More often than not they are simply representative of change and transition. Ultimately, these kinds of dreams are often archetypal, speaking to the cyclical nature of life. Below, let's unpack the ...
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What's not as easy to explain is why we dream. How do we interpret those dreams, especially if they're bizarre or terrifying? Dreams are more common than you may think. On average, you have ...
Here’s what old Polish dream books have to say. At the end of Book Eight of Pan Tadeusz, Adam Mickiewicz wrote that sleep is the ‘brother of death’. This metaphor is not only an effective rhetorical ...
If you’re cynical by nature, it’s easy to scoff at the idea that these visions mean anything at all – but human beings have been trying to interpret their dreams for millennia. The ancient ...
In fact, most people believed dreams were just nonsense. It took Freud about two years to write The Interpretation of Dreams, finishing it in September 1897. It was published late in the year and ...