Lessons & Tests:

 Dreams...

 Witchcraft and Dreams

 What do dreams reveal?

 Why do we dream?

 Why is it necessary to dream?

 What methods are used for interpretation?

 Are dreams fact or fantasy?

 Do dreams come true?

 Symbols in Dreams

 What do dreams mean?

 How do I interpret a dream?

 How are these like my life?

 How can I help the dream?

 Preparing to remember.

 Tools that assist in Dreaming.

 Closure

DREAMS...

I have had so many emails from students asking about dreams, and their meanings, that I decided to
create a course about Dreams. I have only little knowledge about what dreams mean, so I will share the
little that I know. For more information you can yourself do more research from friends, psychics and
from the multitude of resources that are widely available. 

I hope that by the end of this introductory course, you will be able to understand your dreams a little
better, and that you may do further research on them. I myself, keep a personal dream journal, of my
most remarkable dreams, the ones that to me - seem to be more real than others. This is a good practice
to keep, especially if you feel “enlightened” when you wake from your dream. You will begin to see a
pattern in your dreams, and that they will begin to give you a clearer glimpse of your inner-self. They
may even give you a solid understanding of your connection with Spirit.

Prophetic dreams are a common part of witch mythology. In Ancient Greece the priestess of the Temple
of Apollo would use herb-lore to induce dream-like states during sacred festivals. During these altered
states the priestess-witches would tell of their visions, containing weird imagery, puzzles and ciphers.

During rituals, modern witches use the same kind of guided dreaming to impart knowledge, excite
purpose or free the imaginations of other coven members. A witch can also use this guided dreaming on
her own. Guided dreaming is known by many names: 

 Creative visualisation

 Conscious meditation

 Daydreaming

But it is all the same, and witches have long used the force of the gently led conscious to obtain
knowledge, wisdom and information about the future.

There are many common dream themes and it is interesting to note that many of us dream alike. The
difference is what we dream, means different things, to each individual. You are the only person who
can interpret your own dream. Yet it will help if you have some basic guidelines to adopt and to help you
interpret what happened in your dreams last night.

There are many, many dream themes, subjects and topics that play the major roles in your dreams.
Some of the most common dream themes are; death, money, water, and so on.

Some of these most common themes, of course, we will be discussing a little later in another section.

We dream while we are asleep, because our subconscious is trying to give us messages. And our sleep is
to restore our energy. Up until the late 1940’s it was believed that when we sleep our brains “shut up
shop”. And in 1951, it was discovered that the eye movements were very rapid in certain stages of sleep,
and this phenomenon is known as R.E.M, or Rapid Eye Movement. For some people dreaming is the only
creative thing that they ever do in their lives, and it is thought that the brain works harder while we
sleep than when we are awake.

Even though some say they never dream, everyone dreams. This is often because that they are not
interested in dreaming, it is just that some chose not to acknowledge that they do, but if they were
awakened during their REM sleep then they will be able to recall their dream. Some people who have
highly creative, and/or highly stressed related jobs seem to totally shut off, totally when they sleep.

Many dreams show that the incidents that happen to us the day of the dream. It seems that the
subconscious loves to pick up and picture these simple daily movements. 
To dream is to receive messages from yourself, learn to listen to yourself, your psyche, your
subconscious, and your inner-self will help guide you in your ordinary outer life.

Everything in a dream is symbolic, and to interpret the dream, it is necessary to know and feel the
emotion of the dream, be it sadness, happiness, sensuality etc. Real events can seemingly be replayed in
a dream. But their importance for us goes far beyond the limits of what they literally seem to be. Thus
the emotion of the dream dictates the inner meaning of the dream.

Dreams throw out pictures of our childhood self. With images that we have created - they do not lie.
Often in dreams unwelcomed fantasies are to due to our waking fantasies which we have carefully
suppressed.

Yes. Dreams can come true. Predictive dreams and telepathic dreams are very rare, but they do occur.
To see something happen in your dreams that actually does happen, can be quite scary, yet if your
dream is dealing with an unresolved problem it does not come true. If the problem is a real life situation,
then you have truth. Families often have the same dream, and this is due their close emotional ties.

Telepathic dreams depict a dreamers’ account of knowledge of something that the dreamer has no
possible way of knowing.

Symbols in Dreams

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

Did you kiss a frog in your dream? Or was money falling from trees? They are, as previously discussed
some of the more common dream themes, check them out for clues to the real meanings of your
dreams. For symbols that I have not listed here, try to research more about dreams from resources at
your local library, maybe on the internet, or even try a psychic, or dream analyst. 

Here I have chosen the “Top 12” dream symbols. 

1. Kisses
Kisses represent acceptance and release. A passionate lip lock that lasts for a long time indicates that
you are letting go of old problems. A passionate frontal kiss also signifies new beginnings. 

A dream of “unseen kisses”, when you can feel a phantom lover kissing your body, is your subconscious
alerting you to trust your intuition as concerns day-to-day situations. 

2. Money
Money in your dreams indicates that good luck is coming your way. Your subconscious is alerting you to
have a more positive attitude so that all types of fortune can more easily find you. The amount of money
and how it comes to you are the most significant factors. 

Dreaming of finding money indicates that you will soon benefit from a friendship.

A dream that includes picking up a penny off the ground could indicate that friends or family are about
to disappoint you. 

Big bills, winning the lottery and large amounts of gold coins are all indicators of good luck in the near
future. 

A small amount of money in most situations usually means that you are being given less than you
deserve by someone close to you.

3. Water
Water can symbolize many things in dreams. A pool of water can represent your emotional nature, or
the maternal womb. Still water represents a calm state of mind. Deep water represents emotional
maturity. A running river in a dream represents the “Stream of Life” and then to see tidal waves or
waves crashing on shore may represent power beyond your control or strong sexual urges. Moving
through water represents an acceptance of changes in your emotional attitude. 

If you panic in your dream, because you are swimming but not getting anywhere, this may represent the
consequences of your internal stubbornness. The desire to get to the edge of a pool is the mind’s need
for the security of logic over emotion. 

Water also symbolises our moral state, as well as terrestrial and natural life, but not the metaphysical.
Many cultures and religions have powerful gods, or semi-divine figures associated with water, and these
represent the “life giving force”. For example, the Chinese consider water the specific abode of the
Dragon, and believe that all life comes from the waters. The association of the Dragon and Water is very
common in Archaic Chinese texts, for which reason the dragon becomes the connecting link between
Water and Earth. 

In the general sense, the symbol of water in your dream stands for fluidity, and change or the element in
which creation occurs. Water, out of all the elements is the most transitional, as it is between Fire and
Air. It is a mediator between life and death.

4. Nudity
Nudity in dreams represents vulnerability. Without the barrier of clothes your inner self and true
feelings are exposed to those whom you would prefer didn’t know the real you. 
When someone else is naked in your dreams, it represents your psyche undergoing changes. If it is an
older man or authority figure, your decision-making ability is under severe assault. If a child or other
vulnerable person is disrobed indicates that a crossroads is approaching and you may be forced to speak
up and demand that your rights and feelings be considered. 

5. Loss of a valuable object

Lost or misplaced items indicate frustration with a current situation that won’t change without drastic
action. The actual lost item explains your frustration. 

Something that holds sentimental value may indicate frustration in a family or love relationship. 

Lost money indicates frustration with financial issues or frustration with a friendship dominated by the
other person. 

A missing person means you’re losing touch with part of yourself. 

A common object represents the everyday world. 

Not being able to find it, an object illustrates increasing frustration about the situation. 

6. Colors
Colors have very deep meaning in dreams. They represent the immediate future and their significance
increases based on the amount of a color in a particular dream. For example, receiving a green box may
mean that you will be going on a short trip. Walking into a green room means a much longer vacation is
headed your way. 

Blue indicates that a new friend will come into your life. 

Black means solitude or loneliness is ahead. 

Brown symbolizes safety and security. 

White represents authority and absolutes. 

Red means your devotion to someone is about to be challenged. 

Green represents travel. 

Yellow is the color of illness, alerting you to take better care of yourself. 
Purple represents aloofness or one-on-one time with your mate. It also represents your connection to
spiritual matters.

Orange indicates sexual tension; a reminder to remember your sexual needs. 

7. Flying
Flying is extremely common in dreams and usually represents frustration or unhappiness. It also can
represent a lack of control over your life or indicate that your own inflated ego is causing unhappiness,
sending a strong message that you should take control of your life. Flying can also signify exhibitionistic
wishes, sexual pleasure, and the desire to recapture childhood. 

8. Running
Running in dreams illustrates that your goals are out of reach if you stay on your current path. Usually,
running means drastic change in your life is required. 

If you dream of running from someone, it indicates a relationship from the past has some loose ends
that need tying up. If you are running to meet someone in a dream, you should reconsider your current
relationship. If you are running in a marathon or parade, you might consider changes in your
employment situation. 

9. Sex 
Though a sexual dream may be about pleasure, it doesn’t signal physical intimacy with the person in
your dream. Sex in a dream is not a prediction of things to come. But it could be about power, success,
sexual potency, manipulation or even your subconscious rewarding you for a job well done. 

Your sex partner in a dream represents a side of your personality that is developing. Dreaming of sex
with a friend means you are becoming a better friend to all of your friends. A dream of sex with a
relative can be a stressful thought, but actually means you are on better terms with your family. Sex
with someone from your school indicates that you are becoming a better student. 

10. Fear
Being frightened in a dream can often be the dreamers’ other side or the shadow of himself lashing out
at itself in a dream, this side usually frightens so that the dream can be remembered. By remembering
the emotion of a dream you have the opportunity to understand what you subconsciously fear. This
understanding of that fear will help you to face that fear and to move forward in your everyday life.
Check yourself for the feeling that your dream left you with when you wake, it may be a feeling of loss,
of embarrassment, of weakness, of anger, or of fear. During your waking hours, you may be trying to
avoid a side of yourself which leads to such feelings, look at this side, and decide what you can do to try
to change it.

11. House
The subconscious has chosen the image of the house as a symbol of our physical body, and its healthy or
unhealthy state. You may have never given a thought about the importance of this symbol. Our inner-
selves should be cared for as much as our outer-selves. 

The bedrooms represent our privacy, and emotional areas and the need for rest and renewal. The
basement is the subconscious parts of ourselves. The kitchen represents sharing and the bathroom
represents cleanliness and elimination. The living-room, or sitting room represents our abilities to
communicate and to socialise. The hallway represents the roads within which leads us to grow and
discover. The steps represent the essential ideas of ascension and of graduation and again
communication and of different levels of consciousness. 

The house in a dream represents our physical body. The actual state of the house, represent the overall
condition of our bodies, therefore, the more rundown of the house seems in a dream the more the body
is in need or repair or how rundown the body is due to age, illness, debilitation and so on.

The different levels of the house represent the two different aspects of our higher or lower aspects of
our spiritual selves. The roof and upper levels of the house, represents the head, the mind and spiritual
connections. The basement and lower floors of the house represents the more physical, practical
aspects.

12. Death
Dreaming of death can be traumatic but it is actually an indicator of life events. Witnessing a death in
your dream usually coincides with major changes in life, like starting a new year of school or moving to a
new apartment. Death can illustrate endings as well as beginnings. What can seem unbearably sad as a
dream may actually signal positive change. 

No two dreams are ever exactly the same. You may dream of the same thing, but each repeated dream
is unique in its own way. The dreaming state is a place for us to relax and a place for us to receive
messages. It is also a state of being where the real self, known as the subconscious, is able to reveal and
relate to the conscious mind. 

Even for those who experience recurring dreams are being sent subconscious messages. Your mind uses
these recurring dreams to solve problems, which are an indicator that you are nearing a major
breakthrough and your mind is rehearsing for the changes on the horizon.

In ancient times, dreams were used as a method of focusing on present and future situations. The
people that took the warnings that their dreams were foretelling, would make changes in their state of
affairs to avoid possible disaster, or if they where good dreams would continue to strive, anticipating
good things to come. 

By knowing the correct interpretation of a dream, only then can we change our approach or thought
pattern, to improve and to change some aspect of our life!

Detailed in the next few pages, are general questions that are asked concerning common dreams to help
you decipher your dream and its meaning. Just as each piece of a puzzle are placed together to make an
entire picture, all parts of the dream should be placed together to get the full meaning.

How do I interpret a dream?

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

Many people wonder how the symbols seen in their dreams can be interpreted into something that
makes actual sense. This is much harder than it actually sounds, but it can be done. Each individual is
unique and their dream messages are also unique to them. Two people can have the exact same dream,
but their individual meanings can be totally different in their meanings to each of those people, as we
have already discussed.

Here are a few variations and steps to consider when you try to interpret your dreams.

How then can I learn to interpret a dream? 

I can give you some popular ways to interpret the meaning of a dream - that I have found in my further
researches - but be sure to realise that different approaches and techniques produce a variety of
different answers. Test all the answers and interpretations out against your own sense of truth. Dreams
are personal, so decipher what they mean to YOU.

How do I test the truth of an interpretation? 

One way is to use a set of test questions and not rely on just one:
1. Does the answer feel right?
2. Does the interpretation make sense?
3. Is there something useful I can do with this interpretation?
4. What would my mom or a truck driver have to say about this answer if I were to tell them? 
How do I interpret my dream? 

The two most popular techniques are to take the dream as being subjective (about yourself) and that it
is speaking metaphorically. 

Say you have this dream: "I had a dream that I was with my mother in a house, and we decided to go to
church... "

Subjectively it would read:

I had a dream that I was with my mother (-part of me) in a house (-part of me/my physical body) and we
decided to go to church (-part of me/my spirit)...

Now let's look at the parts metaphorically. In this example we can use a metaphorical technique I call
functional generalization. Change those parts of your to something functional, what they DO such as:

mother - A maternal figure, a feminine part of myself that is closely related to me and helps in the
family, or plays a maternal role either at home or work, a Matriarch.

house - A receptacle, one that holds physical and spiritual parts of myself, a collective part of myself.

going to church - Going to a religious or organized or mystical or meaningful part of myself.

Now re-write the whole dream using the translations and make a story out of the parts. Feel free to
embellish and add new associations and thoughts that come to you. 

Here is one re-write:

I had a dream that I was with the feminine party that has been with me since childhood. We entered a
part of myself that, looked upon me or my physical well being. I go with the feminine part of myself, to
the place where I create meaning and value in life.

Naturally, when you do, do your own re-write, the meanings and associations will be quite different. But
this will give you some idea on how the symbols can be used to translate the dream into a meaningful
message, memory, experience or even enlightenment.

How are these like my life?

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

How can they change and make my life more productive and creative? You can test this by watching the
reactions of your body. Get a whole sense of emotion from the dream. Notice where in your body your
are feeling the most as you read and re-write the dream. After finding where you are feeling the most,
ask "What is this feeling?" Don't go into it, just hang out at the edge and try out various handles or
names, "Sad?" then listen and see if there is much of a reaction. "Happy?" Again, wait, listen to the place
that feels the most. If you say something that resonates a little with the feeling’s place, it will move or
shift.

Watch for shifts and the "Ah ha!" reactions. Once you find the right word, say it again, then listen to that
place and note what happens. This is your feeling or emotional connection to the meaning and hence, to
the value of the dream.

How can I help the dream?

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

What resources do I have that will allow me to help the parts of the dream to change, mutate and
become what it most essentially is? What is the dream showing me that I don't already know?

We want to be careful that we don't just use the dream for our purposes and life. That would be like
making friends so we can use them. Rather, make it a counterpart interaction. Make a friend of your
dreams. Like all friends, they have nice and ugly sides and moods, good and bad days, and needs that
may not be our own. We may not be able to answer to all their needs, but we can be sensitive to them.

I know that this may sound really silly to some, to be sensitive to what the dream wants. But it is
essential for a deeper understanding and meaningful relationship to any part of life. This sensitivity to
objects can be practiced at the level of dream. See the dream as a subject to befriend, even if it holds up
a mirror to yourself that is hard to look into. The more nightmarish the dream, the more it has to offer
you and your relationship with the universe. Just like a friend who you share the innermost secrets
about yourself to, accepting the willingness of the friend, is an overall benefit of that friendship. 

If you feel the lesson of the dream for you is too harsh or critical, then the interpretation is simply
wrong. Any interpretation that doesn't offer you a gift, a way of being more than yourself before
encountering the dream, is simply diminishing both you and the dream.

Keep the dream and its interpretations and the feelings, the senses, and the emotions with you
throughout the day and notice where they apply in events during the day and what changes or different
reactions and actions you can make with this new knowledge. 

Try to stick with the dream image, which includes the feelings, the senses, and the emotions of the
dream. I think in a sense all dreams have a vision aspect to them. If there was a unique or special feeling
to the dream, be sure to keep that alive however you can, telling the dream, drawing it, painting,
sculpture, or whatever you do to keep special feelings alive. 
From that point, the points of feeling expression, my guess is that something unknown will occur, a
chance meeting, something you read, a conversation, that will further develop the feeling and allow the
spirit of the dream to flow.

Preparing to remember.

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

In order to recollect your dream, it is essential to set up a peaceful time before sleep. Don’t watch news
or read newspapers before going to bed; they are full of tragedy and violence which could easily affect
your dream sphere. Read quietly, meditate, be quiet and reflect.

If possible, make your bedtime the same hour each night. A routine will help you have a refreshing sleep
as well as induce the dreaming state. Alcohol and drugs may seem to create wild, amazing dreams, but
they will actually interfere with your own personal dream process. It is best to refrain from excessive
drinking before bedtime (and of course, at any time) as it will simply make your sleep shallow, less
restful and less peaceful, which will make you more stressed and will show up in your dreams, and later
in health.

Keep your personal dream journal either with you in bed or close by your bed for quick and easy access,
with your special pen always within easily reach. Burn some incense, choosing from frankincense,
marjoram, lavender or even some essential oils that will not excite you, but that will help you to drift off
into a peaceful, relaxed sleep.

As you feel yourself leaving the conscious world, you might like to repeat this little passage;

“Sights for my mind

Knowledge for my heart
Strange treasures unwind
Let my dreaming start.”

If you like, you can scratch runes into your headboard or dream journal. This need not be blatant – you
don’t need people prying into your personal realms. This is a personal and private practice, especially
when you are still and initiate.

Upon wakening, either during the night or in the morning, immediately record any impressions from
your dreams into your journal. Keep a special section of your journal free for these scribbles, which will
just about always seem, and will always look, incoherent, but they are extremely important, as they are
the symbols with which you can begin to interpret your dreams. Pay particular attentions to the
following:
Colours, images, landscapes, numbers, people, temperatures and physical sensations. Where are you?

What feelings were you left with?

Write down as much information that you can remember from your dream. Be honest, and whatever
you do, don’t embellish the dreams. Don’t change details to make them seem more understandable, the
important thing is to write exactly what you saw in your dream, whether is seems mundane or wild.

Every one of your dreams is unique and every one of your dreams is significant.

Tools that assist in Dreaming.

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

This lesson would not be complete if I did not mention the “tools” that aid and stimulate the themes and
the actual occurrences of your dreams. You can create beautiful stimuli to enrich your dream life, such
as dream-catchers, and dream-arrows. Take your dream tool and suspend it above your bed. You can
also suspend them above the entrance of a door or window to your bedroom. The tool will help focus
your energies on dreaming and create greater lucidity, recall and attract more meaningful dreams into
your life.

Closure...

[ Introduction to Dreams | MyWitchSchool.com ]

I am sure you will find that this realm will become an endless source of wisdom for you throughout your
life. Enjoy the experiences that it brings and embrace the now known part of your inner self.

Blessed Be Well
Rev. Wendy Eversen
Correllian Clergy.