Place a note pad and a pen on your night stand. When you wake up and recall partial or entire dreams, record it immediately no matter what time it is. The next step is to analyze your dreams. Dream books, which can prove helpful, cannot encapsulate the dreamer's individual symbols all of the time. Although some Symbols are uniform throughout most dream books, Such as the symbol of the snake meaning sex, many interpretations vary radically from one dream book to the next.
Every person attaches meaning to objects, people and events that are different for each individual.
To say lettuce, for example, reminds you of salad, would be a correct statement for most people. Yet if you spent your summers as a teenager on a lettuce farm where you experienced your first kiss, then lettuce could mean something all together different to you. Dream books can give general meanings of salad or lettuce that would suffice for many but not for all, depending on individual associations that are unable to be taken into account. Dreams usually convey an overall impression or feeling. If a particular object recurred throughout the dream, think of what that object means to you.