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How to Understand Your Dreams

Here are the secret keys to dream interpretation and 3 ways that working with a dream opened me up to a deeper understanding of my myself.

Michele Lynch
8 min readJan 20, 2021
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When I tell almost anyone that I’m a Depth Psychologist who works with dreams — I’m met with excitement—they often have a dream they want me to decipher for them.

I get it, who wouldn’t want an expert’s dream analysis?

Dreams arouse us. They tease us with their cryptic messages. And sometimes we can’t shake the feelings they leave us with. We know they mean something, but what? We might google or ask our friends what they think. We have this compulsion to make sense of the non-sensical.

Even though our conscious minds wants answers about our dreams — there’s a catch: our minds don’t speak the same language that our dreams do so they can’t understand.

The secret key to dream interpretation is learning their language.

Our minds speak in words, but dreams speak in symbols, images, myths and metaphors. Our minds operate logically, but dreams defy logic. They lure is in with charged energy and mysterious stories. They drop in things to get our attention, certain people or objects, but dreams are…

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Michele Lynch
Michele Lynch

Written by Michele Lynch

Writer, dreamer, creator, lover, dancer, choreographer, explorer, life-long seeker. *www.MicheleLynchHealing.com

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