Meaning And Meaning Of Dreams

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Dreams, Their Meanings and Impact

I wake while the outside is still dark, with a hazy feeling over my eyes. I realize the dream I had and suddenly my muscles tighten and anxiety and panic come over me. The reason is my mind is confused how I am alive since I died so precisely and horribly. This made me wonder how a dream could have so much impact on my life. How is it that I can feel death and yet be alive? How is it that a dream can cause so much panic? I then started my search for the answer of whether or not the dream I had as well as any dream had any foundation or not.

Story of the Search Do dreams mean something hidden, obvious, or nothing at all? Possibly or it can be something else. Dreams have been around for centuries but for most of time, people have disregarded them. It wasn’t until Psychology developed from the insane asylum to the therapy room that dreams were looked on as something more than meaningless abstract images. I at least had one book to help lead into what dreams mean. Specifically on death dreams, their meaning for some “may relate to aspects of the dreamer’s own psychological life, or to a change in life-circumstances.” (Fontana, 99) I thought that perhaps I may be going through a big change so maybe that was why I had such a dream. But that …show more content…

The results I found were that dreams can have hidden or obvious meanings behind them and that the very dreamscape can be constructed from what we experience. Dreams can also embody many of our wants and needs and can visualize our obvious and inner thoughts. As for their impact, they can have a wide range of positive and negative afflictions or simply nothing. Dreams can impact us in many ways and we can impact dreams in many ways. It is an interwoven cycle that can either spiral out of control or be in perfect harmony. Most of the time we can decide on how our dreams impact us and how we can impact our

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