Dreams

Things happen while you sleep.

We all dream! As a psychoanalyst, it’s a fascinating aspect of therapy to explore the patient’s inner world while sleeping. And it can even be fun to help patients make “associations” or connections to different parts of the dream to what is going on in their waking life.

One of the ways I work with dreams is to ask the patient to keep a dream journal or sketch it.

Keeping a journal is not only good practice for establishing a pattern that will be useful, but it also means that you will have a personal record that will help you see and work with any pattern that occurs in your dream.

Here comes the fun part!

With this journal and our discussions, we can begin the process of analyzing your dreams.

Remember that every dream is a message from yourself to yourself – expressed in what we’ll call a “code” that only you can learn to understand and interpret.

My role in this interpretive process is to ask you questions about what you were feeling, where you were, who’s who, the atmosphere, the colors, etc., in the dream.

Dreams are puzzling snippets of reality.

Learning to interpret your dreams is like solving a challenging crossword puzzle.

Some patients have the kind of mind that enables them to grasp the nature of the problem quickly and easily, while others feel they will never be able to do it.

It is essential to approach dream interpretation with a relaxed frame of mind because tension will aggravate any problem you may have.

Learning to relax while surrendering to your dreams and your inner life is the key to interpretation!

Sweet dreams!

“The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.”
– Sigmund Freud

Let’s start the interpretation and find out what your dreams reveal. The results may surprise you!

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