Discoveries in a dream are a way for people to think about and understand their life’s challenges but they can also be a place where we learn self-healing and personal development. You’ll know when you’ve transcended the life challenge that is keeping you stuck once you feel an emotional maturity in your waking life due to its resolution in your dreams.
After making a discovery in their dreams, people generally enter into a process of extended interpretation in which they explore the meaning of their dream. The exploration and elaboration of their dreams through many cycles and circular movements followed by a greater integration leads to self-discovery. Meaningful insight on discovering oneself emerges from this new self-awareness.
The discovery that comes after exploring and explicating one’s in-dream discovery usually leads to an intensified search on the reasons, or causes, that led to the original turmoil in one’s life that is expressed by the initial manifestations found inside one’s dreams as disorderly images. After confronting all aspects until completion, understanding of oneself arises – often this is achieved in stages such as emotional maturity accompanied by spiritual enlightenment and intellectual maturations leading to emotional maturity and even transcendence.