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Recurring dreams
By Gianfranco Casalis
Dreams have always fascinated human beings who question their meaning and while in ancient times the dreams were believed to have a future prophetic ability, but nowadays we know that our oneiric world contains important messages that originate from our unconscious, often overwhelmed by an existential dimension that is definitely rationalist. But Freud and Jung teach us a great lesson on the ghosts which inhabit our oneiric life.
Dreams are a psychic process characterised by perceptions, emotions, patterns of thought relative to situations, persons or objects lived as if they were real, in which the characteristics of daily experience are decidedly changed. Our oneiric life is presented as completely governed at the laws of affectivity that leave aside rationality, the social rules, in which time and space are lived as if they are unreal and whose symbolic value is recognised from ancient times.
According to psycho-analysts many dreams are not remembered because they are weighed down by negative elements that are difficult to accept. Without doubt dreaming is of fundamental importance for our mental health. Dreams are a staging of a series of emotions and of states of mind that activate our internal theatre in which the ghosts in our unconscious world are expressed in full freedom, able to express themselves freely without inhibitions and regard but that are instead the main characteristics of our rationality.
Sometimes they are remembered and sometimes not, but without doubt there are remembered especially the nightmares, the afflicted dreams and those that are pleasant. Recurrent dreams are those that present themselves often, but what we tend to remember in terms of dreams depends above all on the interest that we have for our oneiric life.
We are often surprised we have recurrent dreams which are the result of our desires, anxieties and worries that they have not been understood and keep on knocking unceasingly at the door of the unconscious. Many of us have lived the experience of recurrent dreams probably in moments of difficulty, of crisis and change. Our emotions, our anguishes and fears are projected on the stage of our oneiric life. The unknown is peculiar, what we do not know causes anxiety to us, our dimension "Darkens", banished in the darkness of our unconscious psychic life.
some dreams recur a number of times in the life of a person and often they are similar to dreams that have already been experienced , for the times with little elements that change or that reproduce a slow development of what we have already encountered. Recurrent dreams are important for our psychic life because they push us to pay attention to something in depth that happens in the darkness of our being, like obstacles and difficulties that can block or slow our psychological development down. These difficulties are like energy obstructions, blocks, hindrances that can distort our psychic development and that press insistently and claim their right of being recognised and receiving. Such dreams can represent our need of coming out of indecision or inactivity to interrupt things that keeps on stagnating in the secrets of our most profound life.
The unconscious is the land of the creativity, of energy and resources that we still do not know and dreams are that psychic phenomenon that let us express this vital energy. Dreams maintain their energetic value even when we do not remember them and to remember a dream enriches our daily life.
Some authors assert that the fact of remembering dreams and withholding message reduces the influence of psychosomatic diseases. Such diseases are a manner that the unconscious uses to make its contents known when it does not have other manners with which it can make itself known.
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