Sometimes we don’t remember them at all. It happens that after waking up, only sensations, impressions remain. And some stories are etched in the memory for life, sometimes repeated and haunting us. How to unravel the mysteries of your dreams? Take advantage of these tips.
People quickly forget most of their dreams, and some don’t remember them at all. If dreams are so important, why do we forget them? This is an important question for researchers.
In fairness, it should be noted: often people still remember at least a few of their dreams. And these memories are distinguished by extraordinary clarity, liveliness and intensity. These dreams are literally impossible to forget – they are stored in memory for a lifetime. Even those who say they don’t remember can often recall a few particularly vivid childhood dreams.
The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung called such dreams “big dreams” and believed that they are different from ordinary ones, which are quickly forgotten. Big dreams connect us to the collective unconscious. Many people consider them to be their most mysterious, incomprehensible and meaningful experience in life.
The dreams of each person have unique qualities that are characteristic of his life circumstances.
Recent scientific research supports Jung’s basic approach to big dreams, and we now have a much better understanding of their nature and function. According to these studies, especially memorable dreams usually involve at least four main motives:
- aggression, expressed in a dream in persecution, a fight or a quarrel, a conflict;
- sexuality expressed in desire, romantic or family relationships;
- gravity, expressed in the fall, entropy, death;
- mysticism, expressed in flights, resurrection, beauty.
The dreams of each person have unique qualities that are characteristic of his individual life circumstances. To understand yourself and activate your dreaming imagination, be respectful of your big dreams, advises psychologist and dream researcher Dr. Kelly Bulkley.
Explore poems, stories, myths, movies and TV shows related to the themes of your dream
Try to remember the most vivid and memorable dreams that you had in your life. You may even remember only one. This is your big dream. It reflects an extraordinarily powerful manifestation of your creative depths.
1. Write this dream in your diary in the present tense in as much detail as you can remember. Give it a name. Separately write down your associations, memories and comments related to it. Re-read what you have written from time to time and add your thoughts if they come up.
2. Draw images from your dream or make a collage of magazine clippings. Try to create a map of the dream space or a diagram describing how events unfolded. If it seems to you that some coincidences, synchronicities and chance meetings in reality are connected with sleep, pay special attention to them.
3. Study poems, stories, myths, movies and TV shows related to the themes of your dream. Share with someone you really trust. Ask him if he has ever had a particularly memorable dream.
4. Experiment with acting out, waking dreams in public or with loved ones, alone or in company. The main thing is to bring the dream into reality, so that its energies become part of reality, and thus transform it.
5. Pay special attention to your other dreams that have similar images and themes.
Try some of the suggestions above and see how your dreams begin to respond to you.