I do give a prelude ,
or a preface :
That I have said things like this before, so it might seem a bit redundant, but those things have been buried in time, and my understanding is greater now, so I wish to be of service to dreamers in order that they understand how our subconscious mind is structured, and what it is.
In the current experience of reality we have to deal with a society and education, instruction and modeling from parents and authorities.
There is the shadow which contains all taboo and forbidden information and actions, be it dancing, or love making, or eating ice-cream, or homosexuality, or not ahdering to a particular line of thought, being a hippy. Most of the real taboos I will not mention, because they are still taboo.
Now some taboos are actually anti-social and harmful to both the collective and the self. However because society has a shadow, anyone that goes into the shadows becomes tainted by the darkness of not being completely and fully loved and accepted, hence this “gateway theory” proves true, but only because of society’s doing and nay-saying, ignoring and judging, i.e., failling to love, heal, integrate, and accept. For instance, if dancing is an abomination, and one begins to dance, they may be integrated and invited into other shadow activities, and may become activated as a rebel in consciousness, at which point they are not a patriot or a missionary (of the noble sense) but rather, are acting only in an effort to negate and destroy, the negative form of anarchy.
This cannot exist unless significant portions of people close their eyes and wear blind folds to behavior that others somehow at some point thought were normal and not harmful.
Now again, this is only in reference to taboo activities that are not objectively harmful to self or others!
So, to be integrated into society gives us a sense of morality, however these morals have been, throughout his-story, imposed upon us by the outside, and we have had to agree with them.
If these values are imposed with a great fierceness and an absolute belief that right and wrong are impossible to know except by a deity or institution, tyranny forms, and dogma and blindness create an elaborate circus and merry -go-round in which a system of punishments, consequences, fears, and arbitrary regulations, constrains the minds of all who are brought up within this system.
To the extent which an educated “democracy” of sorts is allowed to come to their own conclusions, communicate, explore, love, and respect, and look at objectively, questioning their reality, a fair and equitable system exists in which a man may do anything, and never be punished for it lest he directly harms another.
In this system, most all of our current laws and regulations would be seen as outright absurd and sometimes slightly tyrannical, or blindly bureaucratic.
Why does this matter ?
The mind of the child is free of impressions and programs from its culture, and hence, can see things the way they are. Nothing has any direct meaning to the child for the child has not developed context.
It is the development of context that begins the formation of the imagination and personalities within it.
Taking a synaptic leap here :
Think about a dream about your mother. Your friend. Anyone. Any person in your dream has some power and authority over your freedom and sovereignty and ability to make decisions. These people are either friends and supportive of your own innate Will, or they are not !
When we sleep, we encounter the unraveling of society’s programs and the unfolding of our own ability to create and experience what we wish, and yet, unless we have incredible lucidity, many of these programs will still somehow be restricting our own innate desires and imposing ideas of right, wrong, grief.
The yogis called these samskaras, neutral forms which are given a colored meaning by culture and individual perception of reality.
Why does this matter ?
Think about my dream I had today. I desired a companion to make love to.
This means I have to encounter issues of : self esteem, boundaries, fears, etc,
and in fact, sure enough, all of these came up.
I have learned they always will and do. Dreams show us our beliefs about whether or not we are able to achieve what we want to achieve.
Everything is a fragment of ourself!
This means that we are free to author our own destiny, to the extent we realize that everything we are looking at is a mirror.
How does this become relevant to waking life?
I read a quote today I wish to share : “sometimes you get your feelings hurt and the other
person didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, there are all kinds of hurts, that
are SELF INFLICTED, we want to go so far as to say that all of them are-
but that’s hard to hear those early stages when your powerless and little
and someone else has control, it FEELS like you don’t have control, but
YOU DID, you had detachment.”
Wherever we are, we have become here through agreements. Perhaps they were coercive, obstinate, maybe even violent, but they have created our own dream-scape which is either a wide open sky or a prison of smoke and mirrors that can easily be shattered by the minds of the willing and the brave.
For instance, let us say that someone is constantly insecure and seeking approval, but you become irritated. If you are in a relationship with that person, you, by choosing to be irritated ("No its her fault she’s ________! ") rather than choosing to kindly educate and steer her towards a clarity that you obviously perceive, since you can tell something is off within her, you are creating a very persistent dream of aggravation!
anything anyone says is an opportunity for you to join into them in communication, and then share with them your wisdom, in a clear and proper way, without being zealous! This is the most important thing in the world, because the world is created currently by a large group of people who can tell that 2+2 is NOT a monkey watching the Simpsons , but four!
Our children, our young ones, our young adults, have an eye to see hypocrisy and a notion of how to make things better, and we are juxtaposed against a sea of stagnant adults who are terrified of losing their dishonesty.
This is time in rapid evolutions of consciousness made possible by the internet, and all of this is shown to us in total clarity in our dreams.
Everything that we can possibly become is there for us in our dreams, all the dark, all the love, and all the obstacles we inherited to overcome.
The stuff that dreams are made of.
Goal : Pay deep attention to your relationships with dream characters, and learn from them, and see what they represent, and how they relate to your goals, desires, and ambitions.
Dreams are one part a reflection of what has happened to us, one part a reflection of what might happen to us, and summarize who we truly our and what our role is within this reality.
it does not seem possible to truly explain them no matter how much is thought or said, but I hope this provides interesting and allows new learnings to be.
Here is the last addendum for a while :
( that statement in itself is a mini-dream! )
Lets say you have a door, and you have a lock.
The lock is collectively saturated with thoughts,
this is the collective unconscious. These thoughts are so deep that they influence modern times without people often knowing why.
There is then the personal subconscious, which stores all of our thoughts about locks.
Maybe it is just totally neutral, and you are locking a door every-day without knowing why.
Now lets say you have a fear controlled being who watches COPS and the news all day long, who owns a police radio, and is convinced its just very very dangerous.
In her dream world, if you could look at all her thoughts attached to a lock,
it would be very very dark and unpleasant.
Now lets say someone else watches Opera and reads the Secret, goes out and helps the community,
they might leave their keys in their front door in a “dangerous” neighborhood, and be fine.
Now lets say you have someone that hears these statements, and they say “yes that makes sense”
or they say “no surely they would be _________” and are very capable of telling you all the bad things that can happen to people.
What is filled in the blanks, this is social programming, that is, an enforced view about the world which is either positive or negative. 
It is so that once someone is in a groove and trend of thinking and belief, they encounter situations which add like dominoes in perpetual motion.
We can have a beautiful young girl looking in Cosmo and believing she is fat and ugly, while starving herself to death.
This is the stuff dreams are made of.
We can have the same girl encounter some positive uplifting thoughts, and forget all about her appearance, and not even have one thought about how she “looks” when she looks in the mirror.
This is the stuff dreams are made of.
Chutes and ladders.
its all about learning to “look around, choose your own ground”
its all about learning that we have as much power as we wish to, or as little was we wish to, regardless of what has happened, NOW.
and NOW is lucidity,