Cracking Your Dream Code: Awaken to the Meaning of Your Dreams

By Joyce Cyr

In a guide to demystifying personal dream codes, Joyce Cyr blends science, psychology, spirituality, and common sense to help you navigate through the powerful messages contained in your dreams to understand what stage you are going through in your life, process fears or anger, gain insight into relationships, foresee future events, and much more. While leading others on a step-by-step journey, Cyr reiterates well-known practices, introduces new concepts that complement the process to understanding and building dream codes, and cites examples of people who analyzed their dreams to resolve complex problems, make big decisions, and move forward in life with confidence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 29, 2024
• ISBN: 9781663260185

Joyce Cyr

Joyce Cyr has over twenty years of expertise in the science and application of dream interpretation, and has helped thousands unravel their dreams through public readings and workshops throughout North America. After leaving the business world to pursue a more creative lifestyle, she embarked on a career in the film and television industry where she worked on productions and was introduced to acting, modelling and writing. This is her second book.

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iUniverse rev. date: 05/22/2024

To all who lead dream-filled lives!

In the hopes that you may experience the delights and discoveries of your own adventures, I take all my practicing, studying, reading, and notes from travelling and from listening to and learning from other speakers, teachers, and dreamers to fill these pages.

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1     In the Beginning

Chapter 2     Do Dreams Provide a Purpose?

Chapter 3     The Effects of Dreams

Chapter 4     Dream Recall

Chapter 5     Dream Activation

Chapter 6     Interpretation Techniques

Chapter 7     Common Dreams

Chapter 8     Lucid Dreaming

Chapter 9     Dream Element Dictionary

Chapter 10   Final Thoughts

Bibliography

About the Author

Endnotes

PREFACE

I have always dreamed a lot and remember many of my dreams. Remembering dreams as far back as age three, recalling exactly what was seen in those vivid scenes is normal fo r me.

It wasn’t until I was much older and the dreams began foretelling things that would later happen that I began to look into better understanding my dreamlife. Some dreams gave me answers to questions that I had been thinking about during the day. Some provided me with a better understanding of people and circumstances around me. Many were clearly understandable, vibrant, and in full color. I knew exactly what they meant.

There were, however, even more dreams that were confusing. They seemed to possess a code that required cracking. In other words, they seemed more symbolic.

Often the symbolic dreams held important information, yet I didn’t recognize them until the incident actually occurred. It seemed it would have been much more helpful if I had understood the dream at the time that I had it instead of after the event.

Having the motivational gift of teaching, I amassed a library about dreams from various sources. I have attempted to list as many as I could in the bibliography for those interested. It is by no means an exhaustive list of my sources, but it was the beginning of my search.

I like to read for information, yet I found that getting to the meat of what I was looking for took quite some time. There were varying opinions, multiple strategies, and conflicting interpretations.

Don’t get me wrong. I did find some value in each work I read. It was just a slow and tedious process.

At the time, I was looking for guidance on how to plainly and clearly interpret my own dreams. Everything can seem so generic after a while that it can become more confusing. At least it was that way for me.

At that point in my life, my frustrations led me to a group of people who also desired to understand their dreams better. That was where I learned that it can be easier to interpret someone else’s dreams than your own, at least at first. I learned so much from talking to other people who were also seeking. A natural byproduct was that I began to dream even more.

In 2001, I took courses, first in Toronto to learn the basics, and then in Prince Edward Island at a weeklong workshop taught by the late John Paul Jackson the author, teacher, and founder of Streams Ministries International.¹ This pursuit of wisdom and information led me to get involved in different outreach events throughout the United States and Canada. I then joined Doug Addison, speaker, author, coach, founder, and president of Inlight Connection,² and Cindy McGill, author, speaker and founder of Freedom Lounge,³ along with many others in setting up dream interpretation tables in shopping malls and coffee shops in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics (which I jokingly referred to as the Olympic Dream Team at the time). I spent four months working with others online interpreting their dreams.

Another memorable event occurred at the height of tourist season in Salem, Massachusetts,⁴ on October 31, 2003, for All Hallows Eve (also known to many as Halloween or the night of the witches’ ball), but the various events run throughout the month of October. Psychics, wizards, and witches, looking for interpretations and spiritual readings, came to share their dreams with our group.⁵ They were friendly, open, receptive, and grateful.

It was gratifying, at every event, to see the eyes of the people to finally have an answer to something that had perplexed them for a long time. We met some people who seldom remembered their dreams but had one they wanted clarity on. We also met many who remembered their dreams all the time.

Eventually, I built on my own dream dictionary of symbols as well as techniques, which I call my dream code, and became more successful at understanding my dreams. I filled many journals with my dreams. I had pages and pages of notes that I had taken to help me understand this twenty-year journey.

Everywhere I went people were open, curious, and excited to talk about their dreams. I received emails, phone calls, and text messages with questions. Sometimes answering a simple question sent them in the right direction of understanding their own dream. I even did some workshops with a workbook I developed.

That was the origin story of this book. I decided to record my findings, to the best of my ability, for others who were on the same journey. I took the small workbook that I had created and expanded the information I found immensely helpful. The true challenge was taking the information pages and turning them into what is now hopefully an interesting read filled with helpful information.

This is not a book filled with Freudian or Jungian information; it does not deal in oneirology, psychology, psychiatry, psychophysiology, neurology, neuropsychology, biochemistry, sleep science technology, sleep lab management, or anything that involves the brain and its functions as an intentional study. There is plenty of other material out there for that if it is the path you choose to study.

This book is meant to be written in laymen’s terms for practical, everyday use. I also did not go back in history or try to find statistics to prove to you how historically Eastern cultures have given more focus on dreams than Western cultures. I didn’t try to prove or disprove who had the earliest recorded dream in history. Suffice it to say, findings of recorded dreams have been dated to at least 5,000 to 10,000 BC. Egyptians, Greeks, Babylonians, and Hebrews have all been credited with recorded dreams in ancient history. Dreams have also held an important place in history among Indigenous cultures.

In the Bible, Adam and Eve are recorded as being in existence between 9,800 and 9,700 years ago, as well as the Upper Paleolithic/Lower Mesolithic humans, who were recorded as hunter-gatherers.

In some ancient writings, Adam’s first dream brings him into paradise; his second shows his foolish submissiveness to his wife, which lost paradise for them. Eve dreams that Cain takes the blood of Abel, which caused her and Adam to separate Cain and Abel from each other by assigning them different occupations, one a shepherd and the other a farmer, at different locations in order to stop this dream from happening. Unfortunately it did not stop Cain from killing Abel. This book was chosen to be excluded from the other ancient writings in what is now known as the Bible. Whatever your beliefs, these writings were recorded demonstrating a belief in dreams.⁶

There is a myriad of directions that one could go in this line of study. I chose to simply try to help others crack their own dream code. I hope you enjoy the read and the journey.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to express my gratitude to the many who were involved in my journey during the development of this book. They provided support and talked things over, allowing me to share my dreams and th eirs.

Dr. Joe Dispenza, thank you for your powerful teachings on quantum physics and for giving words to my experiences and confirming that there really is more that we can access in life when we learn clearer steps on how. I know I will meet you in person one day.

To the late John Paul Jackson, I thank you for the work you have done on the topic of dreams.

Doug Addison, thank you for the love that emanates from your very being and touches the lives of many. I greatly appreciate your teachings and your books, especially Write Your Book Quickly. I am so glad I met you in 2002 at the Winter Olympics. You have changed my life.

Cindy McGill, thank you for being an inspiration of strength and caring in such a powerful way.