these dreams

I came to this site while searching the internet for dream interpretation months ago. It instantly became my most visited site. You see, I have always been fascinated with matters about our abstract selves. I would have taken up AB Psychology when I was in college but due to the course’s unavailability in my university, I wasn’t able to. However, it didn’t stop me from searching for more theories, facts and studies about the subject.

Lately I’ve been interested in dream interpretation. I think most of us is interested about knowing what our dreams meant. I’ve read from a book that a person would have at least five dreams every night. People may say they didn’t dream the night before but in fact, they did. (I remember counting my dreams before and it’s true that we have five dreams every night.) It’s just hard to remember dreams. Sometimes when we wake up from a dream and we try to remember what it is, we almost can’t. It’s like keeping water in the palm of your hands; the more you try to think of it, the more the details fade.

From Wikipedia:

Dream is a word used to describe the subconscious experience of a sequence of images, sounds, ideas, emotions, or other sensations usually during sleep, especially REM sleep.

Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung identify dreams as an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. They also assert together that the unconscious is the dominant force of the dream, and in dreams it conveys its own mental activity to the perceptive faculty. While Freud felt that there was an active censorship against the unconscious even during sleep, Jung argued that the dream's bizarre quality is an efficient language, comparable to poetry and uniquely capable of revealing the underlying meaning.

Fritz Perls presented his theory of dreams as part of the holistic nature of Gestalt therapy. Dreams are seen as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored, rejected or suppressed. Jung argued that one could consider every person in the dream to represent an aspect of the dreamer, which he called the subjective approach to dreams. Perls expanded this point of view to say that even inanimate objects in the dream may represent aspects of the dreamer. The dreamer may therefore be asked to imagine being an object in the dream and to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreamer's personality.

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I tried to keep track of my dreams these past few days and I managed to remember the objects in those dreams of mine and had them checked through the site I mentioned in the first paragraph of this post. Here are the interpretations:

Lock
To see a lock in your dream signifies your inability to get what you want or being kept out. Perhaps an aspect of yourself is locked up inside and needs to be expressed.

Key
To see a key in your dream symbolizes opportunities, access, control, secrets, or responsibilities. You may be locking away your own inner feelings and emotions.

Towel
To see or use a towel in your dream, suggests that you need to deal with your emotions in order to move forward in your life. You need to find some sort of a resolution. Alternatively, it represents completion, a fresh start and new transition.

Dessert
To see a tasty dessert in your dream represents indulgence, celebration, reward, or temptation. You are enjoying the good things in life.

IceCream
To see or eat ice cream in your dream denotes pleasure and satisfaction with your life. It is also an indicative of good luck and success in love.

Tea
To dream that you are making or drinking tea represents satisfaction and contentment in your life. You are taking your time with regards to some relationship or situation.

As you may have noticed, it seems that this past week, I have this so called “suppressed feelings” and it has to come out. I was actually confused and curious as to what this suppressed feeling might be. It was only this morning that I found out what it was. It’s annoyance for a friend. Well, I need to find a resolution for this as what my dreams suggested.

On the other hand, it seems that I am enjoying life at the moment, being satisfied and all that. I think it’s because the previous problem I had has now been resolved and of course, the new love life.

I suggest you try to check your dreams too. You know, when you’re confused and at a loss, dreams sometimes give us answers, or at least lead us to it. What we can’t do in our conscious state of mind, we sometimes release in our dreams and it gives us a picture of what we wanted to do, need to do, should do, could do, and at times, will do. Interpreting our dreams can be a way of knowing yourself deeper.

Dream on!