Throughout our lives, we constantly see dreams: pleasant and scary, sad and joyful, fantastic and ordinary. But almost no one thinks about the fact that any dream carries with it the opportunity to learn a lot of interesting and useful things about oneself, to bring into consciousness what is hidden in the depths of forgotten memories. A dream, as a rule, contains numerous metaphors and images that will help reveal unconscious needs, answer questions that interest us, see our personality in a new light and connect the disparate parts of our “I”.

It is advisable to start every morning by remembering your dreams. Having caught on to any detail, you can unravel the threads of seemingly lost images, and subsequently restore most of the dream. After reproducing the dream in memory, you need to pay attention to the most intense images that evoke an emotional reaction. Next, you need to enter each image as fully as possible, merge with it, and feel like a character in your dream. Become a monster that chases you or a stranger, an old broken car that you remember strongly in a dream or an abandoned house that has become rickety from time to time. Go through any detail that attracted attention or caused disgust/fear/joy, that is, any object with emotional overtones. When reproducing your dream, try to feel, without words, this or that image.

Remember what interested you in the coming days; often a dream contains something that was missed, forgotten, something that you need to realize and make into your life experience. It is important to remember that analyzing and mentally analyzing dreams gives only minor results and leads to further illusory constructions that confuse you even more. It is much more effective to relive your dream, consciously, noticing any reactions you have to it.

Any character in your dream is part of your personality. Bad, angry and scary images often represent the manifestation of rejected parts of the personality. Suppressed anger or resentment, traumatic memories and much more that you have discarded as negative are reflected in the form of dreams. The internal struggle that increasingly accompanies a person throughout life leads to the suppression and repression of certain aspects of our “I”. Everything that is assessed as negative or undesirable and is subsequently repressed from consciousness weakens and divides us. For example, if we cannot experience and recognize our anger, calling it unacceptable for a “cultured” or “kind” person, we become more vulnerable. Anger, in turn, is either a reaction of adaptation to unexpected events, or an unconscious fear for one’s life or an illusory image that most of us diligently maintain in front of others. Rejecting any feeling, considering it bad, we are divided into several independent parts: one of which experiences this feeling, the other denies or blames itself for its manifestation. Thus, the internal struggle increasingly splits us into many opposing personalities, into different “I”s, which from time to time take power over us. One way to regain integrity, calm and confidence is through dream integration. By remembering and experiencing our dream, turning into negative and positive characters, into details of the situation and entire buildings, into various objects and vague images, we will be able to bring internal conflicts to the light of awareness and resolve them. By becoming conscious of dreams, we discover, step by step, new facets of our inner world. After all, every piece of sleep expresses our complex, fragmented “I”. By simultaneously perceiving two parts of our personality fighting each other, we bring them to integration, merging into one stable entity. By considering your dreams as metaphors, it is possible to discover long-forgotten desires, memories and unfinished business that drain vital energy from us and that do not allow us to live a harmonious and happy life.