Dream Analysis
Your unconscious mind, the immense storehouse of memories and experiences of your life is, on a nighly basis, communicating with you in an effort to guide you through the maze of life. Every dream holds a message for you, by acknowledging and acting upon these messages life-transforming changes occur. Isn't it time you listened?
Why Do We Dream?
One of the functions of dreams is to help us to make sense of our day. Our mind looks for a best fit picture from our past and, when it finds one, it will create a dream which draws upon images from our own personal memories. In this way, our dreams continually reflect our ever changing understanding of our world.
Dreams act as safety-valves in a culture where feelings are kept under tight control. These feelings may be repressed, but they certainly don't go away. They get locked away in our bodies until, at night, when we are immobilised in our beds, we can safely feel what we are afraid to feel in our waking lives: murderous rage, terrible grief or rampant sexuality can be faced in the dream and understood because we cannot do any harm whilst asleep in our beds.
Ironically, when we sleep, it is an opportunity for us to get to know ourselves better. By working on the dream images, we can learn about ourselves and what drives us. We may meet parts of us which horrify us or, alternatively, we may find a hero within our dreams when our waking self feels a failure. If we can understand that each dream character is an aspect of ourselves, then we realise we have all the resources we need within us, if we would only look. |
