You may consider that it is a matter of superchery, but the truth is that the interpretation of dreams can help you and much in your day to day. For this to happen, to discover the true utility of dreams, we have to understand its meaning and do so goes through leaving behind magical and premonitory aspects and focusing on the psychological aspect. Because dreams contain great doses of magic, it is true, especially of that magic that consists in giving light to the darkest aspects of your interior.
We sleep to rest and recover from the physical and mental activity of the day and in our body something similar to disconnection occurs. However, the brain is not deactivated while we sleep and create the dream world of dreams. The dreams that can be pleasant or nightmares, dreams that lead us to childhood or that allow us encounters with people who are no longer in our lives.
We can have recurring dreams and spend a long season dreaming of the same. We also have dreams with animals, which can be very annoying or vigorizing dreams. Then there are the dreams in which we would stay to live forever and, on the other hand, strange dreams, fantasy dreams, surreal dreams. Many dreams apparently have nothing to do with our day to day or with our daily activity.
Sometimes we do not give importance to dreams precisely because we do not identify with what happens in sleep, we find no relationship with our life. And yet he has it. There is always a connection between what we dream and our own life because after all dreams reproduce our world although sometimes they do it in a very convoluted way.
And precisely to establish that connection between dreams and our life is the interpretation of dreams. To get to the bottom of the matter, to explain why when you have emotional discomfort you dream of mosquitoes, for example. Or why you can detect an anxiety problem when you dream that you want to talk and you can’t.
We can think that dreams are capricious mental creations without any meaning, but it is not. Dreams are useful, dreams can help us understand each other better and detect some problems in time. But the main utility of dreams is to get out of all that we have inside.
It occurs with nightmares, for example, that they do not reach your dreams to torture or way of punishment but to point out those deepest fears that or have not been able or have not wanted to see yet. The dreams in which anguish, fear or restlessness predominates are alarm signs that something is wrong inside you and as you should take them. After all, they are more help.
To understand this issue we can make a comparison with instinct. Think of all those occasions that something inside has activated the danger alarm without knowing very well why or without finding obvious reasons to consider it a threat. Your instinct has spoken and with the passage of time I prove that he was right. In a similar way, dreams act, getting ahead without being premonitory dreams so that you are aware of something that in a more instinctive plane you already know.
With these keys you can intuit how useful dreams can be and how your interpretation can help you. In fact, many psychological therapies use the interpretation of dreams in their therapeutic process to identify and treat different emotional disorders. Because it is there, in the field of emotions, where the dream world has the most useful.
In addition to acting as alarm to detect emotional problems as we have seen in the case of nightmares, some dreams also serve to free those emotions that we do not manage to identify, to relax tensions. Imagine that dream in which you fly through the oceans, the feeling of freedom that produces you, the power that transmits you, the liberation of daily ties or responsibilities. Is it just a dream? It is much more.
Dream interpretation can also help treatment to overcome anxiety or even some phobias. And the method depends on the therapist that uses it but fundamentally it is about using dreams as a symbolic content to understand the reality of the dreamy. The symbols are here the true interpreters of dreams and those that help us find the specific meaning.
At this point we find some problems of dream interpretation. Are there universal symbols? It may be a matter of faith, but the truth is that to understand the meaning of a dream, you have to look for symbolism, but also to attend to the context of the person who dreams of it. And when we talk about context we talk about its inner reality, its daily life and its sociocultural experience, so the dilemma of the universality of some symbols remains in a mere anecdote.
To give some examples, the Lion symbolizes in all cultures that know this animal leadership and power, the act of flying symbolizes freedom, running is a full -fledged escape and the feeling of disability is quite evident when you paralyze yourself in dreams. The danger is intuited when someone persecutes you in dreams and the altered mood is inevitable in a dream full of violence and blood.
It is true that not all dreams present symbols as evident as those we have mentioned. And it is also true that the meaning of the dream depends on many factors. The experience of that day, the experience accumulated in life, the stimuli received that same day, the stimuli of a lifetime, the interests, the beliefs, the mood, the concrete concerns, the common concerns … everything influences when handling those symbols.
We must also know how to find the balance between paying attention to a concrete dream seeking its meaning and relativizing its content. Something that costs a lot if it’s recurring dreams. Those dreams that are repeated one night and another and another and that many times are ourselves what we create that insistence by worrying excessively to find their interpretation, to understand the message.
Recurring dreams are important, what doubts, and are generally not pleasant dreams. Nor do they necessarily have to be nightmares, but after a few nights there is a certain tiredness and the need to understand the dream appears. The star of recurring dreams is your ex, but you don’t have to take it as personal.
Because some nightmares are also recurring such as dreaming of your teeth, dreaming of blood or dreaming of falls. And another very frequent that does not have to be a nightmare is to dream of pregnancies or babies. And what do we know about your interpretation? Well, this type of dreams speaks of insecurity, anxiety, frustration and new projects. And what we do know is that at the moment you find an interpretation for those recurring dreams you will stop having them.
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Bibliographic references:
- Méndez, Ja & Iceta, M. (2002). The theory of dreams. Part 1: A bibliographic review. International Psychoanalysis Magazine, 12.
- Rodríguez-Capote, G. (2013). Cognitive interpretation of dreams. Madrid: Palibrio.
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