Tradition reads a spirit guide as inner wisdom given a face. What the guide says or shows is taken as something you already half know and are ready to hear.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.