Characters, places, objects… do the images we encounter during our nights have a meaning? Yes, if you know how to read these symbols and make them the triggers for personal reflection. First steps to get started.
An animal, a car, a wad of banknotes… Each of our dreams revolves more particularly around an image. Drawn both from the unique story of the dreamer, but also from his cultural environment – “the collective unconscious”, according to Jung –, these “dominant” images symbolize his strongest desires, needs or concerns of the moment.
The writer and journalist Hélène Renard, a specialist in dreams, has developed an original method of interpretation nourished by psychoanalysis and symbolism. As a working basis, she offers the dreamer to say to himself when he wakes up: “I had a dream of…” Spontaneously, answers are needed: “animal”, “money”, “tunnel”… This will be the dominant image. When several strong images overlap, she recommends to see more clearly to title the dream. For example, you dreamed of a cat, a car, and a trip. What title would you choose? If it’s “Le chat qui part”, that’s what will dominate in your interpretation.
These dominant images are keys offered to the dreamer to gain self-knowledge, to better understand the emotions and desires that run through him. They give the “the” of each dream and the fundamental direction of interpretation. We have chosen to present to you the seven most recurring themes according to Hélène Renard, and the questions that may arise from them. These are only leads to question you, but you will be able to find others, more personal and related to your news. Because everyone knows intuitively which areas of his life “his” images come to illuminate.
The House
Symbol of our inner life, it represents both the body and the psychic life of the dreamer. Its dream representation therefore corresponds to the way you perceive yourself overall. Dilapidated, messy, it may indicate that you are going through a “messy” period of life, and that you should perhaps question your habits, your relationships, your lifestyle…
Evolving in an unfamiliar house can reveal a certain lack of self-knowledge: what parts of your history, what facets of your personality do you leave in the shadows? Similarly, empty rooms can evoke personal resources that are not yet explored. Each piece also corresponds to a particular symbolism. The kitchen is the place par excellence of transformation and evolution, it is in this room that the raw material is worked and refined. She suggests that a change may be needed to move forward. We can also read in this image an invitation to be more active and more enterprising in his personal life.
The appearance of toilets can evoke a need to break free. What in your life becomes suffocating and needs to be let go? What belief, what emotion, what relationship? The bathroom, a place of cleaning and purification, can express in the dreamer the desire to cleanse part of his life to gain vital energy. Is it a way of life to be arranged differently, a relationship to be clarified?
The bedroom evokes, unsurprisingly, marital and sexual relations.
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Apparitions, omens… Our dreams reveal what seeks to emerge in us and help to question us. Find our interview with Anne Dufourmantelle: “Dreams are like a problem-solving machine”
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