Dreams are like a play with you taking part of all characters and scenery. Usually every symbol in your dream represents some aspect of YOU. Your sub-conscious is telling you a story about what’s really going on for you.

All you have to do is find relation between symbol and yourself and relate it to your waking life and you’ll get message. “Huh?!” I hear you say. Here’s an example … albeit a dramatic one!

Say you dream about being in a large, extravagant house. You go down a staircase and find yourself in a dark basement. A hooded man appears, but you can’t see his face. He’s got a knife and is trying to stab you. You try to run away but he catches you and suddenly you see your blood all over floor. Then you notice that hooded man is your boss!

“So how does this relate to me?” you ask.

Here are 4 easy steps to find out.

Step One - Write down each key symbol In this dream, they would be: - Extravagant house - Descending staircase - Dark - Basement - Hooded man - Knife stabbing you - Running away - Blood on floor - Your boss

Step Two - Work out meaning of each symbol Using your own intuition or a reputable dream symbol resource give each symbol a meaning:

Extravagant house – a house signifies your self-esteem and how secure you feel about yourself. A large, extravagant house could indicate that you’re feeling insecure and overwhelmed by something in your life … that you’ve bitten off more than you can chew.

Descending staircase –in this dream means going down into your sub-conscious [symbolized by basement] usually to seek out your suppressed fears [the issues that you don’t want to face in your waking thoughts].

Dark – darkness almost always signifies something hidden from your waking mind. It’s dark because you are not consciously aware of it.

Basement – represents your sub-conscious

Hooded man – any character or creature that is cloaked, hidden, hooded, unclear or shadowy usually represents your own hidden or suppressed fears.

Knife stabbing you – obviously means something potentially very harmful

Running away – obviously means trying to escape

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The ancients said it this way: To thine own self be true, and know thyself. You could define study of philosophy by this: “Know Thyself.”

Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy and author states this, “You can be knowledgeable without knowing yourself, but you cannot be wise without knowing yourself. For if you do not know yourself, if you are a stranger to yourself. If you have never wondered about knower, only about known, then no matter how much knowledge you have, you do not know who has it.”

Most of predecessors of Socrates focused exclusively on terrestrial and celestial bodies, but Socrates studied only about man and his issues. He wanted to harmonize virtue and vice, wisdom and ignorance and right and wrong. In order to do this, he had to study himself. He spent his life learning himself. Ironically, man who knew more than any other in Greece was executed because they said he corrupted youth with his teachings and did not worship right gods (state gods).

Again professor Kreeft says, “Try to measure earth, and you may succeed (as one ancient Greek, Eratosthenes, actually did), and you may think you are wise; but try to measure yourself and your life’s meaning and things like truth, goodness, and beauty, and you will find that you are swimming in waters far over your head. The world in your head is much bigger than world outside your head.”