Sigmund Freud is remembered for a lot of things—and unfortunately, for a lot of wrong things. He is the butt of almost all yo’ mama jokes and is mocked in memes, but here’s the thing: Sigmund Freud will outlive all his critics and the social media memes aimed at him because he said several things nobody had ever said before, thought about things nobody had ever thought about before, and gave dreams a whole new meaning.
Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams still is, to this day, one of the most iconic books on dream interpretation and understanding.
And there’s much you can learn from him.
The Weird and the Wonderful
For Freud, dreams are a key to something deeper—someplace far more precious that we give it credit for. It is in dreams that we find the strangest images and most random people. People you haven’t seen or even thought about in years will randomly show up in your dream on a horse while you ride a mule behind them, riding on water like Jesus walked on water, and you’re both dressed for prom night.
Sounds like complete garbage?
Not to Sigmund Freud.
Interpreting Dreams: Understanding the Unconscious
Freud—and other psychoanalysts who worked in the same strain—would say that you must have come across something that reminded you of the person you haven’t seen in eons who showed up in your dream. Perhaps you passed them on the street without noticing them or might have seen their name in a Facebook feed and not registered it.
The conscious part of your brain didn’t register it—but the unconscious part did.
Similarly, you might have seen a horse on a random TV ad, maybe heard a colleague talk about their trip to the Niagara Falls, and you might have seen your child draw a mule in their notebook. These are completely unrelated events, but they come together in your brain because your unconscious remembers it.
Your brain stores everything you come across at all times. Only, it would be too deafening for your head if you were cognizant of everything all the time, and so it is relegated into the realms of the unconscious.
And from there, it spills out in your. . .
Dreams: A Place of Fear and Desire
Freud tells us that the dream is where everything we repress comes back—it spills out. There are things we dare not admit or even acknowledge to ourselves: such as love for someone you can’t be with or hatred for someone you can’t kill. Your consciousness is afraid to even bring these deep, dark desires to light—but your unconscious is a no-holds-barred crazyland. It’s Arkham Asylum—only, all the inmates are Joker clones.
Anything that you have consciously denied admitting to yourself: such as strange encounters with bizarre entities in the night, can spill out into your dreams. It’s your mind’s way of cleansing itself to be at peace—just as you feel better after you have cried.
If we were to explain Freud’s Dream Interpretation theory in two lines, they would be these:
Stars, hide your fires
Let not light see my black and deep desires
Not Happy Hiding Your Fires?
If you feel like your dreams have become too troubling lately, and that you can’t deal with the images and scary entities you see therein anymore, reach out to spiritual healer and channeler Karl Mollison. He might be able to unveil some of the hidden truths that are plaguing you.