Glossary: Objective level

Interpreting a dream in such a way that persons and objects are understood to represent the objectively existing persons or objects (i.e. a dream of one’s husband is actually about one’s husband). This is a fairly rare occurrence; usually, a subjective interpretation is the more accurate one. Sometimes, though, the dream is actually conveying things about the specific person or object. These dreams are often prophetic, and either provide the dreamer with important hidden information, or, occasionally, information about the future.

There is, additionally, a second kind of objective level that I have been encountering. It's almost a middle stage between subjective and objective levels of interpretation. In this case figures in a dream represent outer figures but not in a one-to-one way but, rather, are representative of a general group. For instance, dream figures of a certain type of popular woman can represent a general group of people in the dreamer's outer life that the they perceive as popular.