Do dreams convey a meaning? I don’t mean those day-dreaming (which I do a lot); I mean those that occur during sleep. Many a people have shared with me, instances where events were foretold in dreams. I didn’t give careful thought to dreams until recently. I discussed with my mother, when she was here with me last month, and she had many examples to cite from her life. That got me interested. I tried recollecting any dream that I could remember and I could recollect only one that occurred during 3rd year of college, which remains so fresh. Guess it was a warning for the life to follow!
In that dream, a snake chased me and I kept running. After a while, I said to myself, “I am not going to run, but going to stand up to the snake”. I could sense a dilemma (still in the dream), “What if the snake bites?” Yet, deciding against the doubt, I stopped running, turned back and stood firmly facing the snake. To my surprise, the snake stopped chasing and stood at a distance.
I shared this dream with a senior and he interpreted it as, there are going to be troubles chasing you. As long as you run, they are going to keep chasing. Stop and face them, you’ll be able to handle. (Note that the snake didn’t disappear).
As I look back, it has been true. Ever since the dream, I had a roller-coaster life. I was able to stand up, face and effectively handle whatever life threw at me, except one incident. In that particular incident, my whole family was pulled in and that brought a huge pressure on me and I, instead of fight, chose flight as a way of handling. It turned unpleasant and left a scar in us. Till today, I feel guilty (and sometimes made to feel so by others) of not being a ‘good son’. Somehow all corrective actions have been futile.
Coming back to the topic, I decided to note down dreams that come along and observe them. I want to read, ‘The Interpretation of Dreams‘ by Sigmund Freud to find out what those dreams mean. But I am not so sure I’ll be able to do read it, as few priority items have crept in suddenly. If there are any interesting dreams, I may even post them here!
joseph,
firstly thanks for dropping by my blog and you were wrong, you weren’t late in commenting, you were the only one to comment 😉
as for the matter of dreams, i firmly believe deja vu is nothing more than the actual replay of sequences that one saw in their lucid dreams. lucid is the key for it is in those dreams that one can even remember the most trivial of details. and that is why we are struck by that feeling of deja vu when it happens for real.
i am not that big a believer in interpretation of dreams for an interpretation by nature is an open ended thing and it could paint something as it could be or as it may never be. that probability is too large for me to accept, so lucid dreams are what i go buy!
cheers,
katz
Joseph,
I to am looking into the interpretation of dreams I’m doing a paper on it for my psyc. class. If you get any info would you plz share it with me. I have always been interested in dreams and have always believed as katz belives. But thought i would give it a try for my psyc. class. well have a great day.
tamaray