Dream analysis: Overview

There are three pure types of dreams: subjective, physical and spiritual. Each relates to the past, present and future, and are influenced by past or subjective, physical and spiritual causes:

Spiritual dreams are always deeply prophetic, especially when it leaves a vivid impression on the conscious mind. They are brought about by the higher self penetrating the soul realm, and reflecting upon the waking mind approaching events.

When we put our animal mind and soul in harmony with our higher self we become one with it, and, therefore, one with the universal mind or will by becoming a part of it. It is through the higher self we reach the infinite. It is through the lower self we fall into the whirlpool of matter.

Subjective dreams also possess an element of warning and prophecy, though the true meaning is hidden in symbols or allegory. They are due to contingent mental pictures of the past falling upon the conscious mind of the dreamer.

Thus he is back at the old home, and finds mother pale and aged, or ruddy and healthy, and the lawn withered or green. It all augurs, according to the aspect the picture assumes, ill or good fortune.

Physical dreams are more or less unimportant. They are usually superinduced by the anxious waking mind, and when this is so they possess no prophetic significance.

Finally, there are also mixed dreams, due to a multitude of incidents arising from one or more sources, which being reflected upon the mind at the same instant, produce an incoherent effect similar to that which might be produced by running the same newspaper through two or more presses all of different size type.