When I get out of high school, I’d like to study psychology and the landscape of dreams. Dreams give us the power to see things more clearly. Like meditation, they can open our minds to possibilities we couldn’t see before having them. With the right training, anyone can interpret their dreams.
A dream often reflects one’s emotional state more than anything. A dream in which you are afraid is meant for you to confront something you’re afraid about. A dream in which you have anxiety is meant to help fix what is causing the anxiety. A dream in which you feel lost or helpless is meant to point you in the right direction. Recurring dreams mean you haven't fixed the problem your mind is trying to help you with.
The people we see in our dreams typically have nothing to do with them, yet everything to do with us. It doesn't even reflect how we see that person, for sometimes a person we see as generally happy in real life wears a mask of depression in a dream. This can only mean that the people we dream about are projections of our emotional state. They may be people we admire, want to become, or reconcile with, and we have transferred our emotional state onto them.
When interpreting dreams, the first variable the psychologist must consider is emotion. How was the subject feeling during the dream? The things that happen and the people they see are secondary to this most vital information. Only then can the psychologist inventively reveal what the dreamer has projected onto imaginary objects.
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