Dreams and the Subconscious: Key Insights from Consciousness Studies
...not only in your unconscious, but also in the collective unconscious. What is important is that we can also act with symbols and modify the currents of our subconscious, but the subconscious can also stop us through symbols. This is what happens in dreams. Not all dreams are equal, because most dreams have no value. But there are dreams that are significant, that is, when you wake up from that dream and you know that this dream was important, or sometimes when the dream repeats many times. For example, I dreamed the same dream for some years, but I knew it was important. Interpreting these dreams means establishing a relationship with the subconscious. The subconscious has a language, the more we pay attention to these messages from the subconscious, the more we interpret and analyze dreams, the more the subconscious understands that it is a way to communicate. Then dreams begin to become significant. The first rule is to write down dreams, to keep a dream diary, this is the first rule. If you have a dream diary, each day you will remember better, the details, the particulars. Perhaps the first time you don't remember anything and write in the diary "I don't remember anything" and try to write the emotion or state of confusion you have, but try to establish a bridge between the conscious and the subconscious. Participant 7: And in relation to nightmares too? Also. The symbolic code of the subconscious is not so evident. This is why since antiquity dreams were interpreted, one needs to know how to interpret dreams. Some things are very easy to understand but some things are much more complicated, but there is an exercise that can be done which is to establish a relationship between conscious and subconscious: when you go to sleep, visualize the sun that rises, that rises like dawn, until noon, and when you wake up, you should visualize the same sun from noon to sunset. Thus a connection is established between the daytime self and the nighttime self, that is, the conscious self and the subconscious self. And little by little dreams begin to become significant.