Genesis 41:12 Meaning There Was with Us There a Young

There is one within the mind who can read the meaning of what fear has made and give it back without terror. To tell the dream to this teacher is to bring the frightening picture into the light where its true content can be seen. He does not add to the dream or make it more real; he interprets it, showing each troubled thought that its images meant something simpler and kinder than the mind supposed.

He meets each dreamer according to his own dream, for the correction is exactly fitted to the fear it answers. A mind that hands its confusion to this quiet teacher within finds that the same pictures that once threatened now carry a message of peace.

Young man, an Hebrew: the teacher within who reads the dream without fear and returns its true meaning Servant to the captain of the guard: the part of the mind that appears lowly and bound yet holds the power to interpret Dreams: the fearful pictures the mind makes and brings to be understood

A higher interpreting faculty rises within a person, the crossing-over self that reads the messages of the sleeping mind, and it reads each one truly, giving every inner communication the meaning that fits it alone. Held low as a servant under the guarding force of the body, this faculty still carries the gift of understanding what the deeper mind sends up in the night. The dreams are the coded reports of the subconscious, and this power translates them not with one blanket answer but exactly, to each according to its own image. The part of a person that can decode its own inner symbols is present even when it seems imprisoned and unnoticed.

Young man, an Hebrew: the higher interpreting faculty in a person, the crossing-over self that reads the messages of the deeper mind. Captain of the guard: the guarding force of the body that holds the interpreting faculty in service beneath it. Dreams: the coded reports the subconscious sends up, each carrying its own meaning to be read.

Two men in prison each have a dream, and a young man reads them, giving each one a different meaning. That small detail matters: he interpreted to each according to his own dream. He did not hand out one ready-made answer.

A dream belongs to the person who dreamed it. The same image can mean one thing in one life and something else in another, because it grows out of that particular person's situation. Anyone who wants to understand a dream has to start from the dreamer's own life, not from a book of fixed symbols. The meaning is not general. It is shaped to fit the single person who received it.