What Are Dream Symbols?
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 wi
Dream symbols are the way our subconscious mind communicates with us. Dream symbols are metaphors. A metaphor uses images that are NOT literal representations of something to communicate an idea, concept or experience. Dream symbols can be much more intense than simply seeing words in our dreams. Symbols communicate much more depth than simple words can. Dreams are much like movies that take place within our own mind or imagination. Just like a movie, there is a story or a theme to the dream. And like many movies, there is often a “moral to the story” of the dream. Interpreting the symbols accurately is the key to understanding the messages your dreams are sending you.
