The Dream That Changed How I Understand Dream Interpretation
I am invited to walk through a portal, and as I do, I am transported to another realm and enter a room with tall, rich blue walls. I am welcomed by towering light-beings, vast and radiant, with bodies composed of flying eyeballs. They hovered around me in quiet reverence, allowing me to take in their magnificence. They grant me the ability to perform magic, and then they leave. I practice my new abilities and notice that what I desire comes effortlessly, as if it had always been within reach. I wave my hands, announcing what I want: “Abundance! Love!” and little dollar and heart symbols surround me with each claim.
When I woke, I was awestruck by the presence of these magical beings and by how the dream felt otherworldly, beyond anything I’d ever experienced before. The images stayed with me for days. I felt like something in my soul had been ignited as if the dream was asking not to be forgotten. I felt called to paint what I saw, or at least a version of it, before the images faded back into my subconscious. As I put paint to canvas, I focused on what I saw, not rushing to define what the dream meant. I didn’t need to know what the eyes meant or why love and abundance appeared so plainly. Certainly, I was curious, but what felt most important was following the feeling rather than the logic.
Many of us are taught to search for fixed meanings in dreams outside ourselves, such as in a dream dictionary.
But dreams speak in symbols that are alive and personal to each individual, shaped by how they relate to the world around them. When we slow down and listen, they often reveal a wisdom that we already carry but haven’t yet articulated.
That painting became Vivid Dreamer, marking a turning point in both my dream practice and my creative life. It was the first time I used art not just to express myself, but to translate what my inner dreamer was communicating. It changed how I understand dream interpretation. Rather than extracting meanings from my dreams as if they were puzzles, I began relating to them as living conversations from my subconscious and perhaps from something even larger, and seeing symbols as reflections of parts of myself I was still learning to recognize.
Those alien eyes invited me to pour into and see myself, like looking into a mirror with paint. When I realized I could perform magic with ease, it reconnected me to my inner power. What I want can flow to me easily - it doesn’t have to be hard. This lesson was showing up for me a lot in my waking life and was even more powerfully reflected back to me in my dreamscape. Since then, I’ve continued working with my dreams in this way: writing them down, sitting with their symbols, letting them unfold over time. And I’ve seen how much clarity can emerge when we approach dreams with curiosity instead of urgency. In truth, it wasn’t until writing this blog post and revisiting the dream, almost 4 years later, that I feel I fully understand its messages, recognizing that there may be more for me to gain from it years down the road. If you told me years ago that it might take years for me to fully understand a dream, I would’ve felt frustrated and impatient, but now I see that allowing it time to breathe and emerge in layers is a gift that helps me grow in cycles, as I’m ready. Dreams are patient and don’t demand to be solved in a single morning.
If you’ve had dreams that linger, one that feels vivid, strange, or important in a way you can’t yet articulate, you don’t have to navigate it alone. I’m beginning to share more about how I work with dreams here, and for a short time, I’m offering free dream interpretation for those who feel called to explore theirs more deeply. I’ll be publishing those interpretations here so others can witness the process and learn how dream symbols reveal themselves in layers.
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