Dreams: Subconscious messages

Dreams: Subconscious messages

Designed and Illustrated by Chirag Shetty

Aizooli Publications

Copyright © 2022 by Chirag Shetty

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First edition: October 2022

designed and illustrated by Chirag Shetty

Theory of Sigmund Freud

dreams what are ?

Not every dream is a manifestation of your subconscious, take for example, that heated dream you had the other night, well its only purpose was to confuse you and leave you wanting. The dreams that are manifestations of your subconscious will leave you feeling as if a part of you is missing, that you need to be doing something spectacular, or fulfill a life dream you have been too terrified to try.

theory theory theory

This theory proposes that dreams are a byproduct of the dreamer’s physical and mental state during sleep, distinguishes between manifest and latent dream, and points out that the dream-work proposed by Freud is actually a result of information processing and self-organization in the sleeping brain. Although individuals may not be fully aware of their unconscious thoughts, these underlying concepts affect personality and behavior. Freud’s initial ideas on dreams materialized from his own dream about a patient that he was concerned about; subsequently, he formed his dream theory.

symbols...

The images that you create in your dreams are your natural way of connecting what is happening in your inner world of imagination to your outer world of realities. These connections from your inner world to your outer world are also known as symbols. They can identify where you can take meaningful action in waking life.

The most powerful way to understand what your dreams mean is to work with the symbolic language and imagery that you create every night. Although a symbol is often considered just to be a simple representation of something else, it is actually a connection that enables you to explain your outer world.

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...TRAPPED

Having a dream about being trapped can be a frightening experience! Many times these dreams will manifest when we are feeling stuck or are not sure of what we should do next in our lives.

It could imply that you are caught in a difficult, restrictive, or even dangerous situation. Such dreams may be triggered by stress and frustrations in your waking life, and your subconscious mind is working on ways to help you feel free and unstuck.

Reflecting your real life inability to escape or make the right choice.

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A dream about animals is almost always about an aspect of yourself. Animals are so easy to link to a personality trait or emotion, for example you might link a snake to someone who’s deceptive or dishonest. You might link a lion to someone who’s strong, courageous and powerful. If you see a wild animal in a dream, it means that you will face many fears.

You are often one step away from achieving your wishes.So to dream about a specific animal is usually fairly easy to analyse.

Sometimes the actual animals we dream about can just mean we’re thinking about our own behaviour in the waking world.

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...DIE

Death dreams are fairly personal like most dreams, and so you can’t really put a label on what a death dream means.

A dream about death can actually just mean you’re accepting that you’re changing into someone else. When we change, it’s said that we die a ‘small death’, meaning a part of who we were dies and makes way for the person we’re becoming.

What you can say is that they’re rarely good. It’s almost always considered bad or negative to die, unless you get into higher levels of thinking where you realise that death is merely the next stage of life, the next step.

This just means you’re changing and your brain and body are trying to make sense of it, and sometimes that just appears in the form of dreaming about dying!

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...FIND AN EMPTY ROOM

Empty rooms in dreams are usually just a space that your brain hasn’t filled. It can also be in reference to a part of your life where you just think or feel nothing’s changing. For example you think nothing’s going on at work in terms of career progression.

Empty rooms mean a vacant or unoccupied place which indicates loneliness. Dreaming about an empty room is an indication of what you are experiencing in your own internal space. Also, it indicates that you are in need of someone to guide you.

If the feeling of the dream is excitement however, it can mean that you’re ready to find something new and exciting in your life.

...Running in place

This is all about control. To dream about being unable to move and running in place shows that you’re not feeling in control of your life. You feel like no matter how much effort you’re putting into things, nothing’s really changing . This is actually a really common dream, because most people don’t really change. When they eventually do try and change they set goals in the wrong way, so nothing happens. This means that lots of people have this dream of being frozen on the spot, trying to run but just sliding around on the ground. Consider what your goals are, what you want in life, and what you’re doing to try and get there.

Often we don’t even know what’s chasing us in these types of dreams. Being chased by something or someone is such a common dream that there are entire books and websites about it.

Usually it’s not anything in particular but just the ‘feeling’ like you’re being chased, and so you run and run. In the dream of course, running and ‘pushing’ your leg muscles to run faster does nothing but slow you down, just like trying to fly.

...being chased

...DROWNING

To dream about drowning means that you’re worried about losing control. You’ve probably noticed that a lot of these dream meanings are about either freedom, control or fears. These are the forces which guide our dreams, those and also love.

Dreaming about drowning means you’re feeling not in control, overwhelmed and helpless. Consider which areas of your life need fixing and then do it!

Falling dreams are super common among

people of all ages. This is because much like being attacked or injured, we’re wired to avoid these dangers. It’s said that we sometimes dream about really bad things just so that your brain is used to the experience and can deal with it that much easier if it actually happened.

Falling dreams usually mean that you’re not in

control of what’s going on, and you’re lacking leadership in your life. Pay attention to this if you’re always having dreams about falling, as it can mean that you’re feeling hopeless and even depressed.

...falling

...Missing a bus or a flight

Missing a flight or a ride is something that annoys you. When you miss a flight you’re panicking, stressed and you feel like you’ve not got any control over the situation. This reflected the meaning perfectly, it’s all about control.

If you dream about missing a flight it means that you don’t feel like you’re in control of your life or a given situation. It’s good for this one to remember that there are some things you just can’t control, and you shouldn’t stress about.

...Wetting yourself

This is one of two things. Dreaming about wetting yourself can mean that you’re actually peeing. It’s very common to dream about wetting yourself when you’re weeing in real life, and it’s more common earlier in life. Earlier in life, we more commonly wet the bed and associate it with being bad or embarrassing.

Our brains react to this by inserting the feeling into a dream to sort of warn you and say ‘stop that!’. The other reason we might dream about weeing the bed or weeing in general, is if we feel like we’re under pressure, or being judged.

embrace your dreams

Our nights would likely be more peaceful and sleep more restful if we didn’t dream. But our imaginations would not be as rich, or our brains as nimble. We would not know ourselves so well or be able to tap into our true desires.

Most dream meaning you can work out yourself, just think about the symbols in the dream and what they mean to you in waking life, and what feelings or other words they bring to mind and then connect them. Work out what your brain is telling you. You can find out a lot about the way you think and view the world by analysing your dreams.

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What do your dreams mean? It is thought that by reading and interpreting your dreams you can discover things about yourself, such as what your brain is trying to tell you, or what you really want in life. It can also be used to tell you what you’re afraid of and what you truly desire. The meaning of your dreams is really what you interpret it to be.