Why do many dreams seem so strange, and seemingly make no sense?
A. Dreams are most often described as being “strange, weird, or frightening.” Dreams seem to make no sense because they are in the coded secret language of symbols and metaphors. Your dream images are like hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, or pictographs – encoded symbols. They do tell a story, but you have to know the code to understand the story. The ancient hieroglyphics of Egypt could not be understood until the discovery of the Rosetta stone. This slab of basalt found near the Nile in 1799 had a decree carved on it in three different languages. Two sections of the stone were written in two unknown, ancient Egyptian languages. Before l799, these languages made no sense. Luckily, a third section of the stone was written in Greek. This known language provided the key to deciphering the meaning of Egyptian, hieroglyphic picture writing. One needs a decoding key to unlock the secrets of one’s personal dream symbols. There is a part of you that understands symbolism. That “part” is your intui