Interpret Your Own Dreams

Interpret Your Own Dreams

By Peggy Toolen

Ever have a dream that is so vivid that you remember it all day long? Or a nightmare that scares you so bad you sit up in your bed shaking and breathing hard? Ever try looking up the meanings of your dreams in a dream book and it just didn’t make any since?

The truth is your dreams come from your subconscious thoughts. Things that have happened to you throughout the day or things you thought about or worried about throughout the day. When we are sleeping our brain does kind of a defragmenting like a computer.

Your dreams may not make any since when you wake up and try remembering the dream. And it may be something that you think has nothing to do with what went on during your day. You may be feeling things you have suppressed or maybe just tried to ignore but your brain in the sleep mode picks up on it. Your dreams are a type of release of suppressed emotions and thought from your day. 

An example of this is a dream I have had recently where I was walking through a tunnel and there were several other people there. A small child is following me and clinging to me. I feel very annoyed by the child being there and try to get away from him.  I eventually push the child away from me only to turn and look to see that I had pushed a disabled child down. I feel horrible and pick the child up and apologize over and over but the child just looks at me as if I’m an awful person.

I believe this dream might be about emotions I’ve tried to suppress in my life. My husband has been disabled for a while now and I’ve been taking care of him. I believe that maybe my dream comes from the feelings of stress in my situation. The small child in my dream might represent my husband’s needs that I have to be aware of at all times. And me pushing the child away only to find that he was disabled is how I feel about not being able to get a break from the situation. I feel like I want a break but I feel badly for wanting that.