Freud believed our dreams were the royal road to our dynamically
repressed unconscious: ideas, thoughts, feelings that we found so
disturbing we couldn't possibly access them in the waking world. His
interpretation of dreams was often sexual and it hasn't held up well.
Nevertheless, my therapist put on her Freudian hat when I told her about
a very disturbing dream I had several times. I dreamed I was being
driven fast down a winding mountain road by a tall, dark handsome
stranger in a long, low, sleek, very sexy and cold, fast car. I didn't
scream, I wasn't frightened, but I felt very helpless and out of control
and unhappy. After this dream I was unable to decide how to interpret,
and in which category should I put my dream into, good or bad.
Interpreting my dreams, my therapist told me that the tall, dark,
handsome stranger and the fast car represented my impending marriage,
and my dreams indicated that I didn't want to be married. That might
make sense to a lot of guys but it felt wrong to me. Searching the
internet for information on the interpretation of dreams, I found
DreamsCloud at dream-interpretation. I was greatly relieved to learn
that they thought the best person for interpreting my dreams was me.
Only I'm the one who can give a relevant and sensible meaning to my
dream.
When I asked myself how to interpret my dreams, I realized that I
dreamed them after hearing someone tell me that I could never again
enjoy the sexual smorgasbord that the internet has made available.
While writing my dreams in DreamsCloud's journal interface, I realized that I hadn't enjoyed my time at the sexual smorgasbord. It just seemed a way to get hurt and, especially if you were a man, to hurt. I realized I had been very happy with women I cared about, and happiest of all with my fiancée. Interpreting my dreams myself, I realized they were dreams of driving away from her--down the mountains we do hike together, often in a companionable silence. I can't say my interpretation of my dreams was of a descent into hell, but once I understood that interpretation of my dreams, I didn't have another dream like them, and the vague unease and worry that had clouded me vanished. So now I'm relaxed.
While writing my dreams in DreamsCloud's journal interface, I realized that I hadn't enjoyed my time at the sexual smorgasbord. It just seemed a way to get hurt and, especially if you were a man, to hurt. I realized I had been very happy with women I cared about, and happiest of all with my fiancée. Interpreting my dreams myself, I realized they were dreams of driving away from her--down the mountains we do hike together, often in a companionable silence. I can't say my interpretation of my dreams was of a descent into hell, but once I understood that interpretation of my dreams, I didn't have another dream like them, and the vague unease and worry that had clouded me vanished. So now I'm relaxed.
Freud believed our dreams were the royal road to our dynamically
repressed unconscious: ideas, thoughts, feelings that we found so
disturbing we couldn't possibly access them in the waking world.
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