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your dreams are your dreams for a reason

How important is it to figure out your own dream symbols?  I'll tell ya:  if my mother had my dream last night (where I held and spoke to a snake) it would have been a nightmare. If I google a meaning,  I get "Generally, a snake featured in a dream means that you're dealing with a difficult situation or unsettling emotions in your waking life. On the positive side of this dream analysis, dreaming of snakes could also mean that healing and transformation are taking place".  Random, vague, unhelpful cause am I unsettled or am I healing (or is it both?). Taking a few minutes to ask yourself "what does a snake mean to me?" is the only way interpret dreams.  personalized, in the moment, self-based information. Snakes to me represent close to the earth, balance, living in a right way, a feeler not a seer, and this most recent dream symbol (because I dream constantly, even while awake) highlights a snake's way of living could have a lot to teach me. So look at your dreams: what things are appearing? Even if you only get a snippet, work it out. Working your dreams daily (even if it's almost nothing to work with) is the only way to get that extra vision/guidance help happening more consistently. It's like sit ups: one day you can only do one, but slowly over time it really builds up. Dream work is like this too; work a snippet every day, soon you will be remembering more. Getting more dreams happening is like having your own personal newspaper arrive everyday: personalized, in the moment, self-based information. 

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