Tony Crisp Interpretation:
All analyses of dreams rest upon concepts of what a dream is, what the events or images in the dream represent, and what we feel about them. Analyzing dreams has a very long history, and this history shows the various concepts different cultures had about dreams and dreaming. See Greece (ancient) dream beliefs; history of dream beliefs; religion and dreams.
What may confuse us in looking at dreams, especially our own, is that these factors are used all at once, and all put into imagery. Even so, if we look at them as if they were all a mime, where speech may occur but the main message is expressed by dramatic mood, substitution of action for words, wordplay and puns in image form, then we can grasp what the dream is communicating. A very simplified way of understanding your dreams is to disregard the imagery. Look at what feelings are involved and see if you can recognize the glimmers of such feelings in everyday life. If you can, then go back to the dream. Consider what the drama portrays, and see what comment it makes on the everyday events the feelings are connected with. See Introduction; key words under discovering the meaning of your dream in the Introduction; language and dreams; peer dream work; processing your dreams.