Truth About Dreams

For many years, dreams were considered just as that, but thanks to the investigation of multiple professionals in the ambit, we have discovered the real meaning behind them.

Dreams, according to Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist and essayist, Carl Jung, a key figure in the initial stage of psychoanalysis and later, founder of the school of analytical psychology, dreams are a way of the unconscious mind to communicate with the conscious mind.

“The main function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance,” said Jung.

Jung used to treat his patients using their dreams as a psychiatric tool to solve issues with their personal lives, relating them to the meaning behind the strange sequences we see when we sleep.

Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of repressed infantile wishes according to Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist of Jewish origin, father of psychoanalysis and one of the greatest intellectual figures of the 20th century.

“The mind, through dreams, tries to realize the desires that have been repressed during wakefulness,” said Freud.

From a Psychological and Psychiatric perspective, dreams are more than random sequences of information thrown in disorder during sleep, dreams could be the interpretation of our frustrations asking to be brought to the surface so that their analysis and therefore solution can be carried out.

Jung suggested that dreams act as a compensation mechanism to balance conscious and unconscious aspects of the personality. They can offer images and situations that compensate for deficiencies or excesses in a person’s conscious life.

Following this perspective, dreams are a tool for our unconscious mind to work more deeply on those things that you repress about yourself, giving you the opportunity to know the origins of those unwanted particularities of your personality that affect your life from other areas.

This and many other methods are being used by multiple professionals to help with mental health or personal life issues related to emotional issues as suggested helping to regulate emotions when talking about it together with a professional.