Your boss – well, is your boss!

Step Three - Apply meaning of symbol to YOU Imagine that YOU are each of symbols in your dream. You’ll note [from symbolism in Step Two] that most of meanings already relate back to you.

Extravagant house – YOU are feeling insecure and overwhelmed Descending staircase – YOU are sub-consciously trying to understand and face your fears Dark basement, hooded man – YOU recognize that you have hidden issues and fears Knife stabbing you – YOU are harming yourself Running away – YOU are trying to escape Blood – YOU are draining your energy Your boss – YOU are like your boss in some way

Step Four - Relate these meanings to aspects of YOUR waking life Take each symbol and relate meaning to real circumstances you are dealing with in your life RIGHT NOW. Remember, your dream messages offer you guidance that you can use right away.

You’ll see why you are best person to make sense of your own dreams. No one would know answers to these questions except you! I’ve just given examples to complete exercise:

Extravagant house – in which area of your life do you feel overwhelmed and insecure? Work, competitive sport, finances, for example?

Knife stabbing you – how are you harming yourself? Are you overdoing something – exercise, work or have you over-extended yourself financially?

Dark basement, hooded man – what are your fears? Performance anxiety at work or in your sport? Do you fear financial ruin? Running away – your reaction is to try to escape, but …

Blood – you are draining your energy. You can’t keep up this pretence for much longer. It will exhaust you.

Your boss – what aspects of your boss do you feel you have? Are you bossy like him/her? Are you compassionate like him/her? Do you have his/her leadership qualities that could solve your problem?

So you see, every aspect of your dream represents something about YOU. All you have to do is learn to understand language of your dreams and to translate imagery you see with your “dream eyes” into useful information you can use in your waking life.

Your dreams show you your TRUE SELF. As Carl Jung says: “Our dreams are most peculiarly independent of our consciousness and exceedingly valuable because they cannot cheat.”

Yes—to know yourself is to know your own bitterness and contempt toward another. Find it and turn it all over to God. He forgives those who forgive others. To know yourself is to know truth about yourself. What are you hiding from yourself? What are you covering up? Truth alone will set you free.

The Bible says in I Corinthians 2:11 “For who among men knows thoughts of a man except spirit of man which is in him? Even so thoughts of God no one knows except Spirit of God” (NASB). Apart from God who made you, who can really know you? Only you can know yourself. When you come to know who you really are, you see yourself honestly. And honestly you are just a man or woman, nothing more. You are not God. Only God is God. His Holy Spirit, who knows mind or plan of God, can help you in several ways.

For one Holy Spirit can search mind of your human spirit or soul (Romans 8: 27) and can read what’s bugging you. He can pick up on things in you that you can’t put into words and help you pray right prayer for relief. Yes He can. Sometimes all we can do is groan in emotional pain and hurt, but groaning is a language of prayer before God when Holy Spirit is in it.

And yet another help is in purifying our hearts before God. The Spirit of God searches deep things of man—the heart of man. He uses Word of God as an instrument of cleansing and washes away our sins. Jesus told His disciples in John 15:3 that they were cleansed by His Word. This is power, and it sets us free.

As you learn who you are, you are beginning a walk in wisdom. You are wise to acknowledge your limitations before God and man, and let God lift you above them. With God all things are possible.

Keep faith. Stay course. Jesus is coming again. Yes, wise men still seek Him.

Pastor T. dash