How to Have Good Dreams

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To dream is to open a sacred dialogue between your conscious self and the vast, intuitive depths of your soul. Dreams are the language of your subconscious mind, your intuition, and often — your spirit guides or higher self. Whether while sleeping or envisioning your future, dreaming is a powerful tool for insight, healing, and transformation.

Spiritually and Energetically, to Dream Means:

  • Receiving messages from your soul, ancestors, or Source

  • Processing emotions and experiences beyond the limits of logic

  • Accessing symbolic wisdom through archetypes, colors, and metaphors

  • Rehearsing energetic or emotional lessons in a safe, inner space

  • Activating imagination and creative manifestation pathways

  • Tapping into higher timelines, possibilities, or unseen truths

  • Healing trauma by revealing what has been suppressed or avoided

In soul healing or transformation work, dreams often act as portals — showing you what your conscious mind can’t yet see or accept. Interpreting them gently, symbolically, and with curiosity (not fear) allows your inner wisdom to surface.

Symbolic Dreams

Dream symbols are like messages from your soul, subconscious, or Spirit, speaking in metaphor and energy. Their meanings can shift based on your emotions, cultural background, and life path, but there are some universal archetypes that show up often in healing, transformation, and intuitive work.

Water

Represents emotions, intuition, subconscious depths

  • Calm water = inner peace, clarity

  • Rough waves = emotional overwhelm or transformation

  • Drowning = fear of being consumed by feelings

  • Swimming = navigating emotional terrain or healing

Snake

Symbol of transformation, kundalini energy, shedding the old

  • Biting = fear of change or hidden truths

  • Shedding skin = rebirth, release, spiritual growth

  • Fear of snake = resisting inner power or suppressed desire

House or Rooms

Represents your inner self, mind, or spiritual body

  • New room = discovering a part of yourself

  • Basement = subconscious, hidden wounds or memories

  • Attic = higher consciousness, intuition, divine connection

  • Broken home = inner instability or old patterns needing repair

Flying

Symbolizes freedom, expanded consciousness, spiritual ascension

  • Controlled flight = power, trust, soul growth

  • Falling after flying = fear of losing control or self-doubt

  • Watching others fly = feeling disconnected from your own freedom

Babies

Represent new beginnings, inner child, potential

  • Holding a baby = nurturing something new

  • Abandoned baby = neglected ideas, dreams, or parts of self

  • Crying baby = inner self asking for attention or healing

Death

Rarely literal — represents endings, ego death, transformation

  • Death of self = release of an old identity or spiritual awakening

  • Death of others = change in relationships or dynamics

  • Peaceful death = soul evolution, completion of a cycle

Nature (trees, forests, animals)

Symbol of growth, cycles, wisdom, connection to Source

  • Tree = life, grounding, ancestral support

  • Forest = mystery, soul journey, subconscious

  • Specific animals (like owl = wisdom, lion = courage, deer = gentleness)

Sweet Dreams Bedtime Spray Oil Blend

A bedtime spray can help call in sweet dreams.

8-12 Drops of Lavender Oil

8 Drops of Orange Oil

Witch Hazel

Fill 6 oz spray bottle 3/4 full with distilled water, 1/4 witch hazel and the oil as directed above.

Shake bottle, lightly spray the bed, hands, and a little shower over yourself before climbing into bed. Use it as a part of the bedtime ritual below.

Sweet Dreams Bedtime Ritual

1) Sweep away exercise

2) Limit electronic games an hour or two before bed to bring down stimulation

3) A clean room…no toys or stuff under the bed helps the mind stay clear

4) Have the bed facing North & South

5) Use Sweet Dreams Oil Blend

6) Turn on a Himalayan Salt Lamp inside bedroom

7) Place amethyst crystal under pillow or next to bed

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