Dream Terminology
Amplification Freud used the process of reduction to interpret dream, but Jung preferred to expand on the symbolism in dreams […]
Dream Themes
Dream Themes
There are many common themes, or subjects, to dreams that people all over the world share. Some of the dream commonalities are for obvious reasons, like teeth falling out for example. Everyone has teeth, unless you already lost them all, and everyone worries about losing them.
In fact, as humans, we all lose one set of teeth during childhood, so it’s no wonder at all that dreaming your teeth are falling out is one of the most common dream themes for people all over the world!
Here is a long list of dreams that are common across many cultures, ages and genders – some of them may surprise you, some not so much. Hopefully you will find the list helpful, even if for nothing else than realizing you’re not the only one dreaming these things!
Dream Scenery
Like a movie or a play, all dreams need a stage setting, a physical place for your dreams to occur.
Dream Themes
Colors and Dreams
Our dreams deal with all the senses, but visual perception is by far the most common, though dreams in color
Dream Archetypes
Carl Jung identified the dream archetypes as the basic building-blocks of the imagination. Stored in an area of the mind
Dream Themes
Collective Unconscious
Between 1909 and 1913 Carl Jung was a friend and follower of Freud, the famous psychoanalyst and dream expert; and
Children’s Dreams
It may surprise you to know that it is thought children begin dreaming even before they are born. A large
Books and Dreams
Dreaming of books, looking at books, learning from books and reading from books is a dream theme that perhaps we
Baby Dreams
When you have a dream with a baby in it, or dream that you are a baby, it doesn’t usually
Bad Dreams and Nightmares
The nightmare was originally defined as a feeling of suffocation or great distress felt during sleep. Many of us will
Anxiety Dreams
Many dreams represent anxiety in one form or another. Anxiety in excess can make it difficult to even get to