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rotem_hess@hotmail.comTo many people, dreams are nothing but nonesense produced by the brain in the night. But Freud realized that "Interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the unconscious." The brain that produces dreams while we are asleep, is the same brain that is active while we are awake. When the sun goes down and disappears in the night, we can see the stars that are invisible in the day, although they are of course out there all the time. In the same token, when consciousness "falls asleep", elements in the personality that exist also in the day, become visible in the night. And they impact our feelings and behaviors also when we are awake, which means that understanding our dreams is a prerequisite to understanding who we are.
"The
dream-elements are by no means mere representations, but true and actual experiences of the psyche,
similar to those which come to the waking state by way of the senses."
Sigmund Freud
If you dismiss the meaning of your dreams as 'nonsense', you are dismissing the aspects of who you are deep inside. But to be happy means to accept all aspects and not just those that make immediate sense and that conform to how
your parents or society would like you to be.
In the psychoanalytic psychotherapy, we give dreams and feelings more importance than what is given to them in daily life. They are the compass that guides our work. You
will see that dreams make sense. They are coming from the most creative parts of your psyche. The ability to understand your dreams will reduce the resistance of your mind towards the ideas that they represent, and this will give
you access to the creative power that your mind has learned to reject because of childish fears.