Dear Dreamers,

You are the writer, producer, director and star of all your dreams. Only you can really interpret your dreams. The language of dreams is symbols, metaphors and emotions. As our minds are unconscious in dreams, your dream “creator” can only pull information stored in your brain (data base) and try to use this to give you a dream message.

In the dream below I try to give guidelines to what the dreams may mean. You must always ask yourself- what does the symbol, person, color, emotion etc. mean to me in my dreams?

Only you really know the answer and if what I say should resonate in a small or big way then you are on track to understanding what your symbols are meaning. The best way to learn how to understand your dream language is to keep a dream journal of each dream that does stand out for you and to keep digging to find meanings that resonate. My suggestions below are only my ideas and not meant to be replacing your own dream language or interpretations.

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May, June, July 2010

Dear Irene,

My dream question is I often dream that I can breathe under water, what significance does this hold? Usually I am fearful and trying to get away from someone and go into the water and find out I can breathe and then I just kind of enjoy myself and explore under water while hiding and my fear is gone. Thank-you.

- Submitted by Cindy C. -

Dear Cindy,

Water is symbolic of emotions and cleansing. Water has so many options and it can often have great meaning in a dream.

For example: - Deep water can mean deep emotions, feeling out of depth with some life situation and a deep subconscious state of emotions. - Entering water could represent new beginnings, entering a highly emotional state and even a state of pregnancy. - One also has to take into account if the dreamer is in a river, pond, lake, ocean, drowning, swimming, etc.

As you can see water has many different meanings and possibilities but the one thing that is pretty consistent with water is our emotional state in relation to what is currently happening in our waking life.

Breathing is a life necessity and is connected to the process of life. Years ago breathing underwater was associated to a “return to a womb like state”.

Because you are fearful and trying to get away from someone/something in the dream is likely because you are feeling this way about something or someone in your waking life.

Are you facing some fears and deep emotional issues that could be triggering this state of dream consciousness? If so, when you awake ask yourself what you are currently dealing with that you are wanting to avoid, fear or need to face and if you can identify and face it the dreams will stop. In closing exploring underwater could mean avoidance of an issue and you need to explore your waking life and face something or someone.

Good luck,

Irene

Dear Irene,

My sister died two years ago and my brother a year prior to her. Shortly after she passed, my three sisters and I went for a walk.

The path we were walking along had pennies strewn along it for about a block. At this stage in my life I was a bit dubious about spirits, but I seemed to instinctively know these had to do with my sister and so I picked them up.

One profound experience I’ve had was walking my dog one dark evening. I was feeling intensely sad and missing my sister and I looked down at that precise moment and saw a shiny dime in a footprint in the snow directly beneath me. It gave me shivers.

I always find coins on the ground now, primarily dimes (why not $100 bills?). Maybe there were always coins on the ground and perhaps I didn’t take notice before. Can you tell of any experiences or knowledge you have on this?

~ Submitted by Marili ~

Dear Marili,

When I was about nine years old my Uncle died and I went to my first funeral. When we were walking up the path to the church I found 4 pennies on the ground. My mother said the following verse to me after I picked them up.

“Finding coins on the ground is to know angels and loved ones are around.”

She also told me to never keep the money but to “gift it” to others who would be in a greater need such as charities or the homeless and I have also done this with thanks to those who left the coins where I would find them.

Whenever I see coins now and I don’t have time to pick them up or they are too dirty, I just say thanks and bless the next person to see or get them. I have always believed that coins were just one of the ways that our love ones connect to us.

You will seldom find large denominations of bills as it is not about the amount of what is on the ground as this is not what the message is about. It is the simple and smallest things in life that we overlook that carry the greatest messages. How many times do we ignore a butterfly, a warm day, a favorite song with the perfect message, a bird that comes close to us and seems to want to tell us something and even a leaf that gently falls on our path?

Our loved ones are always around and they have many ways to try and let us know this. One day a few years back I too was missing my sister who died in 1995. That day an invitation came in the mail for a baby shower and it was for the exact same time and date she died! The baby shower was for a baby girl who they had named Linda and that was also my sister’s name!

Was she telling me she had come back in a new life? I like to think so.

Be aware of life’s moments as they always bring a gift.

Blessings,

Irene

Insightful and compassionate, Irene is a powerful spiritual counselor, author, speaker and teacher who shares her intuitive gifts and wisdom with a myriad of clients including professionals and non-professionals around the globe. Irene is the author of Dream Talk, Journey Beyond and a Self Discovery Journal

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