WHAT DO DREAMS MEAN?

TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT DREAMS AND WHAT THEY MEAN. WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON EARTH DREAMS. IT IS A UNIVERSAL PHENOMENON. SO EVERY NIGHT WHEN YOU GO TO SLEEP, YOUR MIND CONTINUES TO PROCESS AND SORT THROUGH EMOTIONS OR EXPERIENCES, AND WHETHER YOU REMEMBER THEM OR NOT, YOUR DREAMS ARE A WAY THAT YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND COMMUNICATES WITH YOUR CONSCIOUS MIND.
DREAMS CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS A REFLECTION OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, OR WISHES AND FANTASIES, PERHAPS STIRRED UP BY RECENT EVENTS OR FROM EXPERIENCES IN THE PAST.
SOMETIMES THE DREAMS CAN BE STRAIGHTFORWARD AND THE MEANING RELATIVELY CLEAR, AND OTHER TIMES THEY CAN BE DISTORTED OR DISGUISED AND UNRECOGNIZABLE TO US. BUT, IF YOU SPEND ANY TIME PROCESSING YOUR DREAMS, THEY CAN HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND PARTS OF YOUR PERSONALITY AND/OR ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE THAT YOU MAY BE STRUGGLING WITH. WORKING WITH DREAMS CAN CONNECT US TO OUR INNER WISDOM AND INTUITION.
THROUGH OUR RESEARCH WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME COMMON THEMES WITH DREAMS LIKE: DREAMS OF FALLING, OR FLYING, BEING NAKED IN PUBLIC, LOSING YOUR TEETH, BEING CHASED, OR SWIMMING THROUGH WATER.
BUT WHILE THERE IS NO SINGLE, DEFINITIVE MEANING FOR SYMBOLS AND IMAGES IN DREAMS, THERE ARE SEVERAL GUIDELINES THAT CAN HELP US SEE OUR DREAMS MORE CLEARLY AND TO UNDERSTAND THEIR UNDERLYING MEANING. OF COURSE IN THE END, IT IS STILL IMPORTANT TO LOOK WITHIN TO FIND OUT WHAT THE DREAM MEANS TO YOU.
AND WITH THAT IN MIND MY GUEST TODAY IS CARDER STOUT, A PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND DREAM ANALYST WHO HAS A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN BRENTWOOD CALIFORNIA.

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I dream a lot. I have. The same dream at least twice a week if not more. Mine deals with an ex who still loves me and wants me back. But his wife is very controlling he not a loud to be him self any more. He's very unhappy wants out of marriage. She has gotten him fired many times when they desperate. I feel as though he talks to me telling me what's going on. He so sad. We were friends 10 yrs or more before we ever dated and was involved. I don't think about him or talk about him He just pops up in my dreams.