About the meaning of dreams

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

My attempt to open the veil of secrecy over our dreams.

I have not yet met a person in my life who would be completely indifferent to dreams. As a psychotherapist, I am very interested in the phenomenon of dreams. During my life, I have had absolutely amazing dreams and have read a lot of literature on this topic. Oddly enough, nothing I read contained an acceptable classification of dreams for me, reflecting their similarities and differences. Then I decided to draw up my own classification of dreams, which I want to present to your attention. In my classification, light dreams come first, as the most intelligent and cognitive; then spiritual, as less intelligent and cognitive; then mental, and, at the very end, physical or bodily.

Based on the foregoing, dreams are:

- light;

- spiritual;

- sincere;

- physical.

Usually elements of all four categories are combined with each other, but one of them is dominant.

Light dreams are rare for the average person. All elements of their script usually carry a cosmogonic meaning that reveals some divine aspect of a person's life as a person, society, planet or even the universe. These dreams are perceived by a person as amazing, sincere, filled with love, and, most importantly, as bringing knowledge. Perhaps the most important thing is that these dreams are capable of carrying knowledge to a sleeping person. In dreams of light, the great secrets of life are revealed to him. Naturally, a person, waking up after such a dream, feels deeply transformed. Sometimes it seems to him that during sleep he lived a whole life. A person becomes wiser in the aspect that the dream revealed and showed him. In addition, I will note five more important signs of light dreams. The first of them is that during such a dream a person often hears melodies of amazing beauty. They can be quiet or loud, they can be sung by a choir or just a voice. A person in a dream can sing along with a voice or listen to it from the side. Often the voice sings a song, that is, a melody with rhymes. Their words carry a deep meaning, glorify life on Earth, the triumph of light and love, beauty, etc. Sometimes the voice is combined with the image of bright light, or the voice itself carries the light, or is born from the light - different options are possible. Sometimes the sleeping person sees angels, God, his deceased relatives, and communicates with them. The second sign is the property of the scenery of the dream. Dreams of light unfold in wonderful temples, amazing cities, forests, on the seashore. The whole atmosphere of sleep carries sublime forms, alluring mystery, sincerity and luminosity. The third sign is the absence of symbolism as such in these dreams. The content of the dream, that is, the knowledge that it carries, is understandable to the sleeper. After awakening, a person remembers all the smallest details of the dream, the meaning of the knowledge that he received, and immediately becomes a wiser and more enlightened person. The fourth sign is the possible presence in these dreams of "talking objects", talking animals and "living things". Their obligatory property is the ability to understand and (or) communicate telepathically with the actors of the dream. There may also be the property of instantaneous movement of the sleeping person in the space of sleep (teleportation), and the disclosure of his unique abilities - clairvoyance, clairaudience, passing through solid objects, travel to other planets, travel to different eras, and creative creativity (the ability of the sleeping person to create living from non-living or cure diseases instantly). The fifth sign is that the knowledge that the dream carries is perceived by the sleeper completely and very quickly (as insight). In other words, the sleeper does not go through the learning process (gradual assimilation of the material), but simply takes and builds knowledge into himself. This also includes dreams in which a screen is seen emerging from a wall or from a blue sky. This screen is a portal to other divine realities. On the screen, the sleeper can see the chronicle of his whole life up to the current moment, and other amazing things that I will not mention. It is clear that in order to see such a dream, a person must do deep inner work on himself.

Spiritual dreams contain other important elements. The first of them is the property of improving the character of the sleeper from time to time (from sleep to sleep) in a certain skill. Of course, by honing a skill, a person's character becomes more harmonious and more resilient. A skill can be construction, the art of painting, singing, and even flying. For example, from the beginning, a person in a dream flies low above the ground, then learns to gain altitude and fly on a chair, and then acquires the skills of performing various turns. Any skill that is honed by the character in a dream is necessary for him to gain mental flexibility, patience, release from straightforwardness and inertia. In general, there can be a huge number of skills, but they all carry the task of progressive human development. The scenery of such dreams is usually close to earthly ones, which have already become familiar to a person during his life. This is the second element. In spiritual dreams, a person's character works out models of a more perfect response in communication with other people, animals, and nature. They also highlight the problem areas of the character and even its regressive features. Thus, there is an improvement in the personality traits of a person. Upon awakening, a person sometimes remembers the dream dilemma, and the special way of solving it that he managed to achieve. Emotions and feelings in spiritual dreams are not as sublime and voluminous as in light dreams. This is the third distinctive element. In addition, I repeat that in spiritual dreams there is a process of learning a person's character, the formation of his progressive traits. Therefore, when describing these dreams from the inside, I use the term "character" as if I were talking about the person himself. The repetition of dream plots, as well as the similarity of dreams to each other in content, is the fourth distinctive element. The process of learning a character in such dreams can go for two, three, four and five. That is, at the exit from sleep, a person may experience not only joy and self-satisfaction, but also bewilderment, confusion, resentment, anger or fear. The result of cognition in spiritual dreams does not come by itself, but only thanks to the inner work of the character of the sleeping person. The fifth element of such dreams is their symbolism. Sleep symbols can be unraveled by a person in a dream, or they may remain incomprehensible after waking up. It also happens that the sleeper revealed in a dream the meaning and meaning of some part of the symbols, but neither during sleep, nor after, could not solve his main dilemma. The sixth element is the inaccuracy of the reproduction of the spiritual dream after awakening by the person himself. This is due to the imperfection of the character traits of the sleeper, since their contradictions create too wide a range of options for interpreting sleep. Nightmares are classified as "A" or "C" spiritual dreams. That is, this is the injection into the psyche of poorly digested and shocking information received during wakefulness for study. A nightmare is an attempt by the psyche to digest uncomfortable and frightening impressions of a person. If you do not "run" from them, then nightmares will pass - the psyche will digest them. By the way, what is a nightmare for one person may not be a nightmare for another.

Mental dreams differ from the previous two types of dreams in their absurdity, fragmentation, incomprehensibility and absurdity. Sometimes it seems that only a madman can see such dreams, since their content carries chaos, routine, tension and discomfort for the sleeper. It is extremely difficult to understand the meaning of such dreams, and they are often hardly remembered. Patients describe such dreams as follows: "I dreamed of some kind of nonsense."

There is another type of dreams - physical dreams. They are strong, deep, and dreamless. They say about such dreams: "slept like a baby" or "slept like a murdered one." The presence of such dreams usually indicates an excessive overload of the physical or mental component of a person. The task (meaning) of physical dreams is to restore the missing energy reserves. These reserves are replenished from the "higher levels", that is, from the thinner layers in a person. Prophetic dreams can refer to both light dreams and spiritual dreams. If in a dream there were symbols, the meaning of which the person understood or almost understood after awakening, it was a spiritual dream. If knowledge in a dream was given in the form of illumination, and was understood immediately, then it was a light dream. Deciphering misunderstood symbols of sleep is very difficult, therefore, most often they remain unsolved, or can be deciphered in further dreams, when a person is ripe before that.

I considered all four categories of dreams from the point of view of their "normality" for a person, that is, I did not describe the types of dreams that arise under the influence of alcohol, drugs and psychotropic drugs, as well as the dreams of mentally ill people.

Psychotherapists, psychologists and, to some extent, psychiatrists work most often with the spiritual (to a greater extent), and with the mental (to a much lesser extent) dreams of their patients.

Kaminskaia Elizaveta Viktorovna psychotherapist.