About Reading Dreams
Have you ever woken up from a strange dream and reached for your phone before you even sat up — just to search what it might mean?
That’s exactly where this site started.
Reading Dreams is a series about the dreams that follow us into the morning — the ones that make us smile, the ones that leave us uneasy, and the ones we can’t quite shake. But instead of treating dreams as fortune-telling, we look at each dream in four different ways:
- Everyday Life — the simple, human way we react to a dream before we’ve thought too hard about it
- Cultural Folklore — the traditional meanings passed down through generations
- Modern Psychology — what a dream might really be telling us about our stress, our fears, or our tiredness
- Biblical Wisdom — how the Bible treats dreams, and where it draws the line between a message from God and everyday anxiety
Each post starts with a real story — often from a friend, a family member, or a reader — and walks through what that dream could mean from all four angles. No fixed rules, no guaranteed predictions. Just a way to ask a better question than “will this come true?”
If you’ve ever stayed awake wondering what a dream meant, you’re in the right place. Thanks for reading.
About the Author
I spent over fifteen years living in the Philippines — about five and a half years in Baguio, five years in Dagupan, and five years in Manila. During that time, my life became woven together with Filipino friends, Nigerian neighbors, and friends from across Asia and the United States. Living inside that mix of cultures, I naturally learned that the same dream, the same symbol, even the same word, can mean something completely different depending on where you come from.
After returning to Korea, I began by teaching English one-on-one and in language academies, then went on to teach Korean to multicultural women and migrant workers. I later served as director of a multicultural immigrant support center affiliated with the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, and as director of a foreign worker assistance center run in partnership with the Eumseong Police Station — work that was recognized with a commendation from the Governor of Chungcheongbuk-do and a letter of appreciation from the Commissioner of the Chungcheongbuk-do Provincial Police Agency. These days, I run a caregiver training center, and have guided roughly 1,300 certified caregivers into the field so far.
Reading Dreams grew out of all of that.
It comes from a habit of watching how differently people from different backgrounds receive and understand the very same experience, and from a genuine curiosity about the heart that sits underneath it.
I’m not a psychologist or a theologian. I’m simply someone who has spent a long time listening closely to people’s lives and stories. And I still believe that dreams are among the most honest things we say and do to ourselves.