How to decipher the hidden message of repetitive dreams

Are you one of the people who usually have repetitive dreams but you do not understand its meaning? If your answer is yes, perhaps this reading can help you.

Dream interpretation: a world to discover

The dream analysis is an important tool when you want to understand any problem of a person's current situation, since through the dreams, the brain sends clues that, knowing how to interpret them and being able to put them together, as if it were a puzzle, can lead us to understand the reason for a discomfort present in our life and of which perhaps we are not even aware or we do not finish understand.

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Recurring dreams: analyzing their characteristics

Does she often dream about a particular situation? I remember a patient who often used to dream that she felt the urgent need to go to urinate, but when looking for the toilets, they were not available, or they were dirty; other times she saw them ruined, and other times with the water overflowing and in total disrepair being impossible to use. Sometimes the urgency was so great that she still used them, but most of the time, she left wanting to. This constant repetition of her dream began to disturb him because she did not understand why they were.

Dreams that evoke images, textures, colors and flavors

Think for a moment about a dream you have had that disturbed you: Have you noticed the colors in your dreams? Has she felt smells (pleasant or unpleasant, as in the case of dirty toilets) or tastes, or perhaps she has touched something that seemed very soft or perhaps she even listened to her favorite song? ...

In dreams, in addition to our senses coming into play, our senses also play an important role. emotions, which are essential to understand the message. And this is where the key to understanding dreams is found: knowing how to understand the emotions that, between the interaction with objects or people, are awakened in our being.

What elements are present in your dream? In the case of the person of the toilets, there were several elements that, although they were not the same, were repeated: such as the urge to urinate, the toilets dirty, not being able to use them and staying with the desire, were elements that were always present, although the scene was given in different places.

Can you identify some of those elements that are repeated in your dreams? Try to do it, and if you succeed, you are on the right track in analyzing your recurring dreams. How do those elements that she has identified interact in her dreams? Let's go back to the case of the patient: she wanted to use the toilets but there was something about her, outside of herself, that prevented her (they were in poor condition).

Now, an important question: how do you feel about the interaction of those elements in your dream? Possibly it makes you feel scared, or angry or perhaps it makes you happy... The person I mention is she was frustrated to see that there was a personal need (urge to urinate) that she could not satisfy.

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Emotions and dreams

If you were able to identify your emotions and name them, the next step will be easier: Is there a situation in your current life that is causing this same emotion?

Bring the emotions of your dreams into real life, compare them with what you are currently experiencing. Do you find any similarities between what you feel in your dream and what you feel in this particular situation that you are experiencing? My patient discovered that she was going through a lot of anger with her boss, but she was unable to tell him for fear of losing her jobThis situation made her feel frustrated because "there was a personal need (to express her anger and her discomfort) that she could not satisfy." When she finally discovered the message of her dream, it did not repeat itself, because with a little help, She found how to express to her boss the situations that did not seem to her and, as far as I know, she still has her job.

Find the message that our dreams hide is not an easy tare, and maybe even need someone else's support to find its meaning, but if we take the time to look it up, the result can be very useful to our lives, because, only by knowing where exactly our shoe squeezes us, is when we will do something to fix it.