Even though Freud and Jung disagreed on many points, one thing that emerges from twentieth century psychoanalysis is the fact that dreams go beyond their individual dreamers and often show patterns that are common to all cultures. Indeed, dreams are only partially rooted in consciousness and tend to reveal deeper parts of the human psyche.
One of the eldest books on dreams - the Oneirocritica «The Interpretation of dreams” - was written by the Greek thinker Artemidorus in the second century AD. In it he distinguishes between dreams that forecast the future and “allegorical dreams” that need interpretation.
Unlike Freud that reduced dreams to repression of infantile sexual experiences, Jung stated that besides these personal dreams, there was an unconscious collective dream, the very backbone of imagination. He saw then in dreams the manifestation of a certain truth that went beyond the dreamer, as if planted by a higher consciousness that he calls “the soul”.
Now you take the floor: what do you associate with dreams?
Life is that desire to live
which can connect tomorrow…
and gives courage to fight yesterday…
Neither do you need Consolance, nor support
I believe that if you don’t give up,
You can easily climb the stairs…
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Judging by my own experience there two kinds of night dreams.
The first ones are generated by our subconsciousness to free the brain from troubled thoughts.
Another kind of dreams is prophetic dreams which predict the future and help to find a right solution concerning a certain situation in real life.
Dreams are encoded messages from the Universe and the receiver of them is our mind. And if you pay attention to your dreams you will get the answers to your questions from the depths of the Universe.
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hello jaziquita,
i too have that consciousness whilst dreaming at times. i sought of fall in and out of it. what can help you to recognise that you are dreaming and then take some authority or control in your dream, is to somehow whilst dreaming, think “i need to look at my hands” that is what i told myself to do before i went to sleep, and then in my dream i managed to look at my hands and as soon as i did i knew that i was was dreaming and i could actually contol what i did afterwards-once realising i was dreaming. then it faded again ……but you can have some level of control…or at least so it seems.
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Thank you savita,how sweet of you.Kathleen i found the meaning to my dream already.One of my ex best freinds had the same dream same day.We haven’t been contact for almost a year,but out of nowhere i met him online,yes out of nowhere and next minute he starts ranting his dream to me saying he is scared and all those stuff.And can u believe he had the same dream i had mentioned before??I was so shocked,but u know what he said that he was almost eaten by snakes a huge one and he said he was crying for help to me.And he told me that i laughed at him first saying why are you screaming don’t u have any hope boy?Bow down to me and pray and i will help you.And i gave him hope and he could breath a little he said.I was shocked by his version of dream.Actually this guy had hurt me coz he was so full of pride and ego and hrut me so badly than my heart got broken badly.My heart cursed him so badly that ,he has been suffering ever since.He was good looking but he was from very bad family background but he was my best freind .I did everything to give him hope when he had nothing as friend.Due to which he built his life so high and he always dedicates his work for me but he had so much pride and ego about his look.Maybe thats why the peacock i saw in my dream his pride.he was hoplessly in love with me but he denied infornt of everyone coz you i wasnt that pretty and all pretty gal are suppsoe to be.He humilated me many times by denying it althought he secretly gave me so many love poems and many gifts and express his love but i knew that i wasn;t rpetty enough for him .But the only reason i had chose to love him was he had no hope,nothing to lean on,but he was so full of pride that he repeatedly denyed nd he even blamed me that i was crazy about him when infact he was the one.i even humilatedin a party where i had to go out running ifnront of many people.I was hurt very badly.I really cried mayb my heart cried.That was the time i had to seek God,and ask coz that was the punsihment i got for giving hope to hopless?The day i left him he said all his relatives aunts died one by one,some were killed by gun shot some this and that all his aunts died he said.He is almost half crazy,but in love with me dunno why.i dunno what God did but he told me many time that God has always shown in dream scolded him syaing* why did you hurt my daughter,say that it was you who was crazy and and it was your fault.he was so scared by the haunting dream of God who showed him that he will be dragged on skin and he will let his skin be peeled off and God will let him eat his own skin.So he started seraching for me after 4 years.M getting late for class i tell u the rest part later. frens
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Dreams are the straight connection to our true self and to our intuition, but also to te inner self of other peole. One of my friends once had to go to the asylum for a few weeks because she could not deal with what had happened to her during her childhood and she did not want to tell us what had happened. One night I dreamed about what had happened to her and when I told her the dream, she was so shocked, because it was axactly what had happened to her. She has never before talked to anybody about it. I sometimes have dreams in which I am in full consciousness, although it is difficult to stay concentrated and it only lasts for a short while Does anybody know why that happens?
I am just loving to read all the comments, so interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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Dreams I feel are a symbol of world. We see world around us and feel and think it is real. Logic also says so. In dreams we see and feel and for the moment think it is real. The logic at that time aslo says so. But when we open our eyes and wake up all is opposite of real. Life is also a dream, everything is true till our eyes are closed. Death may be a form of awakening. When everything changes drastically. Body turns lifeless and all relationships end, change is irreversible. May be dreams are associated more with life than anything else.
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I sincerely hope I will not trivialise everything but I have so often watched my dog dream, the feet trot along, ears twitch, the tail wags and there is usually a woof or two.
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The beautiful dreams that I had ,were that dreams about romantik experiences,wenn the soul was comming together with the soul of a masculin person like with my first love when I was sixteen and I feelt ,we wallked hand in hand and the summer rain drops were falling down on our hands:the warmness of our blod and the fresh rain drops were two difrent sesitive sensations that I fellt on the same fisically areal,in my example the hands .This sensation made me to be sure that this art of dreams are reality,just in other dimension.
I had today a dream that make me frighthing!I `ve dremt that I choused a black scarf and I put it on my hear,and a damen rock although a black one.In my culture we put black clothes for one year wen somebody from our family will die!
I hope everything will be good!God help us!!!
I belive in dreams, and I trye to anderstand what they want to tell me.
Love
Mirela(the woman in elevator)
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Hope,
You write so beautifully! I could just go on reading paragraph after paragraph of your exquisite, free-flowing poetic-prose. Please write more…and more.
And thanks, Sido66 for your comments. I know precisely what you mean. it comes and it goes - sometimes there is an overwhelming flood of synchronicity in my life, and sometimes it dries up to just a trickle. Sometimes these “coincidences” that are not coincidences are so profound - so truly impossible - that they shock me and rock me to the very core of my being. This is when I know that I am closest to God/The Goddess/The Gods. I am going through one of these periods right now: I think something - a pressing question pops into my head - and so I think, let me consult God on the matter, so I open the Bible at random, point with my eyes closed, and the verse I land on will so precisely address the issue - unmistakably direct, often repeating some of the words I used in formulating my question - that it shocks me like a lightening-bolt in the chest. Or other things happen: I suddenly think, Oh, I have to send this line from this song to my friend, and so I send a text, only to get a text back, a few minutes later that says: “How did you know what I was thinking?” Well, I didn’t! At least not on any conscious level. I mean, it isn’t intentional. It just sort of happens…and I let it happen. I don’t try to curtail it or hold it back in fear of what someone else might think or how they might react; I just go with what my intuition tells me to say or do in the moment.
I read “Synchronity” by Carl Jung, but it was also a very difficult read for me. I wonder if anyone else has any recommendations for any great books on the subject of synchronicity. Not that I really need to “understand” it. In fact, the more I try to grasp it with my intellect or make sense of it, the more it recedes. And the more I just go with the flow of it, the more it grows, like river threatening to overflow its banks and inundate the whole of my life, possibly obliterate all sense of logic and linear reason.
Sometimes I like to think of it simply as a nice warm blanket that God sometimes wraps around me - sometimes tightly, sometimes loosely - it comforts me and lets me know he/she is there, actively present in my life.
Love,
Savita
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dreams..my favorite, are the ones i have when i’m awake. sleeping, for me, i think my dreams are my thoughts,worries, things that scare me. reoccuring dreams however are interesting to me. to dream the same dream occasionally for years. constant thought? worry? yea, i still love the dreams i have when i’m AWAKE…
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Thank you kathleen,please do ponder and let me know what it means too.You see dreams for me is multi dimensional whenver papa or God gives me dream he gives me in such a way that befits many thing at one time.Sadly i have also seen dreams where the water broke in from nowhere it was like all the helll break lose,it was few mnths back all the water of the world was washing the land like tsunami at the maximum form,and all human running here and there,sea creature everywhere.And more scarry was the part where everyone was hypnotized by someone either surrender or die type and i was hiding isnide a room a broken room running from the water running from some evil form dunno what or who.It was scarry.I am scared for earth sometime.My dreams are like i should know at what time it will be fulfilled usually i get for the nex day but for some i get for few months ahead or 5 years ahead or 10 years or sometime few weeks,but usually i know ,coz now i am use to it.Actually serpent and i go long way,i mean i feel we are always fighting but i can only hurt him coz am not strong like jesus or papa.
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In my belief,dreams are our thoughts and fantasies that we want to be reality.Everyone has an opinion for every issue in their life and dreams helps us to let these theories to be manifested…Many times dreams affects peoples life because they believe that there is some kind of connection between dreams and reality.Every kind of dream has a different meaning in real life.Dreams warn us about some circumstances that is going to be done in our real life…
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Hope,
That is a phenomenal dream. I definitely think it has meaning. I’m going to ponder on it as well (if you don’t mind that is).
Kathleen xxoo
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Hi Paulo and Everyone,
Many years ago now I emailed Paulo with a poem and he said “Just follow your dreams.” And I have been doing just that.
I am in the middle of trying to put together a power point presentation on dreams. My dreams have shown me that I should do this. {As a younger man I tried to avoid having dreams, because mine were so very vivid.}
In the books by Castaneda people either have a predilection for dreaming or stalking and I guess from the responses here; we have quite a lot of dreamers in the Blog.
In various schools of thought the everyday “reality” is just the dream of the incarnating dreamer within. Or in other terms it is the dream of the Soul within. The trick is to wake up in the dream both whilst asleep and “awake”. Then one can dream true to the fate of the Soul rather than trying to force life. That way we flow with rather than against our fate.
By recording dreams as they happen (I keep a notebook by my bed) one can get a feel whether a dream is a “filing” dream (tidying up the day), a connection with a thought form on the Astral plane (these can have racial and historical forms), guidance from the Soul (these are symbolic and need unpicked) or touching something quite a lot higher (Divinity and/or mystical vision). “Breakthrough” of experience from previous life can also happen in dreams.
When one learns how to read the symbols of dreams, one can use this to interpret the symbols (omens?) happening in daily life. And then if one is really quiet one can “wake up” in the madness of the dream which is our “everyday” world.
With all my best wishes,
Alan
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I had another dream last night,it was bit confusing.I was in my school as a kid and in the sky i saw a strange thing like a vision again.A huge serpent ,i dunno if it was dragon or serpent but it was like snake for sure i mean i only saw it’s huge body almost covering half of the sky,it was as huge as sky.And it was crushing a beautiful peacock,a beautiful,if i have to say beautiful i mean really beautiful i don’t have words to describe its colors,light braight colors beautiful bright feathers.But that huge serpent was crushing that bird or peacock slowly ,as i was watching it, the serpent colied again and the bird was slowly dying it’s death,coz it couldn’t breath.The serpent was killing the peacock like a python killing it’s prey.Seeing this i called all the people,*oh what a horrible scene on the sky,see on the sky*,and all the people there ran to see the horrible scene.Just imagine seeing a beautiful creature being killed so mercilessly by a serpent.Later I thought of rescuing ,the bird so i try to bite the snake(dunno how i got into it’s tail and i could bite and hurt it to rescue the bird.But i got scared saying to myself when i realized that i could actually hurt that serpent *hey only eagle can kill that serpent, ,am i an eagle ??( i left the scene with the people,thinking to myself, fearing what if the serpent see me and attack me like the bird for bitting it’s body )and saying this i ran coz i was scared to see the scene.Dunno the meaning of this.Buti do know that peacock is a symbol of pride and snake is no less.I dunno who or what is taking too much pride that the serpent is angry and is trying to destroy it.( i dunno if it is related to a country or a person but i think according to my htought maybe country)Hmmm i still need to translate this dream later.
I woke up and again i slept,but i was scared by the dream.But in another dream,i was in this beautiful orchard,there were lines of trees,like it was in the previous dream.In the previous dream i had seen huge trees overlying the sky,and i thought i was again in the same place.But this time i was more like in a garden beautiful garden and was under a shade of a tree.Then God was at the far end of the row of trees and he was shaking the tree at the other end.But when he was shaking the tree at the end then all the trees in the rows even the tree under which i was taking the shade and was at the last end was shaking ,giving gentle breeze but i got scared and screamed*papa no,papa don’t shake it,didn;t u see the serpent on the sky before? what if it falls down on me?It will kill me*But he kept on shaking don;t know why but nothing fell on my head.
then suddenly infront of the tree under which i was sitting i saw a man bent down wearing a white cloth rather a satin cloth silky one.He didn;t show his face first,then slowly he raised his eye towards me and slowly i saw his face,i was speechless,again the same face the same holy and beautiful face.This is alawys the time why all the words in my dictionary runs out or fails to describe his face.Saying handsome beautiful and all earthly words sounds like disrespectful to describe so,with awe i watched him.He had that little long curly not exactly curly hair,and slowly in the air i saw this cross shinning cross ,i thought it was made up of some diamond or some priceless jewel ,or some shiny heavenly diamonds,it floated in the air and it went and fell just on his forheaad and he wore it like his crown and he gave that beautiful smile to me when he rose.My heart fell in love with him again.And only word came out from my mouth Jesus with a smile and a sigh.*Then i saw my own biological father digging out someone from the coffin and someone was instructing him ,you have to raise that coffin in certan perpendicular degree then this and that as if God was commanding him to do it coz only a vocie was telling him to dig that body out of that coffin.Hmm
am thinking about the dream whole day i dunno exactly what it means but i do have some ideas.
All my dreams have meaning and i know i can tranlsate it perfectly ,thats why God gives me,hmm i wonder If God shook those tres to send jesus and to rescue the bird or i dunno.But it was paradoxical dream,scary at first but so beautiful at the end,Whenever i see jeuss’ face,i just fall in love and his smile,even his smile can erase the sin i presume.
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It is strange that this morning, I get to see that the Association of the Week is on Dreams. Strange, because I have been having a few dreams that got me thoughtful, and somehow worried. So maybe, I think, that this subtle coincidence is meant to make me think my dreams through.
Dreams are like suspended in a sphere outside space AND time and all dimension, and I do sometimes like to believe that, when we sleep, our souls leave our bodies to travel around and through this sphere, and things we see, feel, do, and hear in our dreams are pretty much what our soul sees, feels, does, and hears in the sphere. It is so uncommon to us, that very often we have a very narrow understanding of the dreams language, being in reality, our soul’s language, our soul’s words to us, to send us a message.
When we wake up, we realize that the memory we have of our dreams is not really what our dreams looked and felt like, but we have this taste they leave inside of us. Prophetic dreams I think are those when the soul, travelling through the sphere, gets to see something of the past or of the futre, there where there is no time and where all tenses are alike, and translates to us this vision in terms of dreams.
However, sometimes, the soul doesn’t travel too far, and only flows through our subconscious part in the sphere… and therefore our dreams can be explained rationnally quite easily.
What about naps’ dreams? they are precise, clear, and very very strange… in my culture they are said to have no meaning at all, for the only dreams that are heaven-sent are those we make before dawn. But I still wonder, for I made fabulous dreams just having a nap…
Another thing is creative visualization, this thing that happens to us when we are falling asleep, and images bombard our mind; surprisingly, when we consciously abondon ourselves to this flow of images, we are amazed to see images we could have never been able to imagine being fully awake.
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