Dreams, the theater of the unconscious

From the most innocuous dream to the most symbolic, it is not always easy to understand the stories that the unconscious tells us at night. Representation and performance of the unconscious, dreams are a language . Our tracks to learn how to decode and interpret these codes and nocturnal symbols.

For Luc Uyttenhove, author of the Dictionary of DreamsI at Editions Marabout "dreams are original and unexpected ways to achieve our impossible desires and a magic key to get out of ourselves by living our dreams".
One must not be surprised by the extravagance of certain dreams , their logic is not that of common sense. If dreaming is necessary for the lives of men and women, you must not become obsessed with the underlying message. It only remains to find the key to dreams ...

Dream premonitory, awake, lucid, recurring and nightmare: there are 5 different types of dreams.

- The premonitory dream e : it is generally a harbinger of an important event of your life. Birth as death, these prophetic dreams clearly announce a link with the future in order to better prepare for this experience.

- The waking dream : who has never dreamed awake in the middle of the day? When we relax our attention somewhat and let our imagination run free, we surrender ourselves to such a state of relaxation that our thoughts are no longer controlled. And here, even the most secret parts of our unconscious are revealed!

- The lucid dream : this is a dream in which the dreamer knows he is dreaming. Therefore, he knows he can cope with his anxieties without any fears. The consciousness is almost total and it is us, sleeper, who influence the unfolding of the dream.

- The recurring dream : as its name indicates, the recurring dream implies that we make the same dream in a repetitive way , almost every night. It also happens that only certain elements of the dream can appear to the dreamer several times ...

- The nightmare : generally resulting from a great stress or a conflict that would have occurred during the day, the nightmare when he wakes the sleeper, remains quite clear in his mind. But most of the time, it goes unnoticed ... The symptoms? The nightmare is usually accompanied by fast heartbeat, oppressed breathing and even sweat ...