Olog

Ever had the classic “examination” dream? You dream you’re late for class and miss the exam, or you can’t find the classroom, or you haven’t studied or you studied the wrong subject. You panic. Upon awakening, you might dismiss the dream as irrelevant — after all you haven’t been a student for years. Or you may instantly sense how the dream reflects what’s going on in your life. Perhaps the dream dramatizes how ill prepared you feel to handle a work project or reminds you to write a report you’d forgotten about.

Most of us pay little attention to our dreams. The impression in western society is that dreams are the province of psychoanalysts seeking to unlock mysteries of neuroses and psychoses. But, in fact, dreams can be very useful tools for self-discovery and problem solving. It takes just a bit of practice to learn dream interpretation.