Understanding Dreams and Their Messages
Dreams are a wonderful tool that you can readily use to help yourself heal, grow in understanding or to gain clarity.
Dreams help to point you to all the areas in your life that need work – emotional, mental, physical and/or spiritual levels.
Dreams can be used as a barometer for your health. To achieve health and well-being you must create harmony in all life areas, not just in the physical.
When you dream, everything that you see and feel in the dream is you. Any man, woman, relative, friend, co-worker, crowd – each one in the dream is an aspect of you. You are the producer, writer, actor and director of not only your life but also your dreams. People in the dream represent qualities within yourself that you have projected onto them.
What Dreams Can Show
Dreams can show you which Chakra needs healing and attention. They can show you if you are going in the right or wrong direction in your life. They can also show you if you are stuck in your life.
Paying attention to your dreams will help to guide you, on a daily basis, to move your life forward towards your goals, but only if you pay attention to them.
The key to dreams is:
- Before going to sleep each night, say out loud that you want a dream and you want to remember that dream
- In the morning, write down the dream
- Decipher the dream symbols using The Dream Book.
Using the following techniques will help you to go within, learn about yourself and help you to eventually reach your goals:
Most Common Types of Dreams
- Nightmares
- Disaster
- Sexual
- Direction
- Costume
- Falling
- Flying
- Snake
- Money
- Death
- Chase – either you being chased or you are trying to run away
Most Common Symbols in Dreams
- Water
- House and/or rooms in the house
- Vehicles
- Greenery
- Celebrities
- Animals
- Numbers
- Colors
- Flying objects
- Road
- Food
How to Interpret A Dream
- Step 1: Write down the dream with as much detail and as fully as you can
- Step 2: List all of the main symbols – really try to break them down (don’t generalize). Once you identify them you can look them up in The Dream Book.
- Step 3: Write out your interpretation
If you are still having issues understanding the dream, you are welcome to contact Charles Rubin for a dream interpretation.
Examples of InTerpreting Dreams
Dream #1
A woman was on a bus full of Inner Light Foundation people including Betty Bethards. A man got on the bus with a dark coat and had started robbing everyone on the bus. The woman had $600 in her wallet and she was lying in her sleeping bag. She wanted to hide her wallet but her left hand was asleep. And then she woke up.
Symbols From Dream #1
- Woman: The feminine creative part of self
- Bus: A large vehicle for growth
- Inner Light Foundation People: A spiritual group, growth-conscious people
- Betty Bethards: A person’s own higher self, a spiritual teacher
- Man: The masculine, assertive, strong part of self
- Dark: The unknown
- Coat: Our cover
- Hat: The roles we play
- Robbing: Stealing energy
- $600: 6 is the White Brotherhood, your guidance…. Pay attention
- Wallet: A person’s identity
- Sleeping bag: In a cocoon, hiding in a womb
- Left hand: The receiving hand
- Asleep: Numb, passive, not allowing others to give to us
Dream Interpretation For Dream #1
The feminine part of the woman has a large capacity for creative growth. She is with a group of growth-conscious people in addition to her own higher-self or inner-teacher.
She has covered up and suppressed the strong, assertive part of herself. It’s unknown to her as she allows people to take her energy/power without ever saying no. The 6 is her teacher saying, “Look at what you are doing! Be assertive!”
She’s afraid of losing her identity but she is unable to do anything zipped up in a sleeping bag. Her inability to receive and to allow others to give back to her is the primary message of this dream.
Dream #2
A woman named Katy had a dream where she was back at the large house she grew up in as a child. She went upstairs and saw that there wasn’t any furniture. Next, she saw herself riding a bicycle with a dog that was chasing her down the street. At first she was scared but then she stopped and went over to feed the dog.
Symbols From Dream #2
- Large House: Great potential and where things begin
- Upstairs: Right direction; seeking spiritual awareness
- Furniture: Attitudes, ideas and beliefs system/how you define self
- Bicycle: Need for balance in her life
- Dog chasing her: Fear of her own assertive, strong side
- Food: Nourishing self
Dream Interpretation For Dream #2
Katy is looking to develop her own creative and spiritual potential. She started doing this as a child. Katy is going in the right direction in working on her self-growth to find the answers. She is now developing a totally new identity and awareness of self.
The key to her growth is in learning to balance her feminine, intuitive side with her masculine, strong side. To do this she needs to overcome her fear of being assertive. By taking time to nurture and take care of herself and her needs and using her emotional power and strength wisely, she will succeed.
If you would like to read more about Dreams, a link to Betty’s book, The Dream Book, is available below. In addition, if you would like to hear Betty talk about Dreams and how to interpret them, a link to her audio download is also available below.
The Dream Book
By Betty Bethards
The Dream Book by Betty Bethards has been the best selling book on dreams since 1983. It was revised and updated in 2016 with over 450 additional dream symbol definitions. The Dream Book is the most popular book on dream analysis in the world. It has exceeded sales of over a half million copies both nationally and internationally.
Dreams are your most treasured source of knowledge because the conscious mind cannot get in the way to distort the message being sent. “You can learn from this book to remember your dreams, recognize their meaning, and use them for inspiration and problem solving.” Betty says also, “Your dreams tell you what you are doing right and also what needs to be changed. Since we spend one-third of our lives in the sleep state, it is certainly to your advantage to use this time for insight.”
The Dream Book, Symbols for Self-Understanding, is divided into two parts. Part 1: Self-Understanding Through Dreams includes three chapters: the Meaning of Dreams, Working with Dreams, and Dreams and Expanded Consciousness. Part 2: Dream Symbol Dictionary lists more than 1600 of the most common dream symbols with cross references. With the latest edition, 450 more Dream Symbols have been added. you are encouraged to read Part 1 before using Part 2. Be sure to look in both symbol sections for your dream symbol.
If you prefer, you are welcome to contact Charles Rubin for a dream interpretation.
Dreams
By Betty Bethards
$18.00
This is a live, historical recording of Betty Bethards speaking on dreams. We spend one third of our lives in the dream state so if you aren’t working with your dreams you are losing free help. Dreams are one of our greatest tools for understanding ourselves.
Symbols in dreams are universal around the world. Betty explains in this seminar and her book that dreams are your most treasured source of knowledge because the conscious mind cannot get in the way to distort the message from your teachers (in other words, we can’t color or influence our dreams). Dreams give us a daily reading on what is happening in our lives. They provide a door to the super-conscious mind for insight, problem solving and higher teachings from the other side. The most valuable tools we have for helping ourselves in life are free and available to all of us. They are dreams, prayer (affirmations and visualizations), and meditation. If we take advantage of these, much of the guesswork, confusion and hardship of life can vanish or at least, be managed better.
Each seminar has two recordings: Side 1 and Side 2.
This seminar is available in two .wav files.
- Each seminar is $18.00/title
- If you are interested in all 23 titles, the price will be $269.00 (35% discount).
