Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 3, Issue - 7, 1 January 2019 | Page 24

Thursday, 13 December 2018
COLOURS in DREAMS -
What the Colours in Dreams Mean
Colours provide us with valuable insights into our life’s experiences. A
knowledge of the significance of the colours in our dreams is a wonderful tool
for understanding the messages and meaning our dreams.
Using colour to interpret and understand our dreams has been utilised for
thousands of years in cultures with esoteric traditions. In human history,
colour was believed to be one of the most important symbols in the world.
The mystical and profound meanings of each colour was an integral part of all
ancient civilisations who explored dreams and their meanings. Today, modern
scientists and psychologists are recognising and acknowledging the
beneficial uses of colour for therapeutic and medicinal purposes.
Researchers have discovered that specific colours trigger the same
responses in people, regardless of their culture or background.
Even though we may not be consciously aware of it, we acknowledge the
energy and power of the colours in our lives, and this is often reflected in our
dreams and dream imagery and symbology. Colour plays an important role in
every area of our lives.
Colour has much symbology and imagery and represents our emotional
states and conditions which are stimulated in our dreams. Colour combines
with symbology and imagery to form a meaning or interpretation of the dream
image and adds a greater emotional significance. The colour that is assigned
to the dream imagery adds meaning and depth.
Some dreams may be perceived as colourless due to the dreamer’s sense of
recall. Colour recall may also be associated with emotional attachments and
memories.
Colour plays an integral and important role in everyone’s lives and provides
us with valuable insight into our experiences through our dreams. Colours
appear in our dreams in many ways. Sometimes an image can be vibrant or
partial, or entirely in the natural colours of our world, such as sky blue, brown
and green tones.
The clearer the colour, the more accurate and clear the meaning and
message. The muddier the colour, the more that particular area (or emotion)
is blocked for you.
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