The day is over. A whole hive of thoughts are spinning in my head. Events, unsaid words, exciting moments are scrolled through, “plans for tomorrow” emerge. Gradually consciousness lets go. The eyes close. The bustle of the day smoothly flows into a “turbulent river flow”, and business negotiations into a “berry edge”...
If you remember your dreams, then you are very lucky. Through them you can receive important information, tips or answers to your questions. But you need to read such messages wisely.
According to the established idea of dreams, people wait for some unconditional prophecy after awakening. It is believed that a dream can foreshadow certain events. Indeed, the subconscious mind has information that cannot be obtained in a library. But just imagine how much information enters your brain throughout your life. And sleep is, first of all, not a book of prophecies, but a way of relaxation and relaxation for the brain.
While you sleep, it tries to cope with the information received and free you from unnecessary garbage. In the REM sleep stage, you first of all restore your psychological health. This state is very similar to a trance. Both in a state of sleep and in a state of trance, you have direct communication with the subconscious. In the cycle of images and feelings, without specific requests, it is difficult to predict what matters to you and what just happened by chance.
To identify truly significant dreams for yourself, you need to pay attention to their frequency. If you have the same dream, then look for the “key” in it. Note! There may be many dreams, but the message is one. A recurring dream does not mean a 100% copy of the previous one. You may see other places, images, situations, but wake up with the same feeling. This is exactly how, in different ways, the subconscious is trying to convey important information to you. All you need to do is accept this signal and understand its meaning.
As for receiving a signal, for many this is not a big deal. It is enough to remember with what inspiration many begin their story: “For many years I have had the same dream...” But, judging by the fact that this has been happening for “many years,” the meaning remains unsolved. To complete the picture, we will go in search of meaning.
If you have already had something similar, and you have recorded a recurring feeling, now you can turn to your unconscious with a request to reveal to you the meaning of the message.
To do this you have two ways:
1. Through sleep.
Before you fall asleep, mentally replay your last dream. Remember the sensations. Reach out to the unconscious. Ask him to convey the same thing, but in other images, closer to your life. Agree with yourself that you will remember this dream and decipher its meaning.
2. Through trans.
You remember your dream, you know that there is something important for you, but the meaning remains unclear. To dot all the i's, you will need some external image from which you will build. For example, playing cards:
- Mentally ask a question and pull out 5-7 cards face down from a full deck of cards. Make a pattern out of them. Look at them.
- Ask the unconscious to show the same answer (information), with the same meaning, but in a different image.
- Close your eyes. Did other pictures and images appear? Monitor your feelings. Think about how this might relate to your question. You may already understand the meaning of the dream.
- If the meaning has not yet become clear, then open your eyes, look at the cards again and turn to the unconscious for a “new image”... Ask again until you feel the answer. Be prepared to receive it, both through visual images and through auditory or kinesthetic sensations.
When interpreting dreams, put the dream book aside. Rely only on your own feelings. Everything you see, hear, feel belongs only to you and is intended only for you. Your dreams are unique, just like you with your thoughts, desires and ideas.
Most importantly, do not forget to thank yourself for each such step, for each new discovery. And before going to bed, when your daytime meeting begins to turn into the “edge of the forest,” do not forget to quietly whisper: “Dear unconscious, I completely trust you.”
Often we can see the same dream over a period of time. What do recurring dreams say?
Many of us, regardless of age, have encountered recurring dreams at least once in our lives. They may return every night, or at intervals of days, weeks, or even months. Sometimes a person wakes up in the morning and realizes that he has already had a similar dream, but cannot remember when it was.
Such dreams can have both positive and negative connotations, but nevertheless, unpleasant dreams are much more common and memorable. They can be very intense emotionally, so they are well remembered.
Some details of a recurring dream may change over time, but in general the plot is the same.
Modern psychologists claim that recurring dreams indicate important processes and events in our lives that should be given increased attention. Most likely, we are not aware of these processes or are not mentally ready to recognize them.
Our subconscious mind uses repetition to imprint a truly important message into the conscious mind. But at the same time, the very fact of repetition suggests that, despite the warning, our reactions to some life situations remain unchanged. Such dreams need to be taken seriously! After all, the repetition will not stop until the dreamer pays attention to a certain area of life or the problem that the dream is talking about and changes his attitude towards it.
What to do?
If you often observe similar events and behavior patterns in your dreams, you need to try to understand what your subconscious is so persistently signaling. You need to find the problem, solve it and let it go. Moreover, the problem can concern any area of life - work, relationships, health.
So, to figure out what your subconscious is talking about and how to correct the situation, you can use the following algorithm of actions:
- Try to remember when you had the dream for the first time, and what events in your life it might be associated with.
- Think about what this dream warns you about, what problem you need to solve. To do this, just be alone with yourself, listen to the voice of your intuition - it can tell you the right answer.
- Analyze what is bothering you now and preventing your subconscious from resting peacefully at night. Various methods of relaxation and contemplation can help you with this - thanks to them, you will learn to feel better about yourself and your needs, pay attention to the signals of the subconscious in time, and the need to repeat dreams may disappear by itself.
Recurring dreams are generally divided into two groups: purely personal and typical. Personal dreams show a person's individual problem situations that need to be resolved. Typical dreams reflect feelings of approval or blame, fear, change, criticism, etc.
Typical dreams include:
Flying in a dream - they show a person’s subconscious desire to break out of the usual living conditions, to be free in his choice and actions. The dreamer is most likely burdened by his current situation; he wants to change his life, but the past binds him.
If you often have dreams in which you fly, you need to seriously think about changes.
Falling in a dream - such dreams speak of fear of failure, disappointment, and mistakes. Perhaps the dreamer is overly demanding of himself and does not know how to relax, and this leads to a constant fear of slipping up, of doing something wrong.
If you have to fall in a dream, you need to calm down and streamline your internal state. Try to stop trying to control everything alone, ask for help from people close to you or delegate some of your unresolved matters to them.
Being naked or strangely dressed in public- this dream symbolizes that in real life the dreamer is afraid of being humiliated or ridiculed. He has a fear that no one will approve of his efforts and works, that he will not live up to someone’s hopes.
If you are haunted by such a dream, you should work on your self-esteem. There is no need to seek approval from people around you, or become attached to their assessments. It also won't do you any good to compare yourself to other people. Compare only yourself in the present with yourself in the past.
Passing exams - such a dream can come not only to students and schoolchildren, but also to people who received their education a long time ago. The dream indicates self-doubt and anxiety, as well as a feeling of being the object of criticism and evaluation.
If in a dream you come to an exam unprepared, do not have time to complete the assigned tasks, or forget everything, important changes in life await you, and at the same time you need to take responsibility for your actions and deeds.
Hurry, being late somewhere- such a dream speaks of missed opportunities, the desire to find one’s place in life.
If in a dream you have to rush somewhere or be late, perhaps you have not yet found yourself and your path, and this worries you, causing you to fear missing out on something. In this case, you first need to work with your true desires.
Of course, all these interpretations are of a general nature, and they should not be perceived as the only possible ones. When trying to explain a dream, it is important to take into account the personality of the dreamer, his temperament, behavioral attitudes, emotional mood and other factors. But it won’t hurt to think about why this or that dream comes and pay attention to general clues.
Some psychoanalysts believe that recurring dreams are a special case of serial dreams on a topic that worries a person. In this case, there is a conflict between consciousness and subconscious. For example, a person is clearly concerned about some situation, but in reality does not want to admit it, so the problem is not solved. And the subconscious is trying to “reach out” with the help of sleep. The goal in this case is one - to prevent the development of neurosis.
Other psychoanalysts immediately classify recurring dreams as an already established neurosis: if a person has been focused on a problem for a long time and constantly thinks about it. This anxious state is reflected in the plots of dreams. In this case, the help of a specialist can get rid of neurosis.
Answer to the question: Trying to deal with the problem alone or turning to a psychotherapist depends on the specific situation. If sleep really interferes with your life, causes fears and anxieties, occupies all your thoughts and distracts you from everyday activities, you most likely need to seek help from a professional. If the dream does not bother you too much, is rarely repeated, and arouses interest rather than fear, you can try to figure out the problem yourself.
Trying to “rewrite the script”
Psychotherapists advise, in case of a recurring dream, to carry out a ritual of modeling a new storyline. Every evening, remember the content of the intrusive dream and imagine a plot line that would suit you. At the same time, the ending of the dream must be favorable for you.
In this way, you can tune your subconscious to a more favorable scenario for you. This procedure must be repeated until the plot of the dream changes, or the dream ceases to bother you at all.
According to psychologists, such programming will change your situation in reality.
Dreams - warnings of illness
Sometimes recurring dreams are a sign of a disease that has already occurred or is about to occur. After all, our internal organs are connected by nerve pathways to the cerebral cortex. People who get sick or are already sick tend to remember their dreams more often.
For scientists, the appearance of such dreams is no longer a mystery. For example, the Roman physician Claudius Galen describes such a case in his works. One of his patients had a dream that his leg was turning to stone. After a certain time, my leg became paralyzed. And there are many such examples.
During sleep, a person does not receive information from the outside world. Therefore, his brain freely receives signals about malfunctions of one or another organ.
Warning dreams about diseases begin to appear at the beginning of the incubation period of the disease. Doctor of Medical Sciences N.V. Kasatkin collected many observations on this topic. He analyzed about a thousand dreams, and noted that with all illnesses, dreams always contained visual images associated with signs of illness: stomach - stale food, vomiting; lungs - a feeling of suffocation, tight clothing making it difficult to breathe; heart - strong fear of death, blow or wound to the chest; skin diseases - insects crawling on the body; colds - swimming in cold water; head - hats or caps, uncomfortable hairstyles.
According to Kasatkin’s research, changes in dreams begin at certain times. For example, a sore throat - the night before; chronic gastritis - about a month; Botkin's disease - about a week; neuroses - from a week to several months; hypertension - from two to three months.
In this case, dreams appear before obvious clinical signs of the disease. The scientist emphasizes that if the same dream appears less than several times during the week, there is no cause for concern. Otherwise, you should consult a doctor.
So, we found out that recurring dreams are signals from our subconscious, and they can signal a variety of unresolved situations in our lives. But do not panic if you recognize in your dream the signs of some approaching problem.
You are individual, and for you the interpretation of a dream can be purely personal. Just listen to yourself, get quality rest, rejoice and open up to the world - and the need for warnings from dreams will go away on its own! Be happy!
Almost every person in his life has once seen or at least heard about such a phenomenon as a recurring dream. It is a series of dreams that a person sees over a long period of time, with the same plot. Often the details of such a dream may change, but the main meaning remains unchanged. Experts, answering the question of why the same dream occurs, first of all tend to talk about the psychological problems of the dreamer, which the subconscious indicates to him. However, some believe that the repetition of a dream can also signal physical health problems or mean a warning from above about something important.
Psychological problems
Thus, there are a number of typical recurring dreams, the plots of which indicate, according to psychologists, the specific aspirations or fears of the dreamer:
- flying in a dream;
- falling in a dream;
- rush in a dream;
- dreams about exams;
- appearing in a dream in an indecent manner.
When asked why people have the same dream about flying, psychologists answer that it speaks of a person’s desire to gain inner freedom and independence. Such dreams simultaneously indicate that the dreamer is dissatisfied with reality and feels constrained in life.
Falls in such dreams signify fear of some kind of failure, the collapse of hopes that are associated with something quite important to the dreamer. The state of haste, which is repeated in dreams, speaks of missed opportunities and a person’s inability to find his place in life.
Repeated dreams in which the dreamer sees himself taking an exam for which he did not prepare or forgot the material he studied indicate anxiety and lack of confidence in his own abilities. That is, a person who has such dreams seems to feel like a subject of evaluation and, probably, also criticism.
Almost the same applies to appearing in recurring dreams in an indecent (often naked or too strange) form, attracting everyone’s attention. This means that the dreamer is very afraid of being the subject of censure, disapproval and even humiliation for others.
Physiological problems
Some neurologists and psychologists agree that often recurring dreams indicate the development of some disease in the human body. Thus, the subconscious mind warns the dreamer about the disease long before its symptoms appear. Experts distinguish specific repeating images that signal the presence of a specific disease:
- spoiled or unpleasant-looking food, nausea and vomiting - problems with the gastrointestinal tract;
- severe fear of death, injury or blows to the chest area - heart disease;
- insects crawling on the surface of the body - skin problems;
- tight breathing, tight uncomfortable clothing, feeling of suffocation during sleep - lung diseases;
- constraining hairstyles, narrow hats - problems associated with the head;
- taking a cold shower, taking an ice bath, or swimming in cool water in general are colds.
But the best way to get rid of recurring dreams is still to visit a psychologist who will help you figure out what problem the dream images indicate and how you can solve it.
Problems related to the meaning and symbolism of dreams have accompanied humanity since time immemorial. People tried to find answers to them using various approaches - philosophical, scientific, religious and even everyday.
The question of why people have the same dream has haunted people for centuries, disturbing their minds and annoying them with its unresolved nature. Deciphering the visions that come during those hours when you are in the arms of Morpheus requires an individual approach. The person’s personality, life situation, sensory sensations, day of the week and even the phase of the moon are taken into account.
Why do I have recurring dreams?
What does it mean if a dream repeats itself? To answer this question, you need to determine the motives of dreams. They can be both personal and typical. And with in-depth understanding of them, each person is able to derive his own interpreter.
Of all the types of nighttime stories, the most alarming is a recurring dream. Rare, short dreams do not always attract attention. But the pictures, which obsessively haunt me over and over again, suggest their non-random origin. Many people very often, after waking up, come to the realization that what they saw at night, in whole, in part or with other details of the scenario, was dreamed of earlier.
Repeated dreams can mean completely different things. People who study the nature of dreams argue that in this way the subconscious mind reacts to a serious life problem and expresses acute emotional reactions that a person tries to suppress in reality.
Most often, such dreams carry a negative, negative charge. In these cases, recurring dreams should be interpreted by psychology as a science designed to change the individual’s attitude to a situation that is not expressed outwardly. The dreamer feels the weight of his burden, which affects him even after waking up, but cannot get rid of the problem on his own.
There is another theory, the conclusions of which are that a frequently recurring dream foreshadows a future fateful event, both positive and with a bad outcome. Therefore, the brain tries to predict the situation in advance and develop a manner of appropriate behavior.
People who are attentive to themselves are not in vain tormented by the question of why they have the same dream several times - they are gnawing at the feeling of discomfort and impending disaster. Sometimes in real life this feeling intensifies, forcing you to change your immediate and distant plans every minute. This sometimes saves you from tragedy or even death.
It has also been noted that if a dream is repeated several times, this indicates dissatisfaction with one’s personal position, which would not hurt to change. Identical pictures do not let go of their owner and continue to appear until the onset of any positive changes.
Why do you have a recurring dream? Using the method of duplicating events, the subconscious sends a message that action must be taken. Usually such visions are vivid and well remembered. Everyone needs to realize why they have the same dream. For example, seeing the same character who does not exist in reality is a reminder of unfulfilled obligations or unfinished business in relation to this person.
What do identical dreams mean?
What does it mean if you have the same dream? Such a vision can mean unpleasant events or foreshadow illness. Sometimes, in a state of tension or malaise, internal organs send a distress signal to the cerebral cortex. There is definitely no mysticism or nervous experiences here, only banal physical pain.
Scientists have not yet figured out why dreams repeat themselves when the body gets sick. History knows of cases where a person has repeatedly dreamed of a diseased part of the body or organ. Subsequently, the vision came true exactly.
If a person is haunted by disturbing dreams with elements of fear of death, combined with sudden awakenings, heart disease can be suspected. The reason why the dream is repeated again and again is the very beginning (incubation period) of the disease. It is important to know that sick people remember their visions more often than healthy people. Recurring dreams, no matter what they lead to, are a serious sign.
And lastly, about why the dream repeats itself. This may be associated with mental disorders. There is a strong opinion about the connection between repeated dreams and manifestations of neurosis. Painful psychological arousal, preoccupation with one problem, “winding up” negative thoughts around it, provoke the same night visions. In this part, it is clear that recurring dreams mean precisely the urgent need to change thoughts, feelings, relationships, and, perhaps, not without the help of a psychologist.
To prevent the well-known expression “a dream in your hand” from becoming the norm of human existence, it is better to keep this very hand on the pulse of your personal destiny. Any views on recurring dreams and what these night pictures mean are very important and sometimes significant moments in a person’s life. This may be a connection to the past, present or future, so they require careful analysis.
