Dream Interpretation for Spiritual Guidance

Your dreams are telling you important messages. Are you listening?

When we dream, we are working through our spiritual energy. That’s what I’ve learned through my explorations of meditation and inner reflection. I’ve remembered many dreams through life, and recently I was surprised to discover that most people don’t remember their dreams. No wonder they are such a hidden realm, evading the grasp of human understanding. If you don’t have a strong connection to your dreams daily, how could you continually remember your true nature — that you are a spiritual being?

I want to help you stay connected to your dream life because I believe our physical, waking life is just one part of our existence. It’s just one piece of a puzzle. Our waking life, which many people believe is our “reality”, is just a manifestation of our consciousness into the physical.

Dreams are a portal into a higher realm, and they keep you aware of who you truly are — a spirit.

Your dreams can guide you in your life if you let them. They are a compass for navigating life’s journey. They let you know what’s really going on.

Dreaming is a Higher Awareness Than Waking

When studying to become an Ayurveda teacher, I learned that ancient Vedic philosophers held the same beliefs that I’ve always held — that we are consciousness primarily. This belief was held by ancient spiritual leaders around the globe.

Adi Shankara, a Vedic philosopher from around the 8th century, gave us the wisdom of our koshas — in Sanskrit, our layers or coverings of existence — and they start with our most pure, immaterial souls, manifesting through layers of consciousness and mind, all the way to our physical realm. The Hermetica of Ancient Egypt tells us similar ideas about our existence.

In traditions of meditation, dreaming is a level of awareness that is actually higher than waking awareness. Although I believe that all levels of awareness are equally real, it makes sense that dreams are closer to our pure states of existence — our higher selves — than waking life, which is the furthest from it.

Where Do Dreams Come From?

The situations in your dreams are pure. They are where your soul exists. In sleep, our spirits aren’t bounded by the body, so we are able to go places that the physical manifestations restrict. If you think that your dreams are just symbols of something going on in your waking life, you’re half right.

Dreams are expressions of our lives on the spiritual plane. Their workings mirror waking life in the same way that waking life mirrors the spiritual realm. Since it’s all connected, dreams are a sort of symbol in the sense that they are spiritual manifestations of life.

Modern science loves to tell us that dreams are “just our subconscious” and they’re even byproducts of our brains. Think again.

What if our waking life was actually a byproduct of our spiritual existence?

Have I shifted your mindset just a teeny? Good. Now, I’ll tell you how to interpret dreams.

How to Decipher the Meaning in Dreams

Once you’ve realized that your dreams are you, in a pure form, existing without the trappings of a physical body, you can begin to understand what they mean. This is how I do it.

I think about my soul. If I was just a soul without a body, then what did my dream mean? I ask myself this.

For instance, I may have dreamed (as I often do these days) that I am in an airport trying to catch my plane, but something stands in my way. To decipher this dream, I’ll look at this situation and feel it with my heart instead of trying to think about it with my head.

Your heart knows what is going on.

Airports feel like a journey beginning. An airplane is a connection between one place and another, one identity and another, or one part of the journey of life and another. If I am being held up from catching this plane, then something is blocking me in my life’s journey.

Recently, in a dream such as this one, a small group of mafia gang members was holding me up because of some paperwork. And when I was finally ready to board the plane, the group I was traveling with had left me there and stolen my luggage! I was fuming. To understand this, I also feel into this situation. I absorb its meaning in my heart.

I don’t take it at face value.

The mafia is a highly organized group that operates above the rules. Rules, in dreams, can be the laws of nature or the limitations of life. Actually, in this dream, the mafia members were nice to me. I think perhaps they were spiritual beings, not bounded by the physical; not operating within the laws of nature like me. They perhaps held me up from my flight (my journey) because I myself couldn’t see that if I boarded this plane with the group, it would take me to the wrong destination in life.

Any travel in a dream is life’s journey and any group you might be traveling with are other people who are moving on your journey with you. In my dream, it was no longer the best move for me to keep following the crowd I’ve been with.

I take it to mean that my spiritual guides, whoever they are, have helped avert me from taking the wrong path.

In your dreams, all you have to do is feel into the heart meaning. Understand how you exist in this world. You live in several layers; the physical, waking layer being just one among many.

I often wonder if our whole physical manifestation is created the way dream manifestations are created — somehow appearing out of spiritual “heart stuff” to put meaning in front of us to touch, feel, taste, hear, and understand.

Trust That There’s a Realm Beyond the Physical

You will be better equipped to allow dreams to guide you when you surrender to your intuition. If you dream that people were trying to kill you while your daily life felt secure and calm, then you should re-assess your perceptions of life. There’s a whole layer of existence beyond what you think you see. Give in to it.

When you’re too attached to the idea that the mind is the same as the brain, and your dreams are just silly images produced wildly by your subconsciousness, you won’t get very far with dream interpretation.

We have a collective soul that shares images and symbols. We all tap into the same archetypal energy, and our dreams show us messages in universal ways. Ways that we can all understand.

Cultures throughout human history knew about these symbols and archetypes. Their meanings show up in totem animals, symbolism in ancient tombs, religious texts, and basically everywhere. They have been around since forever and they’re nothing new. Dreams contain meaning and symbolism you aren’t aware of sometimes because buried somewhere deep in your soul, there is a connection to the collective consciousness where these symbols live.

In waking life it may be difficult to keep this connection.

Dreams are messages from the divine about the meaning of your life. Let them guide you.