Portland 8/25/2015 9:59:08 PM
Weather in Dreams Often Implies Mood, Says Dream Analyst, David Rivinus
While there are rarely hard and fast rules about the meaning
of dream symbols, when a weather condition is prominent in a dream, it is often
a metaphor for the dreamer’s current state of mind, says dream analyst, David
Rivinus.
“We use these images all the time in our daily speech,” he
says. “I’m having a sunny day; there’s a storm brewing; he was cold as ice.”
These are expressions that are common in our normal communications, and they
have become metaphors for our moods and morale.
According to Rivinus, when we dream, these verbal
expressions get acted out like scenes in a movie. If a dreamer finds himself
walking into a hailstorm in a dream, it can mean that he is about to confront
something that will affect his mood in an unpleasant way. “If we say something
like: I walked into a hailstorm,” he explains, “it loses some of its impact
because we translate it into an abstract concept.” But when we dream about
being in a hailstorm, the images become much more graphic and dramatic. They
can even be frightening.
“That’s why dreams can be so unsettling,” he says. And it is
also why there is a tendency to take dreams literally. The dreamer is so
impacted by the images he has just witnessed that he can sometimes mistake them
for being real.
But according to Rivinus, that is rarely the case. “Dreams
are only trying hard to get a point across,” he explains. “They want to be
remembered, and bringing images back from the depths of sleep into
consciousness is difficult.” So dreams exaggerate in a way; they often use
really melodramatic images.
Rivinus explains further that the images in dreams are
always about the dreamer. “Even for those who have prophetic dreams that come
true in real life, the images, additionally, are metaphors for something going
on in the dreamer’s own life.” That is often a surprise to those dreamers who
think their dreams are about something outside of themselves.
David Rivinus is a dream analyst with over three decades of
experience. He is the author of “Always Dreaming—Gaining Insights from the
Metaphors of our Sleeping and Waking Lives” published by Ozark Mountain
Publishing. He has lectured, facilitated workshops and helped dreamers
interpret their dreams internationally. For more information, visit
www.teacherofdreams.com.