I Saw a Dream Last Night. Can You Tell Me What It Means?

By Okan Anter

In 1977, while sitting in a large lecture hall at the University of Illinois I had my first panic attack. I remember just sitting there in the middle of the lecture and all of a sudden this fear came on me out of no where. I did not have a thought, I was not taking a test, it was not a stressful situation. I was just listening to the lecture and I had to run out. I was in panic. I did not understand what was happening. After a week of such incidences I decided it was time to see a psychologist. That is when I started to write my dreams down and the beginning of my journey to understand who I am, how my dreams work started. I have been interpreting dreams ever since.

I bet you, you don't know a lot of people who say "I know how to interpret my dream. I have been practicing a long time." That is because our fundamental relationship to dreams is to forget about them. Dreams are easy to forget. As a matter of fact you will forget most of them by the time you finish your fist cup of coffee.

Scientists know very little about dreams. Not much can be said about them until you start talking to psychologists especially those Freudians. Gestalt therapist can also tell you a lot about dreams. But no one knows how all those images are made up and presented. How our brain is capable of giving us imagery that in real life we would never see. It is quite a bit of magic.

I believe our dreams are about what has not been completed in the past. Here is what I mean: You have a dream, it is vivid and full of emotion. This dream is telling you that you did not pay attention to something you thought about or your felt or something you are not completing something that you are dealing with in your life. If you learn to interpret your dreams you will have the opportunity, first to know what is not completed yet and second you will get in to action to complete that which is not.

I said that most of us tend to forget our dreams very shortly after we see them, but there are those dreams that come up over and over again and there are those which are so charged with emotion and imagery that we get very curious and start to inquire. The first thing we do is, we go to friends and family and ask them about our dreams. If we are not satisfied we start reading and googling. All of a sudden these things called "Dream Dictionaries" show up. Please do not believe what you read in these "dictionaries." If you see a dog in your dream and I see a dog in mine, these do not mean the same thing to you and me.

Learn to interpret your dreams. You will have the opportunity to complete the past and have insight to how your mind operates. - 30309

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