Importance of Dreams and their Representations

Dreams are all those symbolic and unconscious expressions that a person can have in the state of rest, when the cerebral tasks that this organ normally performs in a state of alert decrease and relax.

Associated with experiences or suffering

Scientists from various areas and specialists in the subject consider that the "translations" that dreams can have are directly related to the experiences, sufferings, fears, joys and worries that the person has, although all of them are unconscious, or not recognized at a conscious level.

This is why dreams always have a very important place in the area of ​​a person's psychoanalysis, since many Sometimes it is through him that many elements of the person can be deciphered that normally at a conscious level are not so visible.

Generally, events or stories take place in dreams that may or may not make sense.

Symbolic characters, unknown or fictitious spaces, unreal situations, such as a person flying or moving at a different pace than normal, etc. may appear.

The act of dreaming or having dreams while sleeping is spontaneous, so it cannot be generated in any way. conscious nor can it be stopped since the person when experiencing it is not in his total control of the awareness if not, on the contrary, it enters an unconscious state.

The value resides in the fact that all the unconscious representations that a person has through them will have some meaning that, in most cases, is not very easy to decipher because their symbology it is indirect.

It is scientifically considered that situations experienced during the day or throughout life (traumatic or not), fears or frustrations, joys and emotions, hopes, expectations, are all elements that appear represented in the dreams.

Identifying, remembering and understanding what we dream can help us solve important problems or simple unresolved questions in life.

Thus, when working with these dreams, the analyst can decipher many more elements of the personality of an individual than he would normally know from his conscious expressions.

This is so because it is believed that normally what a person unconsciously hides is what they give the most importance to.

So we must say that what we dream of recurringly may want to tell us something, warn us about some issue to which in conscious state we do not pay attention to it, even more so, we block it, but when it appears in our dreams it becomes something extremely relevant.

Although sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we cannot remember what we have dreamed of, it is important that when we do We can do it, let's sit down for a moment to reflect on that dream, what it may be trying to tell us.

We could say without fear of exaggerating that we must learn from our dreams and take them into account because it is the way through which our subconscious can wanting to tell us something important for our life, from conflicts or problems that mark us forever, to little things in everyday life that have not yet been results.

By the way, if we are not able to interpret them but they impress us in such a way that we keep thinking about them, it is recommended that we visit a professional psychology that can help us in this task, and to feel lighter after having done it, because by passing them to the conscious we will be taking charge and taking into account consideration the notice that appears in the dream, especially those that turn out to be recurring.

For their part, nightmares, as we call those unpleasant dreams that generate fear and paralysis in us, are the most complete representation of our fears and our frustrations.

If we start to break them down, we will surely understand clearly and without a doubt the weak and most conflictive points in our lives, which cry out for resolution.

Of course, interpreting a dream correctly will not solve the conflict and it will completely disappear from our lives, there is no magic in this, far from it, now, the fact of identifying what that dream means to us will allow us to move on the right path towards the resolution of the problem. conflict that this dream can represent for us and stop invading and disturbing us every time it appears, if it is a dream recurrent.

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