Author: Luerin Anna
Most of us have had this experience.
Have the same dream over and over again over a period of time.
These dreams will eventually disappear,
But it's going to be repeated over and over again over a period of time.
They can be funny, strange, or just funny.
(For example, we often do flying dreams)
But it can also be haunted by nightmares.
What is the moral of these dreams?
· Jennifer often dreamed of her taking bus 22 through the winding mountain roads. Three days later, she dreamed that a school bus had stopped in front of her house. A week later she dreamed that she was a waitress cleaning up the table.
· Mark had always dreamed of his childhood home. Sometimes he is a child in his dreams, sometimes an adult who matches his current age.
· Serena had been dreaming of her alcoholic father, who had been dead for many years. In the dream, he seemed to want to talk to Serena, but each time Serena would quickly run away from him.
· For years, all my dreams were based on the words "I'm in Israel... "Start, then unfold the next story.
These dreams all have one thing in common, that is, the repetition of the environment. Jennifer in the first dream even repeats an even number: 22. We all know that when an even number appears in a dream, there must be something special about it, not to mention that Jennifer has both an even number and a repetitive scene.
When we dream of the same subject, object, person, or place over and over again, we should pay attention.
These dreams are showing us that something deep wants us to do or understand, and dreams are used in this way to do our best to get our attention.
It's like it's saying, "Hey, look here! ”
Recurring themes suggest that there are certain things in life that we need to address, or at least pay attention to. Recurring nightmares are our unconscious cries for help. These reminders don't always appear in exactly the same dream, but are often replaced by repetitive themes or environments.
Our inner expression is very subtle. In Jennifer's dream, she dreamed several times clearly of the bus, and then dreamed that she was cleaning up the table. This space or theme "bus" is something that needs attention. All she needed to do was figure out what this bus meant in her life. She needs to combine the dreams of her life before and after to figure out the meaning and symbolism of the bus. Does the bus only mean traffic? Or something out of her control? Because the bus in the dream is driven by someone else, what does it mean for her to be on the bus and not on the bus? What if she was driving the bus? What special personal connection does she have with the passengers on the bus? Some dream symbols have certain cultural characteristics, while others are only special for dreamers.
When we often dream of our own childhood homes or family, this usually means that there are unfinished businesses here that need to be addressed. Based on the narrative emotions in the dream, it is possible to discern whether we need to grieve for the loss, whether we need to overcome fear or reconnect with someone we lost contact with in childhood.
When I worked with Serena on dreams about her father, the most prominent thing for both of us was that Selena's father had been trying to tell her something and she had been running away. There is a maxim that goes: "If we resist, the problem will always exist." I asked Serena if she would be willing to face her father bravely and see why his father kept chasing her night and night. When we trusted enough to know enough, she agreed and saw her father in her dream as trying to apologize to her. In this way, she achieves a reconciliation with her father that has not been achieved in reality through dreams.
After suffering loss or trauma in our lives, we may dream about this event or something lost again and again. In this case, the heart can help us heal ourselves by recalling the event in our dreams until the event no longer has a strong emotional impact.
It's an organic form of desensitization that can help us heal and move on. If our own system is able to handle the annoyances well, over time, the frequency, intensity, and vividness of dreams will automatically decrease until they fade away.
Finally, shamanic wisdom tells us that sometimes we forget a part of ourselves somewhere and we must retrieve it in order to make ourselves whole. This may be literal, it may be symbolic. As far as I'm concerned, it's both. After living in Israel for a few years, I returned to the United States to complete graduate school. I settled in Boston, got married, had a child, but my Israeli dreams continued. By the time I went back again and reconnected with the land to form a whole, my dreams had taken me through the countless landscapes of the land.