A DREAM DICTIONARY OF FANTASY DREAMS
WHAT ARE DREAMS?
There are many theories about the role of dreams and fantasies but most agree that they are the link between your conscious mind and your unconscious. Without them we would probably emotionally overheat and never be able to cope with the complexities of life. Dreams give the brain the opportunity to explore its potential in ways that would never be possible in day to day life. Dreams and fantasies show us new ways of doing things and have helped us to scale the evolutionary ladder.
It is generally agreed that they are essential for health. Dreams are an emotional safety valve and are as important to our well being as eating and drinking, for without them our frustrations and anxieties would overwhelm us. Similarly conscious fantasy, which is in effect a superficial form of dreaming, may help to relieve the stress caused by the banality of everyday life.
Dreams and fantasies also help us to assimilate knowledge and learn. A fantasy may reveal solutions to a problem more quickly than rational thought. As has been shown, dreams certainly have been responsible for many creative ideas and inventions. In particular dreams can show us solutions to our personal dilemmas and prepare us for the future. They expose our deepest fears and signpost ways to resolve these fears.
DREAMS & EMOTIONS IN THE DICTIONARY
Dreams and fantasies express emotions, feelings and abstract ideas in the language of symbols. Symbols are a very flexible way of thinking and can mean many things to different people. For example to one person an apple may represent good health, to another it may be the brand name of their computer, another may be reminded of wholeness, another say sees it is a symbol of Eve's temptation or as the forbidden knowledge of sexuality. The truth is that just about anything can be symbolic and the meaning may have many individual slants.
Every dream and fantasy you have is unique to you but of course there are many themes that occur that other people have as well. For example the fantasy a child may have about being a Jedi Knight from Star Wars or a super hero from a comic book is in essence almost exactly the same as the fantasies children had in ancient times. Ancient Greek children may have imagined themselves as Perseus slaying the snake headed Gorgon, a Viking child would have played at being Beowulf and a Mesopotamian child may have fantasised about being Gilgamesh. If you read these stories you will see many similarities with the most popular films and stories of today. We may think that our fantasies and dreams are unique but at a primal level that correspond with fantasies that people have had for millennia.
A-Z DICTIONARY OF INTERPRETING DREAMS
If we study our dreams and fantasies we will see may symbolic stories that express the motivating forces in our life. We can work with these unconscious forces to improve our life.
There are many dreams and fantasies that we have in common but also sometimes the symbolism of the dream fantasy will be unique to you. This book will give you some simple guidelines that will help you see what is working below the surface of your consciousness and help you to understand why you are having particular dream fantasies. I explain some of the well know psychological theories about the meanings of dreams and make many common sense observations about possible interpretations however there are no final answers to what the meaning is. In the final analysis the decision about what a dream means is up to you. |
DREAM FORUM FEED
