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An Introduction to Dreams
An Introduction to Dreams by Adam Fronteras
Dreams have always had great significance over the years as a way of foretelling the future and also exploring the inner emotions of the mind. In our dreams the rules that normally govern the way we work are relaxed, so we can change sex and shape and we can interact with other people that may be deceased or someone that you would not normally meet such as a film star or celebrity.
Dreams though are telling us something, as in a dream we can take on issues that we cannot confront during the day. To ignore what goes on while we are asleep is to ignore about one third of our life and so it is an important area to look at just for this reason alone.
As long ago as 1250BC in Egypt the priests of Thorus (The Egyptian God of Light) wrote down on papyrus the meaning of over 200 dreams. Dreams and dream interpretation are littered through the bible, the most known case being of Joseph and his coat of colours.
The Egyptians believed that it was important to dream and would travel to sacred shrines where they would sleep overnight to ensure that they had a special dream that would give advice.
So important were dreams seen as a prophetic warning that in Rome Emperor Augustus passed a law that required you to proclaim your dream in the market place if your dream was about the state.
Many cultures had dream beds in sacred sites and in Japan these dream incubation shrines are still used.
Everyone dreams, you may not remember what you dream, but dream you do. You do not dream all night but there are about four to five periods of night where you do dream each lasting on average about half an hour. Scientists can ascertain when we are dreaming by watching for REM or Rapid Eye Movements where your eye is looking at the scene in your mind.
Dreams seem to be the first thing that is caught up, if a person has been deprived of sleep.
You will probably have noticed that alarm clocks have some how been incorporated into your dreams as fire alarms, church bells and the like. It was thought by some that individual dreams may only last seconds or minutes and that our mind can react on a different time scale to reality. It has, for instance, been found that if you make a loud noise near someone such as fire off a toy cap gun. It may wake them up but they will also incorporate the gun into the dream and will feel that they have been dreaming of an armed siege for some time.
However others believe that dreams work on a more or less real time basis. An average dream is thought to last about 15 minutes. So maybe where we are able to incorporate sounds our psychic mind has actually managed to pick up the noise that will wake us and incorporate it in advance.
Each of us dreams about 2 hours a night and with practise these dreams can be recalled. We learnt to dream before we developed language so that much of dream interpretation is about symbols. Some of the symbols have been part of our symbolic language for thousands of years. Birds for instance were seen as messengers, and just as pigeons have been used to carry messages, a bird in a dream in said to represent a message. Much of the symbolism is based on archetype images from mythology. A red rose in a dream can be a symbol of love and passion, something roses have been associated for hundreds of years, Mobile phones which indicate communication problems in a dream is not so ingrained in our collective unconscious. There is a theory that just as we have inherited our eye colouring and our facial characteristics from our parents and ancestors, so to may we have inherited ingrained dream symbolism.
Sometimes our dreams our euphemism ie if we are painting a room in a dream, it can mean we are trying to put on a coat of paint on a relationship that is going stale, but even Freud (one of the main exponents of dreams having repressed sexual meanings) said “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”
In dream, analysis we use a number of methods to analyse the dream, some of the dreams are fantasies that we would like to play out in real life.
Top Tips for remembering a dream
1) leave a pencil and pen by your bed
2) Set the Alarm clock 5 minutes early
3) As Soon as you wake write down to the following items and underneath try an recall the dream elements.
DREAM
Description Describe the settings, the weather, the colours the landscape, anything you can see, buildings vehicles all these are important
Recall Relive the dream, try and walk yourself through the dream, what happened next, what happened after that.
Emotions Emotionally describe what were you feeling, what were others feeling, what was going on and did your emotions change as it went on,
Animals What and who were around, animals, humans, were they known to you did they approach you, chase you
Movement What were you doing in the dream where were you moving from and moving to, were you in a car, climbing stairs, flying a plane, were other people, animals moving.
Putting the elements of the story down will help you recreate the story, in future articles we can look at different areas of the dreams and what they mean. Please do write in and we will look at some of your dreams in future issues,
Dream 1
I have been married for six months and I dreamt I was in the kitchen cutting the onions and I notice I have lost my wedding ring. I also had this dream but instead of cutting onions, I was cleaning the lounge. My Husband finds the rings and says “it’s the ring of confidence.”
Answer
This dream is essentially about your insecurity following the demise of the honeymoon phase of the marriage, which is jut giving way to more mundane aspects of domestic life. You may also fear losing your husband but in this dream you are being told not to worry but be confident with your new relationship.
Dream 2
I dreamt I was in a room and a Piano was playing by itself but for some reason it was out of tune, but I then went to it and retuned it though I don’t know how to, my husband walked in sat down and played the piano properly though he can’t play a piano in real life.
Answer
A piano out of tune in a dream indicates discordance within the relationship. The fact that both you and your husband are able to resolve the tuneless piano means that you will over come any temporary relationship issues that you may be going through.
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