21 Days to Decode Your Dreams - Leon Nacson

Leon Nacson is a Dream Coach based on Australia, a pioneer in the self-help movement, and the publisher of the Planet Magazine. He had written three books on dreams. The book is about how to decode dreams in 21 Days, decoding them one concept at a time. Some of the key concepts he covers are about the language of dreams, emotions, popular expressions etc. He explains the difference between feelings and emotions - emotions being a state of feeling and feelings being a sensate experience of the emotion. 

A few key ideas

We speak in metaphors, but we dream in symbols

We match dream symbols to popular expressions and metaphors

We wake up with feelings

Dreams are like onions - there are many layers to each symbol

We solve problems in our dreams

We live our worst fears in our dreams

Death in our dreams means new beginnings and regeneration

When you're being chased in a dream, you're running away from yourself

If you're falling in your dream, you're feeling unsupported

If you're flying in your dreams you want your spirits to be uplifted, or, you have a desire to get a bird's eye view of the situation

If you dream about celebrities, we are dreaming of symbols of who we think they are

Always recount your dreams in the first person and in present tense

Consider the relationship between your dreams and a situation that's occurring in your waking life

Emotions create dreams, dreams balance our emotions

When you get erotic dreams - most of the time you discover you are only making love to yourself

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And so on and so forth. Some nice insights that I can show off next time someone talks of a dream or a nightmare.