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The symbolism in dreams is often simply 'borrowed' from recent events.
The first time the above dream occurred was after the woman had
been watching a television programme about sailing. The symbols
are rather arbitrary; it is the feelings in the dream which hold
the key to unlocking dreams and what they mean.
The feelings in the dream are usually an exaggeration of feelings
from the real-life issue which caused the dream. If you feel terror
in the dream think of when recently, in your waking life, you felt
a little frightened. Or if you laugh hysterically during a dream
look for a recent time when you found something funny but were maybe
constrained from laughing too uproariously.
When you find the dream's match it often feels like a 'clicking
into place' - like a perception rather than an intellectualisation.
In our opinion, anyone interested in dreams or psychology will be
fascinated and amazed by this book - The Origin of Dreams.
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