Let's talk dreams. [This site is called "therapy" after all...]
From time to time someone will ask me what I think about dreams.
Yes, we dream.
Yes, I dream.
Yes, sometimes I think dreams are very symbolic and reveal something from our unconscious.
And yes, sometimes dreams are difficult to unravel and we just let them be.
I had the grossest dream of all time the other night. Well, maybe not of all time. But close.
I was dreaming I was hungry and my stomach felt funny. I was looking for different things to eat and someone offered me a nice bowl of mice. Yes, a pile of live, raw little white mice. I said no thanks and felt very nauseous. Then, I was still looking for food and someone offered me a big helping of chopped up, fried pieces of mice thinking surely I wouldn't mind eating mice if they were cooked. Yes, still the little white ones. And I said, "No! Now I want to throw up."
[I'm not sure if I should have given you that glimpse into my odd unconscious.]
One could imagine all kinds of interpretations from this dream.
-I'm a snake but don't want to eat my prey.
-I'm hungry for life but unwilling to take the nourishment life provides to me.
And plenty of other interpretations. [Feel free to pipe in with yours.]
Still, my guess is that somehow the little white mice I had seen in a pet store that day got stuck in my head (and the story of how they are eaten by prey). And my upset stomach worked its way into my dream combining the mice as a nice backdrop for nausea.
So sometimes dreams are a wonderful glimpse into our complex psyche. And sometimes they are just weird dreams.
What do you think of dreams?
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