Tag Archives: Interpreting Dreams

Dream Interpretation – Dreams of Food

This is one of a series of articles that will help you understand the meaning of dreams that prey on your conscious mind. The ancient Greeks saw dreams as either omens or foretellings of nature. In dreams, imagery tends to be symbolic, representing events, difficulties and events that are yet to come. Scenes, people and […]

A Brief History of Dream Interpretation

People have paid attention to their dreams and sought to understand them for thousands of years. In ancient cultures around the world, dreams were seen as divinely inspired or gifts from the gods that brought important news. Profession and priestly dream interpreters and oracles worked for emperors, kings and other kingdoms, seeking to know or […]

Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams: A Handbook for Artists, Not Psychologists

Say the name Sigmund Freud and the first thing that comes to mind is a patient lying in bed in a psychiatrist’s office. Interestingly, Sigmund Freud’s seminal works and theories are rarely used in the world of psychiatry today, at least not in any pure and simple sense. But Freud’s theories remain at the forefront […]

Meanings of the Teeth Falling Out Dream

“Dream about teeth falling out.” That’s a pretty popular search term when comes to people searching online for dream meanings. Turns out, it’s a popular ‘˜what do dreams mean’ related search because teeth falling out also one of the most common dreams people experience. Interpreting dreams is highly subjective, almost like reading the daily horoscope. […]

Sigmund Freud: Dream Interpretation

Freud is one of the most famous social scientists of the twentieth century and has had a lasting and profound effect on it. Even today, most Americans, if not most citizens of the world are familiar with ideas like the id, ego, superego, Oedipus complex and a variety of other psychological terms. In addition to […]

Using Freudian Interpretations in the Film Blue Velvet

The probing psychological detective drama Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch, is a surrealistic portrayal of a convoluted blend of perverse and erotic elements of desire; desire that is inflicted with the pain and satisfaction of extreme sadomasochism. The eroticism as it exists in the conscious and unconscious minds of the protagonists makes itself readily […]

Dream Interpretation – Travel in Dreams

The ancient Greeks saw dreams as either omens or foretellings of nature. In dreams, imagery tends to be symbolic, representing events, difficulties and events that are yet to come. Scenes, people and things cannot necessarily represent themselves. It is important to remember that some symbols mean one to one, and one to another, therefore when […]