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There are many methods for interpreting these important dreams, although my personal favorite is what Jeremy Taylor calls “If it were my dream.” In this method, I tell others my dream, and the other parties pretend to be me as they interpret it. This method incorporates the premise that I can only provide you ideas based on my own limited perspective. As Jeremy says, “Any interpretation will be a shameless projection.” Yet this projection or perspective can hold great insight.

The rules of “If it were my dream” are as follows:

1. I share my dream in complete confidence.

2. Others in the group ask questions to fill out the picture of the dream I have created. Typical questions might be, How did the dream end, What colors were present, When and where did it occur, and How did you feel?

3. If another feels moved, she provides an interpretation of the dream as if the person speaking were the dreamer. One begins, “If it were my dream, I . . .” and continues the entire interpretation in the first person. This allows the dreamer to remember that he is not being analyzed or judged and that the interpretation belongs only to the one speaking.

4. Only the dreamer knows, by the feeling of “Aha, that’s it!” if the interpretation holds truth in his experience.

5. There are always multiple layers of a dream. Physical, emotional, and spiritual planes are simultaneously represented within a single dream image.

There is something in the soul which is only God and the masters say it is nameless, having no proper name of its own.
— Meister Eckhart

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine de Saint- Exupéry