All I Have To Do Is Dream

I think most people dream and many people are able to remember their dreams. I have two recurring dream themes. The first dream happens often. I can pick up a dream where I left off even after I wake up. I frequently dream I can fly. Yes, without wings, just using my bare hands. I can go anywhere and in total control. Not much effort is required, just flap my hands. Because it's so full of fun, I always like to be in such a dream and maybe that's why I can continue the dream. So far, I have not kept any details of the dream, like where I have been when flying to. I have always wondered what this dream meant. So finally my curiosity got the better of me. I search on the net and this found that flying dreams typically illustrate your sense of freedom and feeling liberated from the constraints of everyday life. It sounds like you have just accomplished some project and feel like a big burden has been lifted off your shoulders. Flying dreams are so glorious and liberating that you may not want to come back down to earth (www.dreammoods.com). I find this interpretation interesting because I always yearn for freedom in a part of me even at a very young age.

The other dream is less frequent. I dream I am falling from high ground. I don't get to see the end like falling onto the ground, because by then I would have woken up with a jolt. Only dream of falling in midair. According to www.mydreamdictionary.org,  falling in your dream is the most frequent among all the common dreams we experience in our lifetime. Researchers say the average human will dream about falling to his death more than 5 times in their life.  Falling dreams can be extremely frightening vivid experience that usually last minutes before you hit the ground. Dreams of this nature can make you break out in a cold sweat and ruin most of your day. Falling in your dream should not be over looked, this is a important dream symbol that needs your undivided attention in order to figure out the true meaning. When we fall in our dreams it really means we have lost control with some sort of situation in your life. Falling in your dream is a way your unconscious communicates with your conscious to let you know that something needs to be fixed right away. The more you ignore the issue in your life the higher chance you will plummet to your death in your dream. I can now relate to this dream better on hindsight. My cancer! The dream was telling me way in advance before my cancer was found, that I have lost control of my health. Of course, the dream can also possibly be linked to other areas like work, home or even in your relationship.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, a psychiatrist named Montague Ullman rocked the comfort zone of his colleagues by starting a worldwide movement that significantly changed the way people view their dreams. Known today as peer dreamwork, Ullman’s technique is used to explore the feelings and potential meaning of a dream. Before the movement, dreams were considered diagnostic tools that therapists used to reveal what types of problems their patients might have. Ullman believed that, though dreams may be useful in that regard, they are far more than diagnostic tools.

Ullman is also famous for a theory he called dream vigilance. He noticed that as many as three-quarters of the dreams people reported to him were unsettling or downright troubling. Yet the dreamers who were telling these dreams were not unstable and were not really in any objective trouble. He realized that the dreaming process tends to focus on threats to our happiness long before anything bad actually happens. A part of the mind is like a watchful sentinel in a tower, looking into the distance to see whether any enemies or threats appear on the horizon.

Dream therapists analyze and interpret dreams to find meanings that apply to everyday life. Therapists say dreams are a link to the subconscious, and learning how to understand them is key to understanding yourself. "You're finding your inner voice," explains Alan Siegel, a clinical psychologist who works with children and adults. "If you can learn more about the symbols in your dreams, then you can get more of a sense of what direction to go in."