People often interpret dream symbols universally, like "water means abundance" or "falling means loss of control." These interpretations stem from psychological theories I fundamentally disagree with, based on 35 years of studying dreams.
My evolving understanding regarding dreams is that, equipped with a certain quality of consciousness, curiosity and attention, humans access omnipresent, gradation bands of information flow from which we are not separate. Sleep state (among others) gives access to information and processes not available to the awake state. I do not experience dreams as symbolic, but as information requiring my participation via transduction (as in, transmission of one form of energy/signal to another, e.g.) in order to piece together a coherence using the dream's raw material of visuals, words, feeling, etc. What also intrigues me about dreams is the synchronicities of catching the particularized, unique dreams from a timeless, vast information field.
My evolving understanding regarding dreams is that, equipped with a certain quality of consciousness, curiosity and attention, humans access omnipresent, gradation bands of information flow from which we are not separate. Sleep state (among others) gives access to information and processes not available to the awake state. I do not experience dreams as symbolic, but as information requiring my participation via transduction (as in, transmission of one form of energy/signal to another, e.g.) in order to piece together a coherence using the dream's raw material of visuals, words, feeling, etc. What also intrigues me about dreams is the synchronicities of catching the particularized, unique dreams from a timeless, vast information field.