Dreams & Related Symbols - Part 2

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Freud said: "There still remain anxiety s as a special subdivision of s with a painful content whose interpretation as wish-fulfillment s will be most unwillingly accepted by the unenlightened. However, I can deal briefly with anxiety s here; they do not represent another aspect of the problems posed by s. Rather, it is a matter of understanding and above all it is neurotic anxiety. The anxiety that we feel in s is only apparently explained by the 's content. When we try to discover the meaning of a 's content, we notice that the anxiety felt in a is no better explained by its content than the anxiety felt in a phobia. Phobia can be explained by the mental image, which induces it. For instance, it is true that one may fall out of a window, and therefore may reasonably exert a certain amount of caution around a window. But this does not explain why in its phobic form the fear is so powerful and the sufferer pursued by the fear far beyond its cause. The same explanation is valid for phobias as for anxiety s. The anxiety is in both cases only loosely linked to the association, and actually derives from another source."

Freud did not believe in a god, but he still attached great significance to s. Freud said s were a peephole into our unconscious, which directs much of our lives and our s. The unconscious was made up of forbidden childhood, wishes and intense impulses of our strong need for love. Freud thought that s were venting our emotions or fulfilling our unconscious wishes, except that we had to conceal the really awful stuff (like wanting to have Mommy all to ourselves), because such thoughts would wake us up. Thus, for insight, Freud thought analysts needed to separate the surface or manifest content from the repressed forbidden feelings and urges, which were the real causes of our problems. That is what " analysis" involves, i.e. figuring out the symbols, the distortions, the displacement, and the reversal of feelings (all designed to hide the real purpose of s and calm us down so we can continue to about these awful, shameful emotions and needs).

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To is natural, it is a universal experience. All people belonging to different culture and creed enter into this state when they sleep. Sleep research has shown that even animals . How we regard the vary from culture to culture and from person to person.

Unfortunately most of us remain blissfully unaware of our s - we fail to remember them. Even if we do remember, a it is typically dismissed as meaningless and unimportant. For those of us who do place an importance in , it still remains a mystery. ing is one of the most fascinating experiences of the mind. At the same time it is one of the most perplexing. So often we know that a is trying to tell us something but still it's meaning eludes us. Its language appears strange and yet familiar.

There are no fixed rules for the interpretation of s. Each is unique and must be approached in it's own way. Dictionaries of symbols, books and various psychological theories offer us very little when it comes to the actual . For, again, the riddle would not have been asked if the answer were readily available. Here are some of the elements that have its own expressions in its own way by the researchers.

Fish - contents of the sea, of the unconscious, and inspiration.
Fishing - waiting for inspiration, waiting for a .
Two fishermen - proper, serious farmers of the unconscious.
Fish shop- a place where inspiration is stored and sold, like books and book shops.
My dinner - my spiritual nourishment.
Frozen fish - inspiration caught and stored by others.
Disappointment - from the wanting of fresh, personal inspiration.

So in these small and trivial ways, we can get to the conclusion of things what we see in our s. As a matter of fact, it can be interpreted as and what it symbolizes. Sometimes the s can be so fearful that we need some explanation regarding it to feel a bit of satisfaction and rid ourselves of the fear.

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