I write;I think;I know.

then there are shadows

Can you read in your sleep? I can. It's not the easiest skill in the world to master. But with the right forethought it's doable. I began trying to read standard english. But something about the textual representation of speech disrupts dreams. So now I mostly resort to an pallet of symbols. Images, pictures, abstracted symbols of thought, feeling and instinct which my mind can translate. Singular images keyed to words that allow me to open entire pyramids of thought when I wake.

There are those who believe images found in dreams may be interpreted through the use of dream dictionaries. But that not true. The symbolic of your dreams is as uniquely personal as a fingerprint. A dream dictionary can only hand you an interpretation of another's symbols. The authors of such works fall into the trap of assuming what's true for their mind is true for others. A hypothesis that is as unprovable as it it false. It's a problem with mind even psychology shares: to what degree does a theory merely expose the inner workings of the authors mind as opposed to reflect fundamental truths about mind in general.

I'm sure there are those who disagree with my previous statement. Those who can relate personal experiences to highlight just how wrong I am. I'm sure such others believe every word they say. But they are wrong. Simply think of the way you yourself can believe thing because you find yourself wanting. A wanting which allows you to find a truth in a something simply because it's truth you want. A truth you've yet to discover how to find for yourself.

If you're not careful you can find yourself building your belief on a raft of unstable truth. Supporting any contradictions with an overarching dogma. An interconnected grid of thought and belief which exists to support itself. A thing which forces you to reject any thought which contradicts the fundamentals of your belief. A thing which overrides your reason, bypasses the rational part of your mind, and evokes emotion directly

Dreams, then, and the symbology of the images you find within them, are a uniquely personal thing. I can't tell you what your dreams mean any more than you can tell me what mine mean. Yet with a little bit of insight it's not hard to resolve dream imagery into a coherent understanding of the interactions between your mind and wherever you believe dreams come from. For that's the other odd thing about dreams: they are what you believe them to be. Believe it's just the day's mental noise resolving itself and you'll discover that's true. Believe you're dreaming into the mass-unconscious and you'll discover that's true too.