Why Do We Dream: Meaning Of Symbols

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Annu Jangra
May 09, 2019   •  40 views

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
Dreams are stories that brain tells during sleep. They are collection of clips , images, feelings and memories that involuntarily occur during the sleep. Humans typically have multiple dreams per night that grow longer as sleep dreams to a close. It's hypothesized that everyone dreams , but a small population reports that they never remember experiencing dreams.

Dreams typically involves elements from waking lives- like known people or familiar locations - but they often take fantastical feel. And in dreams we saw those things which symbolizes about our dreams. According to psychology our dreams occurs due to our unconscious desires. Our unconscious desires in dreams comes in the form of different things, objects, animals, etc. all these things symbolizes our hidden desires.

There are few symbols like:

  • Dream of Abacus refers to your outdated views. You have an old fashion perspective on certain issues.

  • Dream of Academy Award indicates that you need to add some glamour into your life.

  • Dream of Beg it indicates your unhappiness and dissatisfaction with your current waking situations. You are afraid to accept help or do not want to admit that you need help.

  • Dream of Black light in your dreams means that you are not seeing things that are happening around you. You are turning a blind eye and refusing to see truth.

  • Dream of Jacket represent the image that you want to present and project to the world. Alertnatively, it symbolizes your protective and defensive persona. You tend to distant your feeling and as a result , you may isolate yourself.

  • Dream of Mad dog suggests that you are being verbally attacked by those you thought were your friends and the dream in which you kill a mad dog indicates that you will overcome the adverse options of others.

  • Dream of Moon represent some hidden mysterious aspects of yourself.

  • Dream of Sun symbolizes peace of mind, enlightment, tranquility, fortune, good will, and insight.

  • Dream of Waterfall symbolizes of letting go. You are releasing all those pent up emotion and negative feelings. Alternatively the dreams represents your goals and desires.

There are so many other symbols which shows are hidden desires and also help us to direct. Few people remember about the dreams but some not. Some feel their dreams as reality and some are not aware.

Still researchers are researching on the content and purpose of dreams. But dream interpretation is the attempts at drawing meaning from dreams and searching for an underlying message.

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