we can understand its contents correctly.

Dreams are a window into our soul but we need the right guide and compass to interpret its often esoteric meaning.  This book will help you understand your dreams, including lucid dreaming, and by doing so will help empower you to understand the myriad of ways dreams can help heal the soul.

Topics include:

Characteristics of Dreams
Dream Symbols
Types of Dreams
Lucid Dreaming & Techniques
Dream Meanings
The Healing Power of Dreams

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fusion Publications
• Release date: Dec 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386615866

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Dreams     8   

II. Characteristics of Dreams  11

III. Dream Symbols     16

IV. Types of Dreams    20

V. Lucid Dreaming     29

VI. Lucid Dreaming Techniques  35

VII. Dreams and their Meanings  42

VIII. Dream Symbols    54

IX. The Healing Power of Dreams  64

Chapter 1

DREAMS

All individuals, except those people with sleep disorders, undergo a certain process while they are asleep. This process is better known as dreaming. As a matter of fact, most experts believe that people sleep in order to dream. Furthermore, experts explained that majority of the dreaming process occur when one is having a Rapid Eye Movement (REM) Sleep. In cases that one is deprived of an REM sleep, an individual’s nervous system will make up for it at a later date.

According to medical and scientific studies, the actual state of dreaming is considered a physical or physiological occurrence. However, the content of one’s dream is more of psychological. It is the product of the individual’s unconscious mind collaborating with one’s conscious experiences.

There are instances when an individual could not understand or interpret what he or she dreamt of. It is because dreams are a bit creative in a sense that they make use of symbols. Most of these symbols are representations of events, feelings, or matters related to one’s personal life. However, there are those images termed as archetypal images, meaning these images have nothing to do with the individual’s personal life.

Carl Jung, a renowned psychologist, explained that these archetypal images come from the collective knowledge known to mankind. In layman’s term, these are symbols recognizable to mankind across all time periods. Furthermore, his theory stated that these archetypal images are linked to very profound emotional matters, such as earlier life experiences, in contrast to typical dream images which are pertinent to current emotional