The Lost Language Of Dreams

Contents:

1. A NOTE ON THE DESIGN OF THIS WEBSITE
2. PRACTICAL BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH DREAMS
3. FREUD, JUNG, DREAMS, SNAKES AND MYTHOLOGY
4. DREAMS, SNAKES AND MYTHOLOGY
5. SAMPLE DREAM INTERPRETATIONS
6. SAMPLE ORACLE CARD READING

1: A NOTE ON THE DESIGN OF THIS WEBSITE

It has been drawn to our attention that the reaction to the appearance of this website is, in the main, that it is dated, and lacking in technical expertise.  The reality is that it is ahead of its time!  Let us explain:

The above reaction is based on a comparison of this website with the current slickest commercial sites.  The works of artists are not usually compared to that of advertisers and commercial concerns, and it is just as inappropriate to do so here.  That is to say, it is appropriate to approach this site in the way that you would approach a work of art.

As people whose interest is in dreams, it is understandable that our concern is with visual communication.  The design of the site is a visual communication, not a sales pitch.

Let us give an example: when Picasso started out, his work was very realistic.  As time went by, he moved away from realism, largely under the influence of tribal art from countries in Africa.  When he started to produce paintings featuring people with the eyes in the ‘wrong’ place etc, people thought the work crude and incompetent.  Looking back, we can see that, in fact, he was ahead of his time. 

We make that claim for the visual appearance of this site: it is ahead of its time.

The other aspect of the adverse reaction is that the site does not feature the latest technical innovations, and is not designed using the latest software.  The site was designed on a word processor.  We did not use Photoshop or any other software. 

This is not lack of technical expertise.  This is advanced technical expertise. 

As a physicist, Joan started working with computers in the 1970s, when there was no commercial software.  She did all her own programming.  She knows and understands computers.  She knows and understands why current commercial practices are bad news, and technically incompetent.  Current practices are not designed with competence in mind, they are designed to impress.  The two are incompatible.  We have opted to forgo the obvious impressiveness, and opt for technical competence instead.  As with the art side of things, so with the technical side of things, our claim is that we are ahead of our time.

Proof of assertions:  We can do what they do.  Can they do what we do?  No!

2: PRACTICAL BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH DREAMS

The following list describes what working with dreams has done for us in practical terms.

Improvements in professional life are:

• reduction in workload
• improved productivity
• improved decision making skills
• improved ability to prioritise
• improved interpersonal skills
• enabled promotion to managerial position
• improved concentration, focus and goal setting
• can take change in one’s stride
• more self confidence
• better memory
• can learn new skills and/or abilities very quickly
• developed ability to ‘think on one’s feet 

Improvements in personal life are:

• more time to do what one wants to do
• more independent and self-sufficient
• can think for oneself with no need to rely on other people
• make correct decisions between conflicting advice
• have ability to recognise authenticity
• improved communication skills
• better physical/emotional health
• skin condition improved
• eradication of stress related aches and pains
• better resistance to infections such as colds
• more energy and drive
• more resilient – recover from illness or emotional setbacks more quickly
• better self-esteem

3: FREUD, JUNG, DREAMS, SNAKES AND MYTHOLOGY

FREUD, JUNG, DREAMS

Libraries are chaotic places. 

That may seem a strange assertion considering that in libraries the contents are organised neatly, shelf by shelf, fiction separated from non-fiction and so on using, more than likely, a version of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.  Appearances, however, are deceptive. By that it is meant that the entire canon contained in our libraries is in one hell of a mess. 

The reason for this is quite simple: most works contained therein are written by con men, frauds or charlatans.  Thus, when attempting to access these works, whether for pleasure or research, one has to plough through an incredible amount of drivel to find any substance or truth. When conducting our own research on dreams, just such problems were encountered.

A good starting place, we are told, for any research on dreams, is the professional writings of the "father of psychoanalysis", Sigmund Freud.  Think again. He came out of the same drawer as most of the others. He was a fraud.  Had he really been able to interpret dreams, he wouldn’t have been so public with his own and put them into print, for dreams, in the words of Wilfred Owen, contain “truths that lie too deep for taint”, and Freud’s own were no exception.  That is to say, dreams only tell the truth and cannot be tainted.

Freud’s most famous dream, his ‘Irma’ Dream, is summarised on the next page. Following the summary is our interpretation. The interpretation reveals how Freud was working with dreams.

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