I often have dreams about an ex I don’t talk to anymore, and I’ve got a pretty good idea why. Our split was acrimonious; he was controlling and coercive and he damaged my self-esteem. Freud thought dreams reveal hidden feelings. Dreams express our unresolved issues and desires. So, if you…
Deciphering dreams has always fascinated me. When we dream, our subconscious mind alerts us to a particular problem. Dreams use visual clues and hidden messages; a kind of code we have to analyse to understand the message. Dreams draw our attention to aspects of our life that need fixing. In…
In the waking world, ghosts are typically seen as frightening creatures sent to scare us. So does this mean that a dream about ghosts is a kind of warning from our subconscious? Not necessarily. It all depends on your situation and what is going on in your real life. To…
One of the most important things you will ever learn in life is how to protect your dreams and self-esteem. Because the truth is, there will be plenty of people with the ability to destroy them. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to pinpoint who those people are, sometimes, until it’s…
What comes to your mind when you hear the phrase ‘the right timing’? A necessary condition for a happy relationship? Or something more metaphysical, such as being in the right place at the right time so that things happen the way they are meant to? Whatever your interpretation is, there…
Anyone who has woken from a dream in which they murdered someone knows how distressing it can be. It doesn’t matter whether you killed someone or you witnessed a killing in the dream. Either way, it’s traumatic. So what do dreams about killing someone mean? Interpreting Dreams about Killing Someone…
Dreams about birds can have a whole range of different meanings. It all depends on the type of bird, what the bird was doing, how many of them there were and so on. Generally speaking, dreams about flying birds represent freedom or a longing to be free. Then, there’s the…
Some dreams are so vivid and intense that we think surely, they must mean something. Well, Freud certainly thought so. But in order to analyse our dreams, we need to find the hidden meaning, in other words, the latent content. Dream analysis and latent content For us to understand dream…