How to Interpret your dreams
Dreams are nothing more than the "children" of our unconscious, the legacy of primitive times. In the unconscious, the so-called primary process reigns (secondary process in psychology is called all the processes for which our consciousness is responsible: this is rational thinking, logic, analysis and synthesis of any information, etc.). T
he primary process, like primitive thinking, is characterized by fluidity of energy, there is no rigid connection between some event, image (for example, the death of a mother) and the emotion that accompanies this image or event in our conscious, real life (in this case, feeling of grief).
Therefore, if we dream, for example, of the death of our mother, we may not experience any sorrow, or experience only slight sadness, or even the opposite feeling - stormy joy. Thus, the emotion of grief is "shifted" breaking away from the very image of the mother's death. It is thanks to the displacement that our dreams look so strange and incomprehensible.
How to interpret dreams? Unfortunately, this is not easy to learn. This requires a certain skill and months of training. First of all, it is necessary to learn to think psychoanalytically - this means the ability to see something deeper behind the usual rational things. Dreams are fundamentally illogical, and therefore you need to try to turn off logic when interpreting them.
Freud said:
"Two things are required of the dreamer: increasing attention to his psychic perceptions and turning off the criticism with which he usually sifts through emerging thoughts."
The interpretation of dreams is based on the method of free association discovered by Freud - the pronunciation of everything that comes to mind. It is very difficult. It is worth trying to start doing this, even alone with yourself, and immediately a stupor may arise. From childhood, we are taught to clearly structure our speech and thoughts, to reason logically, and not to carry incoherent nonsense from words.
As soon as a person begins to try to “freely associate”, then all sorts of thoughts and words either disappear from him, or he considers them incomprehensible nonsense, nonsense and even indecent things, and does not consider it necessary to express them. To overcome this, it is necessary to turn off the internal censor and logic. This is very difficult to do. Try it and see for yourself.
A person is hindered not only by the absence of the habit of freely associating, but also by unconscious internal resistance, for which the same censorship is responsible, and which always strives to make sure that the true meanings of the dream remain unrecognized. If a person learns to carry such "nonsense" - he quickly begins to understand what primitive thinking "hid" from him, and how useful it is sometimes to turn off logic in order to plunge into the archaic of his own psyche, into how our ancestors "thought". In the end, it’s just interesting.
In order to take the first step - focusing attention is not on the whole dream as a whole, but only on its individual fragments. Now it is worth starting to express your associations, thoughts, in general, everything that comes to mind about this or that fragment. Let it be even any separate and "irrelevant" words. The most important thing here is not to think at all. After a certain amount of training, you will learn to better understand your dreams, and therefore, yourself and the people who are near you.
Often dreams, however, are very difficult to tell, they are vague, approximate, unclear. But for the interpretation of dreams, this does not matter at all. Dreams are illogical and unclear in principle, therefore everything that comes to a person's head in a state of wakefulness when he tells a dream, paradoxically, also refers to the "thoughts" of a dream.
After all, when we plunge into free associations, we are practically daydreaming. Our dreams are a product of our own psyche, this is the same fantasy that we can come up with in reality. Our associations about dreams are also a product of our psyche, so there is no need to fear that we will inaccurately convey the dream.
However, sometimes a stupor is an indicator that in front of you is a symbol, which, as a rule, is interpreted in the same way for everyone. But using only symbolism for the interpretation of dreams is completely pointless, since symbols are only a very small part of the "idea" of a dream.
In addition, a dream can almost never be interpreted without the participation of the free associations of the dreamer himself: no one can know the dream better than himself. Therefore, questions like: “What does my dream mean?”, Being asked not to yourself, do not make sense. Although an experienced psychotherapist can still give some direction of thought, but, again, having listened, for a start, to the dreamer himself.
That is why Freud deliberately scattered symbols and their meaning throughout his works - so as not to provoke the creation of another dream book. As a rule, there is no traditional interpretation of dreams - most of them are unique and have a very specific meaning for a particular person.
Many dreams are from Satan, but as a Muslim, when I am exposed to my dream, I search for its interpretation