How in touch are you with your subconscious? Do you ever wonder what in the heck is going on in your psyche when you have an Alice and Wonderland type of dream? Many therapists consider these nighttime adventures key to solving daytime dilemmas. Dream interpretation and psychology has been around for many years and it carries on today. In the early 1900’s Freud published many works about dreams and the subconscious.
The website Dreamgate.com offers detail about Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, “Sigmund Freud saw dreams as protecting sleep, and even more, as protecting our deepest desires and fears. By connecting dreams to the operations of the unconscious, he assured their connection to psychology over the next century of development.
The Jungian Analytical School saw dreams as part of a natural process of healing and wholeness that was leading us towards our own individuation and unique being. They developed a rich body of literature which has deeply influenced the Dream Movement and continues to explore the meaning and value of dreams through mythology, symbols, archetypes, personality types and many esoteric systems that engage us through our imagination and soul.”
And, as an extension of Adlerian psychology today, “…the idea that dreams produce feelings that can lead us to act upon life and live better is continued. Also, that the inferiorities we suffer in life are also seen in dreams and thereby create a continuum between wake and sleep were these issues can be experimented with, safely played with and changed in cooperation with the waking self.”
Perhaps there is something to the protection of a dream that Freud believed, the idea of healing dreams according to Jung or maybe the processing of feelings from the Adlerian school of thought, if you really think about it all of these theories seem plausible.
There seems to be a common thread that links our conscious minds with our subconscious minds. And, this link might be just the thing that empowers a healthier wellbeing. Do not underestimate the power of dream work; whatever is swirling around in your subconscious is reflective of your active life in someway. By giving a little attention to your nighttime undertakings, this exploration may manifest healthier daytime activities. Isn’t your wellbeing worth taking a closer look at your dreams?