How to decipher the hidden meaning of your dreams?

Do you have dreams that repeat themselves very often? Find out what they mean.

Are you one of those people who tend to have repetitive dreams but don't quite understand their meaning? If your answer is yes, perhaps this reading can help you.

Interpretation of dreams: a world to discover

The dream analysis is an important tool when you want to understand some problem of the current situation of a person, because through dreams, the brain sends clues that, knowing how to interpret them and being able to put them together, as if it were a puzzle, can lead us to understand the reason for a present discomfort in our life and which perhaps we are not even aware of or do not understand.

Recurrent dreams: analyzing their characteristics

Do you often dream about a particular situation? I remember a patient who frequently used to dream that she felt the urgent need to urinate, but when she looked for the toilets, they were not available, or they were dirty; other times she saw them ruined, and others with the water overflowing and in total disrepair, making it impossible to use them. Sometimes the urgency was so great that he would still use them, but most of the time, he would leave with the urge. This constant repetition of his dreams began to worry him because he did not understand why.

Dreams that evoke images, textures, colors and flavors.

Think for a moment of a dream you have had that disturbed youHave you noticed colors in your dreams? Have you felt smells (pleasant or unpleasant, as in the case of dirty toilets) or tastes, or perhaps you have touched something that seemed very soft or maybe you even heard your favorite song...?

In dreams, besides the fact that our senses come into play, also play an important role the emotions, which are fundamental to understand the message. And it is here where the key to understanding dreams lies: knowing how to understand the emotions that, between the interaction with objects or people, are awakened in our being.

What elements are present in your dream? In the case of the person in the toilets, there were several elements that, although they were not the same, were repeated: the urge to urinate, the dirty toilets, not being able to use them and being left with the urge, were elements that were always present, even if the scene took place in different places.

Can you identify some of those elements that recur in your dreams? Try to do so, and if you succeed, you are well on your way to analyzing your recurring dreams. recurring dreams.How do these elements you have identified interact in your dreams? Let's go back to the patient's case: she wanted to use the toilets but there was something, outside her, that prevented her from doing so (they were in bad condition).

Now, an important question: how does she feel about the interaction of those elements in her dream? Possibly it makes you feel fear, or anger or perhaps it produces joy... The person I mention was frustrated to see that there was a personal need (the urge to urinate) that she could not satisfy.

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Emotions and dreams

If you were able to identify your emotions and name them, the next step will be easier: Is there a situation in your current life that is producing this same emotion?

Bring the emotions of your dreams to real life, compare them with what you are currently experiencing, do you find any similarities between what you feel in your dream and what you feel in this particular situation you are experiencing? My patient discovered that she was having a lot of anger with her boss, but was unable to tell him for fear of losing her job, which made her feel frustrated.This situation made her feel frustrated because "there was a personal need (to express her anger and discomfort) that she could not satisfy". When she finally discovered the message of her dream, it didn't happen again, because with a little help, she found a way to express to her boss the situations she didn't like and, as far as I know, she still has her job.

Finding the message that our dreams hide is not an easy task, and it may even need the support of someone else to find its meaning.It may even need the support of someone else to find its meaning, but if we take the time to look for it, the result can be very useful to our life, because, only when we know exactly where the shoe pinches us, is when we will do something to solve it.