Dreaming Around Your Moon

Since ancient times, dreams have been regarded in many religions and cultures as a source of insight and inspiration for our waking lives. It is a wonderful development that modern science is catching up with ancient dream wisdom. Studies show that regular dream recall is good for your emotional and psychological well-being.  

When it comes to understanding the meaning of those dream symbols—and decoding their meaning is by far the biggest stumbling block when it comes to dream work – tuning into the lunar vibrations associated with phases of the moon can be a game changer. There are many phases of the moon’s roughly 29-day cycle, but to enhance your dream work, you only need to be aware of the four main phases: new, waxing, full, and waning. To find out the moon’s current phase, simply go online and find a moon phase calculator.  

Night Vision 

The New Moon. 

This is the phase when the moon is dark and is most associated with setting intentions and fresh starts. The new moon is the ideal time to pay attention to boosting your dream recall. It is the phase most associated with setting intentions and fresh starts. So, tell yourself you are going to take your dreams seriously again. Set the intention to dream before you fall asleep.  

To start investing in your dreams, you must set the intention to regard your dreams as valuable and wonderful again.  If you struggle with dream recall, pay attention to your stress levels during the day, eat plenty of vitamin B in your diet as that is the dream recall vitamin and read lots of fantasy novels. A spot of video gaming is also excellent for dream recall.  

Be patient with yourself if you have got into the habit of forgetting your dreams. You are dreaming (everybody does at least five times a night), you have just stopped remembering them. Simply thinking about the possibility of dreaming and reading this blog may well trigger recall on waking again because where your attention goes during the day is what your dreams return to at night. And when you wake up, keep still with your eyes closed for a few moments as any movement pushes you too fast into waking reality, and your dreams will not catch you. Avoid alarm clocks, if possible, as they are the enemy of dream recall and heart health and shake you awake too violently. Natural waking is optimum for dream recall.  

The Waxing Moon. 

This is when the moon is steadily growing in the sky and the perfect time to take positive action and tend to your sleep hygiene. Make sure you get plenty of exercise and natural daylight during the day so that when you go to bed, you are exhausted and ready to dream. Use your mind’s creativity during the day so that it has plenty of inspiration to empower your dreams. Avoid sleep-disrupting screens an hour before bedtime. If you are not sleeping well, you will not have enough quality REM or rapid eye movement stage of sleep when most but not all dreaming happens. Make your bedroom a temple for your dreams and ensure your bed is as comfortable as possible.  

And this is also a good time not so much to focus on dream decoding but on making writing down your dreams a consistent morning ritual. Put a pen and paper by your bed every night, and every morning when you wake up, write something down. If you can’t recall anything, write down how you feel because that feeling is likely inspired by a dream you had. Many of us make the mistake of interpreting or getting lost in one dream, dream journalling shows that your dreams are best interpreted as a series rather than stand-alone [REF]. Collect at least 20 or so dreams before you begin the business of dreamwork. Only then can a bigger picture emerge, and you can start to see how there is a poetic invisible voiceover or narrative alongside your waking life.  

The Full Moon.  

This is when the moon is fully lit up, and the sky is illuminated. It only lasts a few days in each lunar cycle and is the ideal time to dream decode in earnest. If you started collecting your dreams when the moon was dark or new, you should have two weeks’ worth of dream material, so there will be plenty to interpret. Think of your dreams like a TV series you love. You must tune into the next episode for the plot to thicken.  

It’s a good idea to write down your dreams alongside your waking activities or what you are doing or thinking or feeling in your waking life during this time. In this way, you have both a dream and a waking journal, and it will help you understand the interconnection between your dreaming and waking life. Your dreams inspire your life, and your life inspires your dreams.  

The Waning Moon. 

This phase, when the moon slowly diminishes in size every night, is the perfect time to reflect even more deeply on the associations that your dream symbols inspire in you. You will start to see that your dreams are always commenting on or predicting situations in your waking life and that all your dreams are also commenting on each other.  And the more you compare your waking life with your dream life, the more you see clearly that your dream life is a symbolic, poetic, artistic, nonsense, hilarious, crazy, infinitely visionary voiceover. And that’s when your inner psychic awakens. Indeed, some recent research suggests that your dreams when the moon is waning are most likely to be highly intuitive/precognitive. 

Constant Illumination. 

Dreaming around your moon is an ongoing revelation. During the day, your conscious reason and logic keep you grounded. In your dreams, however, your unconscious intuition and creativity can safely go wild and transcend time and space. Dreams reflect your current state of mind and can even offer glimpses of your future. Dreams allow you to meet all aspects of your inner world: your essence, your inner child, your critic, your shadow, your past, your present, and your future self.  

Dreams are your nocturnal intuition, your inner therapist (and far cheaper than a real one). When your ego goes to sleep, your deepest needs and desires can run free in the world of the dream. Your night visions are both cathartic and healing, as well as opportunities to brainstorm and discover creativity you didn’t know you had. (Indeed, a surefire way to release creative block is to write down a dream you have had.) But the biggest stumbling block to dreamwork is not understanding what they mean. Dreams typically don’t make sense because they speak to you in the language of the unconscious, which, often is not literal but symbolic. In other words, your dreams are rich in hidden or deeper meaning. They speak to you as a poet or artist would. They will use symbols, metaphors, pathetic fallacy, figurative language, association, and puns. Your role is to dive deep into your dreams and become like a detective discovering your personal clues and meanings.  

The more you tune into the phases of the moon to understand your dreams better, the more you begin to understand and constantly surprise yourself. You understand that your higher self always has your back and always wants the best for you. Within you, there is an inner guide, your best friend who loves you unconditionally and never lies – or dies if you believe in the possibility of your life after death.