I woke up with a start this morning as I had had an intense stress dream. I dreamed that I was stuck inside a clothing store and it had begun to rain heavily outside. I couldn’t get out of the store and I had to find a way to escape.
Dreams can be a way for our subconscious to work through the stresses of our daily lives and they can signal what we are struggling with in life.
I also like to look at dreams from a different perspective. Many years ago I took a psychology class and my professor taught us how to take a dream and analyze it from a Jungian perspective. Carl Jung was a famous psychologist who found analytical psychology.
Imagine that you have a dream and in it you see yourself walking toward a desk and you start placing heavy books onto the desk. In looking at the dream from a Jungian perspective, imagine that you’re the desk or the books in the dream.
Maybe you feel like you have a heavy weight on you and you’re struggling to find a way to escape the burdens you’re carrying. I also find a Jungian perspective in interpreting dreams to be helpful when there are multiple people in my dreams. If I can imagine that the other people I’m dreaming about are different aspects of my personality, I can have a different perspective of what I might be struggling with in my life.
Our subconscious mind is still working while we sleep. The good news is that we can use our dreams to help us have more insight into what fears and problems we might not want to admit to when we’re awake.
And if we flip the meaning of dreams, we can also dream of a new life or a better tomorrow.
Dreams and the act of dreaming are tied to hope.
When we look at our dreams, they allow us to reach for what we do not have today.
In my family, I was often told as a kid that I wouldn’t succeed as a writer. Family members put me down, and I struggled with trying to find a way to overcome such negativity.
The best way forward for me was to take a leap into the unknown.
What is your secret dream?
Instead of allowing others to control you or put you down, take some small steps each day to achieve your dream.
Today that might simply be saying your dream out loud or sharing it with a trusted friend. Tomorrow you might contact someone who has achieved your dream and you can talk with that person and ask for some advice. Then next week you can devise a plan and start working toward achieving your dream.
The impossible can become possible if you work toward it.
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