Which Of Our Dreams Are Important?

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How Do We Know Which Of Our Dreams Are Important?

by David Rivinus

The most important dreams we have are those that are the most intense. When we dream during sleep, our dream messages have to filter their way through several states of awareness. Anyone who has kept a dream journal knows how tricky it can be to bring the memory of a dream to full consciousness. Some dreamers work diligently to remember dreams, so their dream recall is good. Many others are less interested and miss the majority of their dream messages.

Nevertheless, dreams are a vital source of communication. At times, the messages they bring to us are not to be ignored. Even among those who disregard dreams, the dreams themselves make a heroic effort to attract attention. They do so by going to extremes. The images they present become particularly bizarre or emotionally intense. In the most dramatic cases, dreams become terrifying nightmares.

It isn’t that the dreams are trying deliberately to be unpleasant; they simply want to be remembered. Most likely, the message an intense dream delivers is one that has come to the dreamer before in a gentler manner, but it has been overlooked.

For example, suppose someone needs to change his penchant for avoiding important decisions. He has a dream in which he finds himself holding a thick file folder with the word PENDING prominently stamped on the front of it. As he is glancing at it, he happens to look around his office and sees that the entire room is stacked floor to ceiling with similar folders, and he thinks to himself, “Boy, in an earthquake, this could be bad!”

Perhaps, the dreamer remembers this dream and is amused by the odd imagery. Maybe he lives in a location that is not likely to experience an actual tremor, so he dismisses the possibility of an earthquake as silly, not realizing that the dream is referring to his own potential personal shakeup. Maybe he doesn’t remember the dream at all, since he is not inclined to pay attention to such frivolous things. His attitude of avoiding important pending decisions persists, and his subconscious continues to send alarm messages, trying to motivate him to shift his behavior pattern. Eventually, as this pattern reaches a crisis point, his subconscious sends a message that he simply cannot ignore.

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