Understanding the meanings of dreams is simple if you know a few underlying points.

These are found in a study of Huna, mainly from a book by Serge Kahili King, called "Mastering the Hidden Self."

While the book has a chapter dedicated just to interpreting the meanings of dreams, you'll need to get a couple of other pieces of data - about analysis and what "huna" means.

Huna literally means "secret." But it's not one hidden from site - it's one what people simply don't see when they are looking right at it. And that's a concept which is covered in books like Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" or Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" - or another half-dozen similar books, religious or otherwise.

Books like these tend to remind you of data you've known all along and have been sitting right in front of you.

In King's book, it's pointed out that people dream all the time - all day long, in fact. You probably have seen this when you have woken from a daydream after a heavy lunch. That "dream-world" is always present, just ignored or suppressed most of the time. You'd be amazed what you find when you simply look for it. Lots of data there.

In Dr. King's book, he also lays out four distinct ways of analyzing data. I've not seen anywhere else which covers analysis this way:

Objective - what just happened? Subjective - how do I feel about what happened? Symbolic - what does this all mean or stand for? Holistic - how does this fit in with what I'm doing, or the goals I have?

You can use any one of these when you first start analyzing. However, you may want to try the trick which sage kahunas use - which is to answer all the questions about every situation or dream you are trying to analyze. This can give you far more insight into what happened in life or in that dream.

Some only think with their feelings and this blocks their view of the world around them. By only "feeling" their way through life, they cut off experiencing other world-views and real empathy with the world around them. They can no longer observe on other levels, using feelings as a convenient crutch.

So their analysis is incomplete, and they are lacking 3/4 of the meanings they can get from any dream. Worse, as they simply react to any dream, they then are involved in their own reactions rather than looking to other possible interpretations that are possible.

Practice will make this easier for you. And another tool is to simply release all the various feelings and their underlying desires so you can analyze more clearly. To do this, select quiet spot where you won't be disturbed and sit comfortably, relaxed. Then let all the various feeling and their underlying emotions flow out of you and dissipate. As you do this on a regular basis (preferably in the same time and space), you'll be able to access the other analysis tools more easily.

At that point, you can then utilize all the ways of analysis. This enables you to extract all possible meaning more easily from any given dream or vision - whether they occur at night, during waking hours, or as a sudden insight or inspiration.

Good Hunting.