 Welcome back guys. So this is the howtolucid.com podcast today We've got a really special guest Michael Sheridan Ireland's favorite dream expo He's gonna be talking about dream meanings Interpretations and all of that exciting stuff. So yeah, Michael welcome to the show. Thanks for having me Steph Yeah, I love having guests to talk about specific aspects of dreaming not just lucid dreaming It's really interesting to talk about because it really has such a wide range of applications, you know Looking at different dreams and what they mean. So maybe just start with you just introducing yourself talking about maybe how you got into dreams and dream meanings and yeah So it's kind of funny like I've been doing this 30 years now. This is my day job But I really kind of got into it by accident My sister wanted to do a dream course and she didn't want to do it on her own and she Hounded me till I went along with her and I went along to heckle I I thought, you know, this will be fun Because these people I'll take dreams seriously and I brought a dream of mine with me and they analyzed it anonymously in the class And of course that was going to be my uh cannon fodder for you know, I'm going to be able to make fun Because it's going to be using my dream But it described me to a T so well that It was just impossible to not take it seriously after that point I think my guard being down is really what Allowed me get into it because I wasn't expecting that to have substance and yet it had so much substance Like it even included their analysis even included the fact that I was born by cesarean section, you know So it was like very pointed out detailed Wow So you would say then that specific symbols and things in a dream can tell you quite intricate details about your Yeah, absolutely absolutely and and so that's why I liked it So I used dream interpretation then I you know because that was so good I just threw myself into it and I did course after course after course course with this one guy And I did therapies based on dreams and all that sort of stuff and that's what I now Use with my clients Because it's so transformative. It's so helpful in our lives to show Where the real issues come from so you can look at your relationship and say I'm having problems in my relationship You're everybody does from time to time and you think it's based on something that's happening today And your dreams are saying no this goes way back It comes from this particular event and if you really want to heal it you got to work on this event and so it's it's so Fantastic in that way that it really does allow you Finally deal with an issue that you know has plagued you from in every relationship you've ever had for instance Wow that's not that and that's super powerful, of course. Yeah, absolutely many different things you can do with that and what's interesting of course with Lucid dreaming Is something that I don't cover. I mean I mentioned it in my book But you know almost in passing and I don't cover it because there's a point in a lucid dream where the symbolism stops and But I do encourage people to try get lucid because if you can get lucid in a dream Every dream that you your dreams are trying to heal you or guide you Or they can be an expression of just what your subconscious reaction to the subject matter is So it's going to be one of those three things and if you can become lucid in a dream and accept the healing or the guidance It just accelerates your potential in life so fast. Um, you know, it's a fantastic thing to do Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely so We'll come back to that in a second, but just let's just start at the very beginning Why should people want to learn What their dreams mean and want to interpret them Yeah, so really, you know It depending on my audience I would answer this differently, but the full woo answer is Our dreams are messages from source. They're telling us What our life purpose is and how true we're being to our life purpose And so if you can interpret your dreams and say, okay I'm out of alignment this by the doing this Then you can stop doing this and do do something else do the thing that you came here to do So it's kind of like your higher self phoning in course corrections And saying, you know, these are the issues you're meant to face So a lot of people think the obstacles in their path are the things that are blocking them from life But most of the time the obstacles in your path are the very things that you're meant to work on because removing The limiting beliefs that cause those obstacles is is a huge part of your life purpose I'm actually so glad you said that because for a while I've been I guess with the lucid dreaming thing I've been teaching mainly that the dreams it's all in your mind You know, it's just all in this closed system But only in the last couple of years I've really started to Believe a lot more in the spiritual and the higher sort of energies going on. I think there's massive, you know A lot of messaging comes from higher our higher self and Spirit guides and all this kind of stuff through our dreams. Yeah was before I didn't I didn't believe that I thought it was just all in this enclosed system and that it was just I don't know Day residue memory consolidation and that was it But yeah, so I'm glad you said can you expand expand on that a little bit? Can you so like and I've watched some of your videos too and You you say for instance our dreams happen while we're in the body, which they do and very I you rarely see people say that So even though their message is from source, it doesn't matter what you're doing when we when we sleep sometimes Our spirit leaves our body, but for the dream to happen we're called back in so we're in the body for the dream state and We also see the subconscious response to what's going on. So it's like a dialogue It's a message from our higher self that says look you came here To use this particular gift to help people in this particular way And it's very very pointed and saying here's what you are these here's what you have these are your skill sets There will also be other things that you need to work on like maybe you're not confident or you're not Whatever it is and they're also in the dream too and and so you could you could see your subconscious reaction in the dream saying Um, I don't want to get close to people because if I open up and let people get close to me I'm going to get hurt because I was hurt when I was a child almost everything goes back to when you're a child So as a child we don't have a rational filter We don't have a logical mind and everything that is said to us or every situation we're in It's like getting into the deepest meditation state and even deeper than that And just letting all that stuff come in past our new filters because we've no filter And it just gets laid down in your subconscious mind as as basically your world view And then for the rest of your life until you do a therapy around it That is your world view and our dreams But that's deliberate, you know, because that's how Source transfers to the physical plane the issues we need to work on That we already have in this big plane. So if I lack confidence or I feel I'm worthless That might be part of my job here come here to work on that issue of feeling worthless Um and overcome it But I have to have some triggering mechanism to make me feel worthless on the earth plane So something happens early in our life and that's usually done by the parents that we have Um and it doesn't take much of a nudge because that's already my default setting say So something happens that makes me feel like I'm worthless and then I go through life with that Shackle on and it's up to me then I'll get lots of opportunities in life throughout life To to come across healers or different people that can help me Get rid of that conditioning most of the time we reject that healing or we reject the advice and our dreams Are constantly telling us look, this is why you're here You're here to work on this issue. It's not the obstacle. It's not it may be an obstacle, but it's a deliberate obstacle and by Removing that obstacle so you can get to the gift that you can use on the other side Is you know double the healing one you're going to get the healing you're going to be Free of that condition in all aspects of your being including the physical Are including the spiritual but then you're also free to use your gift to help other people So we bring something good with us everybody has at least one gift And so so everybody has a way of helping other people And so find out what yours is and use just that don't use other things because when you promise, you know Not there's not a lot of slots here on the planet and we have to Sign contracts before we get the positions here and we say, okay You know, let me here. I'm going to do this this and this and this for humanity I'm exaggerating of course, you know, and then we get here and we don't do anything because we're of our fears So our dreams are always trying to remind us. Here's the gift that you're meant to be developing and meant to be using to help other people And that's always great But if you use something else, you never had planned to use that so it's You know, it's not just that you have the gift and you randomly help people the people you're going to help They also are expecting that help. It's all part of this whole big contract So if you don't develop it and don't use it, then you're you're also letting down all these other people Did I go way off script there? No, that was so interesting. I was just speechless there So I have actually got two questions though, right regarding that So what the first question is would you say that if someone has recurring dreams or some like a dream sign? Most people do but not everyone like a recurring dream sign or symbol Is that basically the most important message they should listen to? Is the first question typically typically it is Because it means that they're not listening, but it depends on how far apart the recurring dream is So a lot of people have dreams Of re-sitting their l levels or a levels and yeah each time it's different So you think about what happens and here's how you interpret symbols What happens for me when I sit my exams? It's my world changes I'm finished with one phase of my life and all these bigger opportunities open up for me based on how I do So assuming you do well Everything's going to open up for me But the other thing is the government won't let you sit those exams until you're ready And they deem you ready So in a dream state, it means your higher self is saying you are ready to move on to the next phase So once your higher self says you're ready, then you're definitely ready It doesn't matter whether you're afraid or not and so people The typical things that people fail in exams are maths for instance, which is all about expanding your mind Or history, which is like, you know Things in the past are still affecting me and you know, there's other things do But the history and the maths will be the two common big common ones But it's a really encouraging dream because you can only have that dream when something new is on the horizon And you feel you're not ready because usually in these exams, we're afraid we're going to fail We're afraid we haven't we haven't studied because it's kind of like a surprise test So each time you have that one, even though it recurs, it can be about something completely different So you look at what was going on in my life around the time of this Dream because that's what it's about and whatever it is new that you're thinking of doing It's a massive endorsement from your higher self to say Go ahead and do that because this is going to expand you And so just to just to clarify are you talking specifically about the dream of sitting your own levels or would you say that? If that's a recurring one. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay Um, so would you say that and any other dream is basically your higher self saying you are ready for this message? Uh, well, yeah, you may not be ready for the message, you know, um but it's When you interpret a dream though, it it resonates with the dreamer because it's a core message That's come to them and so when you get the interpretation right Um, it really makes sense and they fully get it. They know. Okay. It's definitely about this Um, but it dreams cover every aspect of your life But and and they do use you you alluded to this they do use what's going on in your life today as Uh, kind of like the backdrop Yeah, but it's other symbols that are placed in on top of that backdrop Are the most important things so that the real gold is usually below the surface It doesn't have to be but it usually is below the surface So if you Work in a mail room and you keep your dreams are all based in that mail room Well mail rooms and dreams would typically be about being able to receive messages from spirit or channel But in your case, it's not going to be because that's where you work So we have to ignore that so you need to know little things about about the dreamer But it's still got to be a message. So what is different in the dream? So this is not going to be just you working in the mail room. Something different is going to be there It's like people dismiss Nightmares if they've watched a horror movie But you can ask them, you know, well, what did you watch if you watch frankenstein and dreamt of dracula? It's the difference. That's important and dracula will mean something in particular Yeah, that's so interesting. Oh, I have so many questions. Okay Going back to the the first one So you said about how recurring dreams is like You would say like the most one of the most important messages for you to hear from your higher self Yeah, we're important enough for your higher self to keep repeating it Yeah, okay, but then so what would you say about people who they don't have recurring dreams? They just have like lots of seemingly random dreams that are unconnected Yeah, well, they're always connected and usually the dreams that you have in the same night Have a thread through them and so even though the symbolism is different The meaning of the dream is usually the same So it's quite good if somebody sends me a batch of dreams and I get two or three from the same night If I've difficulty working on a part of one of the dreams I can look at the other two And I'm say, okay. These are about this and it helps me with the first one. So Dreams will always focus on whatever is the most important aspect At the present time and so over the course of your night. That's not going to usually change So each dream in a night is going to be about the same core subject typically Ah, okay, but what about so so dreams in the same night are usually about the same message. Yes, but what about dreams? For example tomorrow like every day. Does the message change each day or can it be it typically does and like even though I say dreams every night are going to be about the same thing You could have two things going on and they're showing up in interleaving dreams or whatever But when you look at a dream when it dreams like they do eventually work, you know, they In the dream state, you know what the dream means. That's why we react the way we react, you know So it's like you could be talking to an elephant in a dream and have no problem with that But somebody wants to break a wall down and you're you're not happy that they want to Break this wall or open a door because you know that taking the wall down is about You taking down a defensive barrier that you have up to protect yourself to keep people at a distance You're not worried about anything else in the dream, but we know what it means in the dream Um I've kind of stepped away from From your question But when we accept a piece of the message Then it's like the needle moves and we get more either a further qualification about what that message was Or we get the same message repeated. So if we accept it, we get more detail If we don't accept it, then we're still at the, you know, where your dreams are saying, hey Steph, you're a channel. You realize you're a channel. You're meant to be channeling for people And each night you're like, uh, I don't really think so. I don't think so because remember that previous lifetime when I was hanged for channeling And so that'll be in a dream, you know, all that would be in the dream But if if if you don't take take the message that's going to be in your next dreams When they decide channeling is the important thing for you to be talking about again But if you do accept the message then the dream will switch to say and you're meant to be working with couples You know, that's the type of you're meant to be channeling and helping couples deal with relationship issues and so they change as you As you work on the message and accept the message and that's one of the reasons dreams are so transformative when you're working with people is When somebody embraces things the dreams instantly change. There's no they don't repeat a message that you've already got That you've accepted to heart and so you get Further refinements in very quick succession. So over just a few weeks you can move your life mountains In terms of your belief system So if that's interesting So if someone was having like a recurring dream and then when they understand and interpret it You're saying it would basically it would stop happening and they'd get like a new message or this. Yeah. Yeah Wow It always does So I go on it always does and it's one of the things, you know If people who have nightmares that show up every so often And they dread it and they're like some people are at the point where they're afraid to go to sleep because they keep having This one particular dream that really bothers them. And so when you interpret that dream, that's it. It's over There's because there's no need for them to have that message again. It's already Accepted and so it's it's really really practical that way So when you interpret it your subconscious space or or your higher self or both Basically, no, okay. He or she is and interpreted and understood the lesson. Let's move on Yeah, well, they have to move on too. So you the dreamer has to move on as well so if if I say, okay, it's about this and you go, yeah, well, okay, that did happen and I'm not going to I'm not going to change anything Then maybe the dream that nightmare dream will stop But other dreams will come along and still say the same message. Look, you still need to move You still need to open up like being open being emotionally open is one of the biggest obstacles people have 51% of people in the west die of heart related illness because their heart is closed Now nobody's going to ever think their heart is closed because it's like, yeah, I still feel pain. I still feel love I said But an open heart in a from your higher self's perspective is about being open to the point where you can feel the connection with the divine and have A two-way flow of energy. So it's not just this I keep people at a distance and I only allow people Get close to me if I know they're not going to hurt me and But that's always because there's some pain in the past some pain in childhood Usually under the age two and a half And so the dreams are trying to say the reason you stay closed off is because of this pain Work on the issue around that pain work on the parent that comes from and when you do Then your your dreams completely change and so does your life, you know, it's not just your dreams change, but your life changes Yeah, absolutely. Would you say every dream has a message? Yes, you would yeah What about when but I also agree with you You can do the techniques you talk about to become lucid in a dream and You can also you can kind of see the dream. So your dreams are going to give you Whatever is most important But if you if you do a kind of a meditation or a repeated request to dream the solution to a particular problem You will eventually get that dream as well okay, so Most of my audience as I said is they don't really know about dream meanings I would say they're more interested in lucid dreaming and or at least that's what they mainly do in practice So for people who have no idea complete beginners, how can somebody interpret or understand a dream meaning from the in absolute basic terms Okay, so this is one of the problems that there are so many websites out there and there's so many books written about dreams And they're not all good. And so you have to realize that, you know um So you have to get a source that works um I my my dictionary is freely available on my website um And you could start there. I'm not saying believe me But look at what I say the symbolism means and every symbol I have in my dictionary is from a dream that I worked With a client on so they're all real dreams. They're not just where I go Oh an ostrich means this because of whatever if they're all real dreams and they're all real symbols So use that and see for you. Does it does it match up with what's going on in your life? And it will match up But there are rules to interpretation and the most important one is that everything in a dream is used So dreams are creations a creation of your mind. You'll often see people um Telling a friend it's amazing how many dreams I've heard in elevators where somebody is telling their friend Oh, I dreamt about you last night and then they proceed to tell the whole dream Well, first of all your friends bored out of their school They don't want to hear your dream But everything in your dream is represents an aspect of you. So friends enemies Whoever they are they all represent an ideal a hope a fear a goal They all represent something about you and you pick them for that reason. So if you dream for instance of um Barack Obama And you really like Barack Obama then it means you have a spiritual leadership ability and spiritual leadership Is not the same as political leadership? Um But it means you have that if you don't like Barack Obama, it means you it still means you have the gift But you don't like that gift and so so that's how it works. Um, and then There's a lot more behind that once you know the subject matter of a dream Everything in the dream is a comment on that subject matter and so one of the tricks I tell people to do initially is Figure out the subject matter Not always easy, but an easy one is relationships if your partner is in the dream It's always about your relationship. So you would make the sentence then you would look at um Say, uh, if there's ice in the dream or snow on the dream and your partner's there you would say when it comes to my relationship, I am And you fit in all the symbols into this sentence. So you see ice and it just means cold So when it comes to my relation to buy i'm cold, which is emotionally cold, you know, we we have the expression We freeze somebody out, etc. So you you interpret every single symbol Relating it back to the to the subject matter If you can't figure out the subject matter then relate it back to your life But it's still always about you and so if you dream of somebody who's very confident The dream is trying to get you to be confident and saying look be like Jason or be like whoever it is if your dream is somebody who's super super shy Then it's saying this is the way you are. This is what you need to overcome. Um, that's another important thing Dreams show you either how you are or how you need to be Um, they never show you a positive and say this is the way you already are It doesn't work that way. There's no point in that message, you know Ah, okay So just quickly you said about the subject matter and then relating the symbols to that subject or your to your to a comment on the subject matter Yeah Is there any easy way of determining what the subject matter is because most people dream about A huge ranges of dream symbols and people might be there animals and how would you determine? What's the important the location is usually the easiest way. So what happens in the location? So if you dream of bathrooms, which is really common dream bathrooms are about elimination If there's a physical problem in the bathroom in the dream, it's about your physical elimination It's about your body if there isn't it's about psychological elimination of something So if the dream's about your relationship and then there's a bathroom The dream is asking you to let go of something that you're holding on to in the relationship that is holding you back And usually like that's enough that you go. Oh, yeah, I know what it is I know exactly what it is, you know So we've all been through bad relationships and a lot of the time people hold back And we'll say I I'm not going to get into this. I'm not going to commit into this relationship Unlike I get the full measure of my partner or until I see them committing And of course if both people are doing that then that's that's a doomed relationship from the start So your dreams will always encourage you to overcome whatever limitation there was from a past relationship And just give this relationship everything that you have Because that's how you're going to get the most out of it. I don't know why I keep talking about relationships But um, if you dream, uh, you know, if you dream like I mentioned the mail room That's about that's where messages are sent and sorted out and then delivered to the recipient So that is a perfect symbol for a channeling But there's many other symbols like a postman The internet anything to do a communication of a telephone That would also be about channeling. So it's pretty easy to to look at Generally the location and what happens in the location to say, okay This the subject matter is likely going to be this Okay Would you say there are any specific dream signs scenes symbols or situations that are like more important than others or like more Unusual or rare things to watch out for or not ignore um Yeah, so you can see A death wish in a dream is the worst thing to see. It's it's the one thing I hate seeing um, and That would be references to to say live or uh, brown bread is a is a is another one that symbolizes death in a dream And it's interesting It's the hippie slang for dead, right? So when you see it in a dream and somebody if you're buttering brown bread It's saying hey, you need to give up butter because You have an intolerance to that and it's really affecting your body And what's interesting too is if you take bread meaning death in a dream That's even in the bible, you know, the joseph interprets a dream where a baker has bread on his head And he says you're going to lose your head, you know, so it's For any of the bible readers out there But that's the they're the ones I I dislike the most but again if I say to somebody if I say to a client look you you're given up on life They already know that And for a lot of people It's very encouraging just for them to know that the universe or source or whoever they they perceive Is seeing them does hear them does understand their pain and Then they was like, okay, what do I need to do because if you know a dream is really pointing out this this terrible Place that you're in you're also going to say what is it telling me to do about it? And I believe that that's going to help me because it has so accurately said what I need to do I'm sorry. Didn't mean to take it in a morbid direction there But that's how practical dreams are like they they will show you what's going to take you off the planet But they'll show you that years and years in advance. That's one of the really good things in dreams They do show health issues, but they show them so far in advance that you have Years and years to do something about it. Like there's no such thing as far as dreams are concerned There's no such thing as a sudden heart attack You've been warned for probably 20 years that you're going to have that and the symbols are very very easy to see Well, and hence the transformative Yeah ability of dreams because you can get these messages And you know, it's worked when you work on the issue The symbol that those dreams stop and that's how you know that you've successfully dealt with an issue Right, so so in theory then recurring dreams are Basically assigned to to listen up and take action on the dream Absolutely And if you've already figured out what this recurring dream means once and it happens two or three years later You have a head start if dreams did reuse A lot of the old material would be we'd find it a lot easier to interpret them But it's but it's not too common So why would you say some dreams are more common than others? I'm going to give an example of things like teeth falling out you falling being chased Maybe a dog chasing whatever things like that So being chased anything behind you in a dream is is about your past and anything in front of you is the future So it's like what's up ahead on my path is Is your future? And so being chased says there's something in my past that I'm trying to get away from But I really need to deal with it's going to catch up with me at some point So I need to deal with and of course all our issues are from the past, you know, so it's going to be a common dream Teeth falling out animals carry their young around with their teeth so teeth can represent child raring ability and Almost everybody at some point Wonders if they're doing a good job raising their kids or they're thinking about should I even have a kid? Would I make a good dad? Would I make a good mom? And so it's it's going to be a common dream The other thing teeth can be about is taking a bite at life And so in these dreams usually the teeth are falling out and we're looking at them in a mirror If it's in a mirror, it's about your reproductive system And it is definitely thin about child rearing because a mirror is a So usually this is what happens is the teeth are falling out and somebody goes to a mirror in the bathroom to look at them And look at their face and a mirror is a reproductive device that reproduces as an image of you So it's about your reproduction Wow, I had no idea Because that's a really common dream. I think especially yeah, yeah, so there's 10 dreams 10 common dreams that over 60 of us will have in their lifetime, which is quite surprising, you know that Um, there's such a small subset of dreams that almost every one of us is going to have And so you have a head start, uh, if you look at those and figure out what they're about then, um, you know You're going to remember times when you had those Yeah, so just very very briefly. Do you have any specific um dream week or journal advice or things you would say about that? Uh, well, what I would say is what you record is important Record as much detail as possible if you have a friend or somebody in the dream record what it is about that friend What do you think about them? Um, like are they super confident for instance, or are they fearless? Are they just like if they have something they're going to do are they just going to do it? Nothing's going to stop them Record colors. That's something that a lot of people skip and Interestingly, like we can override in our association with any symbol So if I've been to paris and I was mugged then paris is going to be about that to me It's going to be about the fear of being mugged and you know, but if that isn't the case It's going to be it's going to be something different. It's going to be the archetypal or universal meaning So Right, you know look with colors. Yeah, that's what it was colors. You can't change their meaning They mean what they mean in the aura So like black and orange is always going to be about career because orange is your is about ambition and drive And black is about fear and career is usually a fear-based thing And people can argue about it and they say no, it's not well then quit your job Just tell them quit your job and there's a million reasons why they can't quit their job I don't have the money. I need to put bread on the table Career is a fear-based thing so colors are really good And if somebody gives me a color I will always go to the color first because that will tell you what the dream is about Straight away because people can't change their association So yeah colors and if somebody has a title in a dream, they're infallible So guides can show up in our dreams guides are the Our people sometimes call them guardian angels and so on but You know, there are spirit beings that we have tasked with helping us achieve our life purpose And so they're going to trip us up when we need to be tripped up And they're going to open doors for us when they need to be open And so if they show up in a dream and we can tell them from other characters Because they usually have a title so it'll be the postman or it'll be the bus driver or somebody who has a title And whatever they say in a dream is infallible So go by their advice. They know they're never wrong And then other people if they're not a guide, then you can take what you will about whatever they say in a dream So how do you tell a guide? Whether they have a title whether they speak with authority Quite often they give you a gift because they want to remind you that you're here to use your gifts And they're telling you look you have a gift you have a gift here you go Look, I just gave you one you have a gift and most people especially in the west although it's improved enormously now We we ignore our gifts, you know, we don't do anything with them There's very few people who do like you're doing and just go all in on a subject and say This is going to be explored and you're going to understand everything about it by watching my channel, you know Most people just like no, I'm just going to be an accountant or I'm going to and not that I'm not going to that But there's always something that we can do some gifts that we have We wouldn't consider as gifts, you know, like the ability to write or it'd be a singer or so on So I've definitely gone off the track of the question But record as much detail as possible because even if you can't figure it out You can look back at your dreams and say, okay, I have slow-moving animals in my dreams But I noticed they're getting faster. I was dreaming of a turtle or a tortoise And now I'm dreaming of another animal that moves quicker and so on. So you if you eventually figure it out You can see, okay, is the is the problem getting worse or is it getting better? right Awesome So just going on a slightly different direction now. Can you comment on maybe the spiritual aspect of dreams? So, yeah, that's my favorite aspect And again, like I said, depending on the audience, I would quite often just drop it completely. So we have a specific reason for being here a specific purpose And our dreams always remind us of what that is and what our gifts are and You know, it's it's fantastic to to look at it and say, okay To know you have the gift but then are a gift but then most people are afraid of using it And they would want to they want to swap it out and you could see that in dreams, too So you have to watch it if you see it a dream that has a sports car or Something like that in it, which would be The thing about a sports car is it has it's really powerful It can channel a lot of power and it symbolizes you have the ability to channel power Energy through your body and into your client. So it symbolizes a spiritual healer But just because you see that in your dream doesn't mean you necessarily have that gift It could be something you want to do What I always find funny is when you identify the gifts and dreams Usually the person doesn't want the one they have not usually but in a lot of cases they don't they want something else And yet you find people who have that something else And they want something else because people are always like well, this gift isn't going to work for me You know, I'm not going to be able to make a living from doing this and so on and so on So they have all sorts of reasons. We always have all sorts of reasons why it's not going to work But it's the one more meant to use we have A karmic obligation to develop the gifts that we said we would use and the people that we're going to help in our lives They're expecting us and need us to develop that because we're going to help them at some point And and through that help we've repaid whatever debt we owed to them So we don't repay the debt when we move on this time ran and review our life and we get to review everything We will see. Oh my god. I I didn't do this and I still have all these people that I owe a debt to and I Said I was going to help so our dreams always encourage us To stick to our plan and use our gifts quite often those dreams involve You signing something and usually in those dreams you're trying to sign your name But you're not signing it right and and you're not understanding. How do I keep writing my name wrong? but but Yeah I've glossed over it really um Just because I've that's a subject area. Is there a specific area in the the spiritual aspect that you're Uh thinking about Yeah, just specifically purpose because I think a lot of people as you say they struggle to find that or they They maybe have some idea, but they're just too scared to follow their heart and trust their intuition so I think if people could Understand that and use their dream meanings to understand what their purpose is or even so they just know what is Then they probably I think have more courage and motivation to follow it if they knew what it was Yeah, absolutely. So there's two things. One is there's got to be an issue you need to overcome No matter who you are, there's always going to be something you need to overcome. So seeing that issue Um is is a big part of you becoming who you need to become Um, but you can still work your gifts. You can still use the gift Even if you don't overcome them. So your dreams are going to show you Uh, whether you're a channel whether you're a counselor Whether you're a spiritual leader and again, these things are they show you what you need For instance counselors, they make a massive sacrifice at the start of their life It's not it's not the degree that makes you a good counselor the qualification hanging on the wall is is useless really it's it's um You come into life you deliberately give yourself a poor bond at the start of life this is for counseling And that poor bond poor bond with mom and and therefore a poor bond with the earth plane Means that you don't fully come into your body And you're looking at life from the outside. You're always looking at life from the outside You you feel like you don't connect with people. You don't really You know that the connections missing but you see things about life because you can act like a chameleon You can blend in you've no problem doing that And so nobody else knows that you have that disconnected feeling that you feel alone even in a crowd But that trains you all the way from From right at the start of life all the way up through to look at life from the outside So when somebody comes to you with a problem You already know what their issues are you see them differently. You see why two people don't get on It's just so obvious to you even though it's not obvious to other people and so that massive sacrifice Is always present for counselors And then the dreams will say Here's what you need to do to heal up what I meant to get into there was The poor bond with the earth plane is is a heart thing It's it's you know, you have your heart closed off and you have this defensive wall and you stay back Your dreams will encourage you to fix that and then open your heart Because counseling requires an open and compassionate non-judgmental heart and very few people have that And I often compare an open heart to being like riding a bike You know what it feels like to ride a bike when you can ride a bike And you only know what an open heart is like when you have an open heart when you've done the work to get an open heart And you despite all your clamoring and claiming you won't know what it feels like till you get to that point So counselors and spiritual leaders They are always encouraged to have that open and non-judgmental heart Like nobody is beyond redemption as far as the spirit world is concerned So you should never judge and one of the things I often say to people that trick them is I ask do you believe that god or jesus or whoever you believe in could Forgive you for anything you've ever done and people always say yes And the answer is God will never forgive you for anything you've ever done because god has never judged you for anything you've ever done And that's the difference if I don't judge I don't need to forgive if I just accept people as they are That's the position I need to be starting from to use Two particular gifts and so your dreams give you all the detail about the gift And the state you need to be in and and the work you need to do on yourself To overcome the things that would be limitations for you being in the right space to use that particular gift When it comes to channeling for instance, just moving to be something completely different Your dreams will show you what type of channel you are because there's there's lots of different types of channels and they all Are indicated by different things in dreams So there's nine very obvious ones, but if your method is to get feelings about things There's no point you taking a clairvoyance class, which is about receiving images You know, it's like you're standing at the mailbox waiting for something But the person who's going to contact you always phones the landline Well, the landline's in the house. There's no point you've been at the mailbox So one of the good things about the dreams is they will show you how the gift works for you And what you need to do then to use it. So really they really put you in touch with it And what's also interesting too Most people use their gift already and so it doesn't stand out to them enormously because they think everybody's like this Everybody gets this and it's not of course. It's not true Um, so it's really interesting when you say to somebody. Hey, you're a channel and they're like, oh I don't want to talk to spirits and you say well, here's how it works for you You know, it's not always the hollywood style where a spirit uses your body That's very not common But if it was common for you, you would love it, you know, whatever it is, it's going to be something ultimately you will love But when you know what it is, you'll be able to you can say to people This is exactly how it works for you and it works in this environment and they're like, yeah Yeah, that has happened. That does happen and and that's always been useful to me And so it's it's really good that way. Does that answer your question the way you wanted? Yeah, yeah, and I think I think it's been You've given people enough of a whole foundation to interpret their own dreams and to Start to understand them better. Yeah, and I in my free dictionary. I have lots and lots of Symbols that indicate gifts. Um, you know all the different spiritual gifts So not all it's kind of unlimited, but there's a lot in there, you know, all the big ones writing spiritual leadership counseling Um, there's even other ones where like hands-on healing Do you have a special hands-on healing you see in some latin american countries where you You put your hands inside somebody's body? Um, I've never seen anybody do that. I've seen it on tv but uh I've seen it show up in people's dreams and their healing their physical healing ability Always far surpasses other people's even if they don't put their hands inside somebody's body It's it's just very intriguing But there there are a whole host of things and like I said an ability to work with kids An ability to teach and ability, you know, there's lots of abilities Exist that we don't consider spiritual, but the spirit world does Yeah, and I guess they know better than us what would be important and needed Well, they know what our life purpose is what we're here to do And uh, there's also like there's many outs on our path. So we say, okay I'm gonna hear I'm gonna I'm gonna work on this and as long as I have potential For improving myself or helping other people Um, I'm gonna stay on the planet Your your dreams also your heart stuff also wants you to stay healthy so you can do the work you're here to do So your dreams will like they don't want you to your heart stuff doesn't want you to be poor Doesn't want you to be scraping up food on the table So all these things are also answered in your dream because they're all necessary components for you to do what you're here to work on So everything is in there that ultimately your dreams want you to be healthy happy and successful And they're all encouraging you Uh To take the steps that allow you get to that space and then just turning it back on to lucid dreams If you know what you're here to do And you become lucid then you can just embrace that message in that dream And that will stop them quicker than anything that'll stop those dreams quicker than you interpreting it and figuring it out Because in the dream state you have said so basically while you're on the phone to your higher self You have said I accept the message. I accept the task. You know mission impossible. I am going to do this and so You're quite often in those states In in the lucid state you will it'll switch into dialogue and people often ask Why don't our dreams just come in plain English if they're so important? And the answer is obvious Like everybody on every part of the planet dreams we dream while in the womb And we dream for years before we can use the spoken language that we we consider our first language But our first language is dreams and so We shouldn't be asking why don't dreams turn around and use what I learned Four years later. Um, you know, it's just that we don't put the effort in like How many how many years did it take you to get good at using the language that you use? How much effort did your parents and teachers and so on put into you learning this language? And we pay no attention to our dreams zero effort and say well, that's useless It should make more sense than that if you put in a little bit of effort to learn in the language you can get tons out of it Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So just going back to quickly you mentioned the dream dictionary. Where can people Find that what's the best place to go? So dream dash analysis.com my website there Almost on every page of it. There's an option for downloading the free dictionary And if you do download the dictionary I'll also send out emails that include like the 10 most common dreams and things like that interesting tidbits about dreams Excellent. So, yeah, I think um, that's a really good note to end on actually I think that's really an interesting thing for people to think about Uh, but do you have any other sort of advice or messages? Uh, you'd like to give to people Well, if everybody what I always find interesting, uh, your dreams encourage you to be kind of selfish They say follow your path. Don't follow other people's paths Nobody becomes great from doing what other people tell them to do You come you become great by listening to your own inner wisdom your own dreams your own call to action What is your call to action? Figure it out from your dreams follow that and the world's got to be a much more peaceful place Um, than than ever because your dreams will not encourage you to go to war with another country Awesome So Uh, well, yeah, so where's the best place for people to uh, is it dream dash analysis? Yeah dream dash analysis.com. Um Even uh past archives of my radio show are on there as well. Uh, and uh, hopefully i'm gonna have you on as a guest Pretty soon And um, yeah, so everything it's the starting point for everything about me Excellent. Well, Michael, thank you so much for coming on today. It's been a pleasure to talk to you and uh, hopefully happy on again