Each of us has a dream. If you can understand the meaning of dreams, it is equivalent to understanding the essence behind the subconscious mind and everything that happened in the past, so as to change the status quo, control your life and make yourself happier.
How to explain a dream? Let's share the five steps of dream interpretation.
First, try to tell every detail of the dream completely.
Second, pay attention to the overall atmosphere and emotional feelings. The scene in the dream is different from the reality, but the emotion and reality are the same. That is, dreams are illusory, but emotions are real, so the trend of emotions is often a problem of dream expression.
Third, look at the overall theme of dreams, such as: family movies, horror movies, love movies, fantasy movies, supernatural movies ...? Different topics will present different problems. For example, action movies and war movies may be related to stress, and family ethics may be related to daily life.
Fourth, make a summary of the dream story. That is to find a direction, find a more appropriate meaning among multiple symbols, and find the answer.
5. Discover things beyond your dreams. The same dream has different meanings to different people. For example: the dreamer's age, gender, experience, etc.
The structure of a dream is the plot and details of a dream, and the pattern of a dream refers to the repetition of an action or a scene. For example, you always do something wrong, your dreams always turn upside down, you always lose things, and you always get lucky ... these recurring plots are things that your dreams remind you of.
If we divide dreams into two perspectives, one is the dreamer and the other is something other than the dreamer, we should pay attention to the relationship between them.
People and things in dreams are not necessarily the same as those in reality, but they have something in common. For example, fighting with a bunch of bad guys, quarreling, and falling in love with someone, it is possible that these people represent the other side of themselves. For example, the father in the dream leads the elders, which may just symbolize authority or moral norms.
The most emotional thing refers to the most familiar, simple and obvious thing, and we can easily know its symbolic meaning. For example, Freud believed that swords and guns were symbols of male sexual organs. According to this logic, the following dream is easier to solve.
A girl dreamed that a man was chasing it with a gun. She fled to a building, and the man came in and shot. The girl ran into the kitchen, smashed a piece of dough and wrapped the gun so that it couldn't shoot bullets.
For example, the common symbols of keys are relatively simple, representing a place or the answer to a question. If the dream has been looking for the key, combined with the dreamer's current situation, it may be inferred that he is in trouble when facing the new environment.
Of course, we must understand the basic symbolic meaning of some things, and then make a comprehensive judgment according to the dreamer's recent or past experience.
Different professional counselors have different interpretations of dreams. Freud paid attention to the Oedipus conflict, Jung paid attention to the collective subconscious, and Adler paid attention to one's inferiority and superiority.
Different psychologists pay attention to different angles, so they get different dream interpretation results. Which one is right? Actually, it's all right, because dreams are multidimensional.
A good dream interpreter should choose a dimension analysis that is more suitable for the dreamer according to his own actual situation, and communicate with the dreamer in real time to confirm, instead of directly telling the other party what the dream means according to his own inherent thinking.
Only when the dreamer approves and his inner feelings are very enlightening can he give real help, thus affecting the real behavior.
There is another situation, when your dream interpretation is right, the dreamer agrees, but this dream may have touched his pain and trauma, and he is unwilling to admit it. As a consultant, you should know how to be measured. Don't directly expose each other's pain. If it is not good, it will hurt each other. You can give him some time to understand.
Why can't we understand the meaning of dreams, but we can judge whether the answer given by the dream interpreter is correct?
Because we can't interpret dreams on the conscious level, but we actually know it in the subconscious, but we can't perceive it ourselves. When the dream interpreter gives the answer, we will compare the answer with our own heart and find the connection, and our heart will be touched: Wow, that's it!
You can also interpret dreams through the dreamer's free association. For example, what will happen next in this dream, and what would you do if you were one of them; It can also be imagined as things in dreams, such as cars and horses in dreams. What is your feeling? Why do you feel this way?
Through this kind of free association, we can get more information related to dreams that is not reflected in dreams, which is more conducive to a clear interpretation of dreams as a whole.