Have you ever had a dream about losing all of your teeth, or maybe a dream about flying? These common dreams all have real-life psychological connections to our daily lives. Our dreams are fostered by our experiences, life events, fears, hopes, etc. I have always had pretty vivid dreams. A lot of my dreams really stick out to me, and even the less memorable ones will weigh on me for a whole day or more. I can recall dreams from when I was as young as six years old. My dreams tend to be at least mostly realistic, as well as quite vivid. Nightmares sting when I wake up, and the good dreams can hurt even worse when I come back to reality.
Recently, my dreams have been especially extreme and leaving a long-lasting impression in my thoughts. Just last night I had a dream about one of my dogs getting lost, and I woke up panicked in tears. For the past few months, I’ve had this recurring dream where I’m driving, most times backward, but my brakes don't work, and I can't park. I knew that dreams are based on your subconscious thoughts, so I decided to look up my dream and see if anything really made sense.
According to Ian Wallace, a Psychologist and self-proclaimed “Media Dream Expert,” he says that dreams about driving backward can quite literally represent us moving backward and not be able to achieve the high goals we have set for ourselves. He also said of a faulty brake dream can represent a feeling of not having control over our lives. This mostly makes sense to me in my context. For most of the school year so far, I’ve been able to keep it together and stay focused on my goals. However, I know that I’ll always have strong underlying thoughts to doubt myself and my abilities. I can see how this dream I keep having really symbolizes some major subconscious fears I have.
Now obviously not all dreams have some deep underlying meaning that’s trying to tell you to get your life together. A lot of dreams are just meaningless jumbled messes of random people, things, and experiences from your life. I find it fascinating, though, how some dreams can really represent or symbolize some major things going on in our lives.
On the 3BDF blog, Talya also wrote a post about dreams that you might want to check out! jams3bdf19b.blogspot.com
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DeleteI've also had the "brakes not working" dream. Do you know that feeling when you trip, and you're headed towards the floor, and you suddenly realize what's happening and that there is nothing you can do about it? That's the same feeling I get in that dream, except it's prolonged. I never crash in the dream, but I feel like I'm about to crash for what seems like hours. I can definitely see how that would relate to the subconscious fear of not having control over your life.
ReplyDeleteI think its so interesting how our dreams can convey our thoughts and feelings about events that have or are occurring in our lives. I also find it fascinating on how our mind displays these thoughts and feelings through obscure situations, which are our dreams. For example, in the past I have had dreams about not being able to move rather than your example of not being able to control your driving. I wonder if there is a specific reason why different people have dreams with different scenarios. I am thinking that they may be based on experience.
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