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ChangingMinds Blog! > Blog Archive > 27-Aug-08
Wednesday 27-August-08
Interpreting dreams
I've woken up in the middle of the night and reached for my trusty old PDA to blog my way back to the land of nod. I was in the middle of a strange dream, running down the road, trying to catch the bus and, very frustratingly, just missing it.
Dreams are often about our hopes and fears and are windows onto the subconscious and offer rare glimpses of what's going on inside the machine -- something which psychoanalysts from Freud and Jung onwards have found very useful. The problem, however, is that subconscious often appears as child-like, literal and highly symbolic, which makes interpreting dreams a rather hit and miss affair (and also good business for the psychoanalysts).
So what does running for the bus mean? And, significantly, what does not quite catching it imply?
Perhaps the bus represents a goal I am trying to achieve, such as getting a 'changing minds' book written. I've been distracted from this recently by more mundane household repairs. In a Freudian light, it could represent my mother, with the chasing as seeking her limited approval or attention.
Meaning-making from dreams is most significant in the impact of the meaning and has value in what is gained from this. Thus if I interpret the dream as short-term frustrations, it could lead to a re-focus on writing the book. If it is about my mother, then I might reflect and reframe from an adult position. Importantly, even if it is neither of these, I can still gain the same benefits. Like the lost mountaineers who found their way home using the wrong map, the outcome and benefits gained outweighs the impenetrable truth of the real meaning of the dream.
So dream on. I'm feeling drowsy now and will put away the PDA and drift away again into mysterious reverie. Sweet dreams, I hope.
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