On September 25, World Dream Day, we invite you to dream together. A mysterious, unimportant “way of thinking”. Because it helps us strengthen our memory, metabolize our emotions and stay in harmony with ourselves. In other words, life is more beautiful. As a good psychologist explains here
The beauty of dreams
I confess: After my mother died, I could not realize my dreams for many years. Or at least that’s how it seems to me. Maybe I was too afraid to find it there, in one of those elusive images over which we have no control, images that make us feel something deep and intense. Then when the sun comes up, something grows, fades, disperses, takes on other forms because of memory, like when you pour water into a hole, but it still lives deep in your heart. Then one night I started again. “Great!” I said to myself. Since then, thank God, I have never stopped.
Don’t be afraid to dream.
Now, I wake up almost every morning with new feelings; sometimes happy, sometimes scared, sometimes crazy. But it always works. Yes, because dreams give us time to focus on what is important. They deceive us with good intentions, making us think we are close to understanding ourselves.
Let’s start from the beginning. What is a dream?
“They are what we think while we sleep. Although dreams are present in our lives, they are a gift that exists between the brain and the heart. When trying to interpret it, it is important to keep in mind that when we talk about dreams, we are talking about at least three different things.
What is their specialization?
“First of all, dreams are a private experience of the dreamer: they cannot be shared, they cannot be used, they are connected to a consciousness “other” than the consciousness of the day. Then the dream becomes a memory and it is not easy. When we open our eyes, he is gone, we know in the story that we have betrayed him, that we have chased him, but he escapes us. What I mean is that I think of dreams as a lost object that creates a sense of wonder in us for things we know will never come back. After all, dreams are a neurological phenomenon: they are not a kind of “brain foam” or waste product, as many scientists once believed. I think of dreaming as a “mental training” that we can put together and create surprising, inexplicable stories that we cannot understand, that support and accompany us throughout the day or throughout a lifetime.
We know dreams are difficult, but they have a great purpose. Where?
Psychoanalysis and now neuroscience teach us that dreams are a function of the mind in many ways, a visual representation of thoughts that can represent the mind, consolidate memories, metabolize thoughts and emotions, and even solve problems! The chemist apparently became aware of the existence of the benzene ring when he dreamed that a snake was biting its own tail.
So you could say that they help us live a better life.
“At the end of the examination, one of my patients, who is a pragmatic manager, said to me when we were discussing what he would get out of the treatment: “I didn’t say that Anger was a thing. On the contrary, I think you know what they do? We will be happy when we wake up. ” This is true. Listening to dream life brings us closer to ourselves, to the diversity of our consciousness, and makes us realize that there is another world inside us. Paradoxically, it reminds us of our subconscious. This experience is a great way to go in. Memories, thoughts, worries, desires, fears, all exist in dreams. We know nothing, we understand nothing, but we know who we are. That’s why dreams are important.
