Are dreams merely a manifestation of our hidden desires and repressed thoughts? Or is there a deeper link between our subconscious and the supraconscious that connects us to the worlds beyond in those moments of unawareness? In the stillness of the night, when not a sound breaks the hushed silence, they timorously creep into your mind. Fragile, flittering forms—often more real than reality—seek you out from the deepest abyss of your soul and open for you a vista of visions—nonsensical, terrifying, fantastic—and sometimes, just sometimes, hauntingly beautiful. You wake up with a lump in your throat that threatens to cascade down your eyes, a lingering nostalgia for something near, yet eternity away. But weren't you closer to believing, even then, that somewhere, all that you saw was real; that, beyond the tangible truth of ticking time, you had lived one moment of timeless infinity? Perhaps that's the secret. The chance to glimpse beyond. Why else should we take a dream, those phantasms of the chaotic unconscious, so seriously?
"All dreams reflect the
desire of the jiva (individual consciousness) to merge with Shiva (cosmic consciousness)." And since the jiva knows itself as the body, the spiritual desire manifests as a desire to please the body. Not quite what Sigmund Freud would say, but close enough.
Like Freud, Goel also claims that most dreams reflect repressed desires, the strongest being sexuality. But he goes further. "Since the spiritual desire of merging with the cosmic consciousness is repressed with birth, erotic dreams are a common phenomenon." And a person trying to tap his spirituality is more prone to such dreams. Freud's latent and manifest content of dreams holds true here as well. "We all have a subconscious defense mechanism that makes us hide the yet unclear aspects of our personality." And the clues, says Goel, lie not so much in the symbols—which vary from person to person—but in the emotional content of the dream.
symbols & INTERPRETATIONS
Snakes: In Indian tradition, moving
Snakes symbolize the stirring of kundalini. In Freudian terms, snake is a phallic symbol. Jung, however, interpreted snakes as symbolic of the conflict between conscious attitudes and instincts.
Houses: According to Freud, dreaming of houses
indicates the desire to visit a brothel. In Jungian terms, a house is a representation of the self and its rooms are personality aspects.
Birds: For Freud, birds are phallic symbols. For Artemidorus and Jung, birds are images of the soul, the desire to be free. And their condition in the
dream indicates the condition of the soul.
Flying: For Freud, once again, this indicates sexual activity. Jung suggests that flying symbolizes confidence, liberty and transcendence. In modern terms, flying dreams symbolize exceptional ability.
Exhibitionism: In Freudian
terms this indicates a desire for uninhibited sexuality. For Jung, it indicates vulnerability and a message from the unconscious to be less self-conscious.
Being chased: Most dream interpreters agree that this seems to suggest childhood fears or present pressures and threats.
Failing: For Freud, falling symbolizes sexual inability. In modern terms, falling represents a fear of loss of control.
Horses: According to Freud,
Horses symbolize the sexual drive. Jung noted that horse dreams could often be indicative of health conditions. Horses can also represent clairvoyance and fertility.
Climbing: Freud interprets this as the desire to have an erection. For Jung it is a transition from one stage of life to another. Modern psychoanalysts believe that climbing dreams reflect the effort required to meet a challenge.
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