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Lauri Loewenberg

Certified Dream Analyst

Lauri Loewenberg is a certified dream analyst based in Tampa, Florida. Lauri studied Dream Psychology and became a certified Dream Analyst under the tutelage of Jungian trained, Ph.D., in 1996. Since then, she has analyzed and researched more than 100,000 dreams from people of all walks of life around the world. For over 25 years, Lauri has been one of the most in-demand radio guests in the country, logging more than 3,000 interviews where she provides on-the-spot dream analysis for call in listeners. Her expertise has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, Esquire, Maxim, Modern Bride, Glamour, Woman’s World, Woman’s Day, Prevention, Newsweek and Cosmopolitan. In March 2011, Lauri released her third book, Dream On It: Unlock Your Dreams, Change Your Life (St. Martin’s Press).

Professional Achievements

  • Author of Dream on It, Unlock Your Dreams, Change Your Life (St. Martin's Press)
  • Featured on The View, Good Morning America, CNN, The Katie Couric Show, The Steve Harvey Show, Fox Business, Live with Kelly and Mark, and E! Entertainment Television
  • Has recurring spots on both The Today Show and Dr. Oz
  • Guest lecturer at the University of South Florida and the University of Tampa

Certifications & Organizations

  • Member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams

Favorite Piece of Advice

Never dismiss your dreams as "just a dream." They are the most powerful part of who you are. They are messages from you, to you, about you, in order to improve you. When you work with your dreams, you can change your life!

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Forum Comments (7)

What does dreaming of spiders mean?
In my 30 years as a Professional Dream Analyst and researcher, I have found that spiders most often represent deceitful behavior or the "web of lies" someone in your life is spinning. However, while there are common meanings for certain symbols that show up in our dreams collectively, dreams are very personal to the dreamer.

So a fun little trick to find out what the spider that crawled into your dream means specifically for you, is to ask yourself this: If I was hired to write the definition of a spider for Websters Dictionary, what would I write? Go ahead and write that down. Now, take a look at it. Do the words you chose also describe anyone in your life lately? Do they describe any part of you?

I did this little exercise with one of my clients who had been dreaming of spiders. She described them as home invaders. That is an interesting choice of words! When I asked her if anyone in her life had been invasive, she was able to connect it to a friend that had snuck into her bedroom, while visiting, and read some of her private journal. And naturally, she now wants to squash her! Lol. Figuratively, of course.
How do you interpret dreams?
I always recommend keeping a dream journal along with a day journal. Your dreams tonight are actually a commentary on what happened today. So, with a journal, you'll be able to connect the dots between what's going on in the dream to something that happened the previous day. For example, if your dream was particularly stressful, odds are it's because that day was particularly stressful.
Why am I dreaming of my ex so much?
The ex we tend to dream about the most is our first love. This can happen 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years later. The ex in your dreams is not playing themselves in the dream anymore, though. They have become the face of excitement and passion. So, when the first love shows up in your dream, ask yourself, "Do I need to bring back these feelings into my life?"

Even if you're in a healthy relationship, it can become very routine. So the ex or the first love can show up to say, let's find a way to bring the passion back. If you're in a dry spell and the first love shows up, it's your subconscious saying, "We want this again."

This dream doesn't necessarily mean you want that person again. But the subconscious has this really cool way of encoding the first time that you ever experience something impactful. Whomever you experience that with becomes the face of it.

Our dreams very often pull things from the past in order to give us a message about the present. So, ask yourself, "What stands out about the ex? What did I learn from that relationship? How can I apply that to right now?"
What does it mean when a snake appears in my dream?
Snakes are one of those really cool dream symbols that can have a lot of meanings, from cosmic and spiritual, to health-related, to a narcissistic person in your life. So, what I have found in my 30 years of experience as a professional dream analyst is that the most common meaning for a snake in a dream is someone or something in your life that is toxic, someone who exhibits low-down, dirty, sneaky behavior. However, they can also represent some kind of healing that you're going through because the snake is a symbol for physicians.

Snakes can also represent spiritual awakenings because they shed their skin. This can often represent you shedding old beliefs and taking on some kind of new skin, so to speak, a new belief system.
I had a dream where my teeth fell out. What does it mean?
This is a super common one. Most often, this dream is connected to communication.

Any dream that involves the mouth, the lips, the teeth, the tongue, or the throat area will usually be a commentary on the way you've been communicating lately. So, if your teeth are falling out and you're trying to get them to stay in or you're trying to put them back in, it's usually because you've said something that you wish you could take back. You've allowed something to fall out of your mouth.

If you have this dream, ask yourself, "What was I thinking when my teeth fell out?" This may represent something you need to fix, or something you need to contend with.
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