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Just don’t consult them if you’re seriously interested in the meaning of your dreams. Or repurpose them as creative muses, turning to random pages for symbols to play with in your art or meditations. If you’ve got dream dictionaries on your bookshelf or on your kindle, try to discern whether they’re of the helpful variety that offer suggestions to start you off on your path of enquiry, or whether they’re best disposed of. It is extremely unlikely that your unique unconscious meaning for a shell will be listed in a dream dictionary. It will, instead, need to be found through other methods of dream work. Then add to this the fact that our dreams process our unconscious experiences as well as our conscious experiences, and the reason why you dreamed of a shell may be lost to your conscious associating mind. Or an infinite number of other possibilities depending on your life experiences. But then we also have our own individual associations with shells, perhaps a precious shell you found during a difficult time in your life, or the shells you used to create your first artwork at school, artwork that was admired or shamed, or the particular type of shell that you associate with a particular beach that is meaningful for you. However, many others might see a shell as delicate, easily broken, not at all protective, and still others might think of a shell as being empty, devoid of life. Many people will share a feeling that a shell is a protection for a vulnerable soft-bodied animal, suggesting a universal meaning of ‘protection’. Our dream symbols are personal and unique to ourselves as individuals. I’m interested in the context of the ring or the tree – or the tree ring perhaps – what happens to it, how it made you feel, how it played its part in your dream story. I’m not so interested, at first, in the ring or the tree. If you choose to learn my methods, you’ll quickly appreciate the value and accuracy of approaching a dream from this perspective.

I’d start with looking at the overall storyline of the dream, and only examine the individual symbols – if at all – further into the session. If you were to come to me with a dream about a ring or a tree, I wouldn’t start with considering what the ring or tree meant. I’m using them to illustrate different dream dictionary approaches. I’m not offering or endorsing these meanings.

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Some dream dictionaries list absolute meanings (for example, a ring means a marriage, a tree means a family with each branch representing different branches of the family), while other dream dictionaries list suggestions (for example, a ring might mean a commitment, or a sense of completion, or coming full circle, or being a ring-in for something, and a tree might mean the tree of life, a family tree, something growing in your life, or the many branches of your being). Unfortunately, dream dictionaries generally fall into the ‘at worse’ category.Ī dream dictionary is a book that lists dream symbols and gives meanings for these symbols. Dream dictionaries, at best, may give you some starting points, some ideas about what your dream symbols may or may not mean, and, at worse, they can lead you very far away from any helpful and meaningful interpretation. Not because I’m about to recommend an easy to use and accurate dream dictionary, but because there’s no such thing.

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