Dreams: A Stairway into Unsconcious

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Do you dream vividly?  Perhaps your unconscious is trying to tell you something.

Dreams can be a window not only into your mind, but also into your body.  A wide variety of dream interpretation information is available, and of course the most well known dream interpreters were Freud and Jung.  Much of the current dream interpretation information is derived from their theories, but dream interpretation goes back as long as humans have been sleeping.

It was Hippocrates that postulated a connection between dream themes and problems like depression.  He theorized that people who dreamed of eating were trying to make up some deficiency in their waking life.  The people of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia inscribed their dreams for future reference, believing dreams were the gateway to the divine.

Often one will encounter a dream in a significant turning point in a myth or fable where the hero will be visited by a dream adviser to help him with a problem.

Do you record your dreams?  What significance do you think they have?