What Do My Dreams Mean?

Dream interpretation, or the study of one’s dreams, has become increasingly popular over the last few years due to the immensely increasing popularity and discovery of spiritual or self-study. This has posed the question to many people about whether or not our personal dreams do in fact have any meaning. It has been argued by popular researchers, scientists, and psychologists that our dreams serve no real purpose, however, others within the spiritual realm remain convinced that our dreams can reveal more to us than we could ever have imagined.

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology, believed that our dreams could reveal parts of our inner mind or psyche that are yet to be developed in our physical and conscious life. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist known as the father of psychoanalysis, suggested that what we experience in our own dreams are wishes that we consciously or unconsciously want to manifest in our present life. Calvin Hall, an American psychologist who studied in the field of dream interpretation, believed that our dreams are part of a cognitive process where our dreams serve as concepts of our current life and by analyzing our dreams we can uncover specific themes and patterns.