What do dreams mean? Do your dream experiences really have any interpretation? These questions have been asked for thousands and thousands of years throughout history, and it is not for less. The world of dreams has always been quite attractive to everyone, because many times we wake up and we don’t know very well what has just passed through our mind.
To find out what your subconscious tells you while you sleep we have contacted Javier Esteban, a professor at the Master of Psychoanalysis at the University of Salamanca and dream therapist. Thanks to him we will discover much more close to the world of dreams, that world as striking as special.
The idea that dreams have no meaning comes from neuroscience, when scientists began studying areas of the brain while we sleep. Several experts came to the theory that dreams are the result of chance, something like thinking that the mind during the night became a kind of computer that produces loose thoughts.
However, after 40 years of neuroscience development, it has taken a step back and has come to the conclusion that dreams are not random. Because, if they were, how could they be repeated? How could we live an experience of lucid dreams? Dreams are not weighed, they are not measured, it is very difficult to work with them, but after more than 200 years of research it can be said that dreams do mean something.
In the words of specialist Javier Esteban, “dreams are letters that we send to ourselves.” We can open those letters or not do it, but there is what we are telling ourselves. In short, dreams for the whole history of mankind have meaning. Of course, we must take into account that in dreams we tend to talk in metaphors, so sometimes it costs so much to interpret them when we wake up.
Surely more than once has happened to you: you wake up for many days with the feeling of having had the same dream or, at least, the same theme. That is, you have had a dream that has been repeated. Many times we dream exactly the same, however other times the message is the same but there are different scenarios. For example, dream of losing a plane one night, another dream of losing a train …
What is the reason for having repeated dreams? The truth is that, when we have this kind of dreams, we have a very clear message for ourselves: we have something pending. This is something that we are considering in an obsessive way, we have a pending issue that does not let us rest in peace. And the content of that matter is, surely, integrated into your dreams. You just have to pay attention to the images you have in your head to know what is so that you are worrying you so much and how you could solve it to stop having this type of repetitive dreams with such assiduity.
Did you know that everyone has five to six dreams every night? Although many people say otherwise and affirm with a routingness that they have never dreamed, the truth is that they have done it but later, when they wake up, they absolutely remember anything. Everyone is able to dream and, in fact, everyone dreams, but we cannot always remember.
We can find the reason directly in neuroscience, because when we wake up a change of brain fluids and that makes us forget everything we have dreamed, because that experience becomes in areas of the brain of ‘difficult access’. In addition, our life rhythms must be taken into account to find the reasons for forgetting dreams.
Every morning we tend to wake up at the alarm clock, with quite overwhelming tune, to get out of bed as soon as possible. In addition, we usually get up with very marked obligations in our heads, such as losing the bus, going to work or take children to school. This causes the mind to be distracted in other things and, in the end, the dream falls into the deepest of the forgetfulness.
According to the specialist Javier Esteban in the video, to do is not do. What does this mean? Well, that to remember what we dream of during every night it is better that we do not do an overwriting or that we have to perform a technique too elaborate to achieve it. On the contrary, it is much easier than a priori might seem.
The only thing you should do when you wake up is to be very relaxed in bed, thinking about the images that come from the dream you just have for a few minutes. Then, you can look at a fixed point and put the mind blank so that fragments of your dream may appear and, little by little, recover its meaning.
Another trick? You can also make a kind of sleep capture. If you want to prepare this last trick you must schedule your alarm clock for a quarter of an hour before what you usually do. The reason? During the last hour and a half of sleep there is the remote phase of deep sleep and, if you have the regulated dream, you can wake up in the middle of a dream. In this way you can hunt a dream, you will be able to break it at a time of the REM phase and surely that, when you wake up, you will remember what you just went through your mind in an easy and simpler way than you think.
And you, have you ever done any trick to remember your dream? Do you know what meaning have the dream experiences you have every night?
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