When you dream about flying, chances are you have lucid dreams. These kinds of dreams happen when you know that you are dreaming but then you can control your dreams. Some dreamers know that they are flying, and they can control where they are flying, and it makes them happy.

Control

When you are flying you can look around at the world around you and you will see that you are in charge of the situation, Flying can mean that you need to control what is going on in your life and have more power.

Perspective

Flying dreams can make you have a bigger perspective of things. When you look at your dream and you are flying you can see the world from a different perspective.

Freedom

Flying can cause your body to see that nothing is impossible. You can do anything and if flying is your possibility, it means so is freedom. You can see that you are strong and remember not to give up. No one can tell you what you can do in life.

Connection

When you fly it can mean that you are reaching for a bigger spiritual connection. Your growth can equal the flight you are taking.

Escape

When you dream that you are flying, it can mean that you are trying to get rid of the pressures in your life. Learn to confront your problems and let things go.

Sense of Self

When you are flying in your dream you will feel that nothing can stop you. Maybe you think you have it better than others and you are looking down on them.

Conclusion

When you are analyzing your dreams, you will need to look at how high and fast you are going. This can show how much confidence you have and flying backwards can mean that you are looking into your past.

Flying can be a positive thing and if you are afraid when you are flying then it can mean you are afraid of challenges. Maybe you aren’t ready for the next step and your flying dreams can show that you are not in control of what is going on in your life.

If you fly by power poles or mountains, you will see these as encounters and you will realize that there are things in your way that are preventing you from moving forward. Do not set unrealistic goals that you cannot meet.

One dream that is very popular is the falling dream. You might feel like you are falling from a building or from an airplane or from somewhere high in the air. Even though many people believe that you will die if you hit the ground before you wake up, that is not true. If you want to understand your dream, you need to understand what is going on in your life.

Loss of control

When you are falling, even in a dream, you have no control of what is happening. This can mean that you have something going on in your life that makes you feel out of control. Maybe you are in a job that is hard, or you have a bad relationship. You might have lost your way in everything life offers.

Insecure

If you fall in your dreams it means that you can lack security or confidence and you are not sure where you stand in life. Maybe there is a chance that you are losing your job or that you are feeling like you are not good enough. If you have a lot of things going on in your life, then you might dream of falling.

Recklessness

When you dream of falling, it can be a wake up for you because of your decisions that you are making. This can mean that you are going the wrong direction in life or you are falling from good things.

Sex

According to Freud when you dream of falling it can mean you have sexual impulses.

Physiology

Changes that happen in your body when you fall asleep can make you dream. This can cause you to feel that your body is jerking or make you twitch. The jolt can cause you to jerk and wake up.

Conclusion

If you want to interpret your dream, you need to see what is happening in your life. Have you lost control or felt like you are insecure? This can cause you to have a falling dream.

Dreaming about death can be scary and can make you think that you are dreaming about your own death. No one that has these dreams should be afraid and you will not die if you die in your dream. You need to understand why you have dying dreams so that you can figure out your emotions.

New Beginnings

When you dream that you die, chances are you are having changes in your life. This can be a new stage in your life in your spiritual being or leaving your past behind. If you are about to be divorced or married or you are getting a new job, you might dream of death. If you dream you faked your death, then you are taking control of your life and you want a new start.

If you dream that you rex died, then it can mean that you are ready to move on. The death can mean that you are seeing changes in your life and your relationship with your parents have gotten better. As a child gets older, they will begin to dream of death because they are growing and going into a new stage in life.

Part has Died

If you die in your dream, it can mean you are getting rid of bad habits or you have destructive behaviors. This can mean that you are ending something and not dying a real death. This can mean that you are wanting to repress something inside of yourself and that you are no longer wanting things in your life.

When you dream that someone has died and you have feelings about that person, it can mean change in your relationship with that person. If a stranger die in your dream it can mean that you are not being able to face the changes that are happening. If you dream a child dies, then it can mean that you are growing up and becoming more serious or it can mean that your inner child is at a void.

Wake Up

This kind of dream can cause you to wake up and give you attention to what is going on in your life. Maybe you need to take action and you need to figure out if you have a health problem or if you have unhealthy things in your life you need to fix.

Escape

When you dream of dying you might be trying to get rid of your regular routine in life. You might have things that stress you and you need to get out of something like a bad relationship.

Coping with Death

When you dream of death it can mean that you are worried about dying. It can mean that you will not know about death and that you feel that death is a taboo. If you think about your death, it can cause you to dream more.

Sacrifices

When you dream, it can be a symbolic dream meaning sacrifices and shows that you need to put others first.

Self-Sacrifice

When you dream that you are dying it can mean that you need to put yourself first instead of everyone else.

Missing Characteristics

When you dream that someone you love has died it can mean that you feel that the person that you are thinking of does not have a strong relationship with you.

Resentment

Dreaming about death can mean that you have resentment towards someone.

Already Dead

When you dream about someone that is already dead it can mean you are negative, and you are with the wrong crowd. This can help you to figure out your feelings and can also symbolize loss of materials.

If you dream of someone that has died a long time ago it can mean that you need to end a relationship. When you dream about someone that has passed away then it can mean that you are trying to really understand that they are really gone.

When you talk to someone that is dead in your dreams such as your mom and dad, it can mean that you are trying to cope with the loss and to tell them goodbye. When you dream of your dead siblings it can mean that you miss them, and you wish that you could spend another day with them.

Dreaming of a dead child can mean that you have lost a child and you do not understand why they died. You need to understand that when someone dies that your relationship with them is not dead it is just different. You can connect with other people and have stronger relationships.

Conclusion

When you dream of death, it usually is not a literal death but something symbolic. It often means that your life is changing, and things are going to be different.

Dreams where you dream you are being cheated on can make you feel that they are real to the point where you might go to your loved one and accuse them of cheating. Dreams like these are not fun to have and can leave you questioning your relationship. The truth is dreams like these are more about your own insecurities.

Neglect

If you have not attention from your significant other, then you will dream your partner is having an affair. This happens when they are not paying attention to you, so you think they are giving their attention to someone else. Chances are your partner is working more or traveling more and it is really innocent.

Fear of Abandonment

When you dream that your spouse is cheating on you it can be because you are afraid of being left. You might be worried about what the future holds and if your partner will be there for you. Maybe you want them to commit to you and you are dreaming this because you have been rejected by important people before.

Low Self-Esteem

If you have low self-esteem and you feel that you are not worthy, you might have dreams of cheating. This happens because you don’t feel that your partner has a reason to stay with you. You always think he or she will find someone better.

Trust

When you dream of cheating it could be because you have no trust in the relationship and it is full of doubt. This can cause an adulterous dream to happen.

Actually Cheating

Sometimes when you dream your spouse is cheating it is because they are. Your subconsciousness is picking up signals from them, and they are not really being truthful to you. Maybe you are in denial about them cheating.

Being the Cheater

When you dream that you are the one cheating, chances are you are having doubt and betraying something. It can mean that you are not being full of integrity and you might be thinking about cheating in life or being dishonest even more than against your spouse.

If you are having an affair with someone then this dream can be showing you that you are dreaming of what you desire such as money or power.

When you dream about cheating it can also mean you have sexual passions and you need to reaffirm your relationship with your partner. If this happens when you are about to be married, this is common because you are seeking a new sexual passion with your partner. This dream does not mean that you or your spouse is cheating or that you are about to marry the wrong person.

Another interpretation can mean that your needs are not being satisfied and you are beginning to look other places for pleasure.

Conclusion

Even though these dreams are not really about cheating, they are important to address so you can understand your emotions. If you feel that you are being neglected or you are not trusting your partner, you need to discuss these feelings and find out if your relationship can grow and if you need to look somewhere else.

Chasing dreams involved being chased and many believe that these come when you are stressed about your real life. When you have these dreams, chances are you are running from an animal or someone attacking you. It is possible that they are going to kill you or hurt you and you will respond by doing the fight or flight instinct. This is a time where you will naturally want to outsmart your chaser.

Avoidance

When you dreamed of being chased chances are you are avoiding things in your life. The dream is showing you how to respond to pressure and helping you to face your fears. Instead of facing the situation, you will more than likely run away from it.

Close-Minded

You might have a chasing dream because you are close-minded about different views and you refuse to accept them. You might not want to listen to other people that have different opinions than you.

Running from Yourself

Another way that you can analyze your dream is when you are running from your own self. Maybe you are rejecting feelings that you have, and you are avoiding the idea that you are jealous, anger or afraid of things such as love. You can put these feelings into being chased.

Fear

When you are running from your chaser, you might realize you are afraid of being attacked. Some of these dreams are more common by women than men because they feel vulnerable around men. You might have heard news about sexual assaults, and it causes you to dream.

You are the Chaser

If you have a dream that you are the chaser, this can mean that you are trying to go after what you want in life. This can mean you are falling behind and trying to catch up.

Conclusion

When you want to understand your dreams and why you are being chased, you need to figure out what you are running from. Ask your chaser why they are chasing you.

Close the distance between you and the chaser and this can mean you want to close the issue. If the chaser gains on you, it means the problem is not going away. The problem will eventually surround you until you address it.

If you make the gap wider, you are being successful in getting way from the problem. The problem might fade away.

Frederick Perls was born in 1893 and he was the founder of the Gestalt Therapy the Gestalt Therapy is when you look for help to fix your emotions where you have void so that you can feel whole. Perls believed that dreams were where people felt rejected and where they disowned who they were.

Dreams and Who You Are

He believed that all characters in your dreams represent who you are. If you dream about a tornado, you are the tornado, if you dream about a child, you are the child. You can even be a broken-down car or a book. He did not believe that dreams were universal or symbolic and he thought that dreams were different for each person.

Listen to Your Dreams and Find Out Who You Are

If you have to discover who you are after being disowned, Perls believed that you should retell your dreams in the present tense and act out the dream. He also believed that dreams are part of a symbolic meaning and that they are part of the universe. He thought that dreams were unique to each person and that is why they could discover themselves in the dreams.

When you have dreams, he felt that if you were able to look at each part of your dream and find out what it really meant then you could find out more about who you are. He felt that all of the rolls and characters in your dream were important and made an overall difference in what your dreams mean.

Your Dreams Make You Feel Better

He felt that talking about each part of your dream would leave you feeling better. He felt that you should reenact all parts of your dream and take on all of the different characters and objects. He felt that by starting a dialogue with the dream object that you could express what you are really feeling inside.

Everyone Acts Out in Dreams

When you take a different role in your dream and act it out, Perls believed that you could realize feelings that you have buried, and your dream will come alive. Even when you dream, Perls believed that it was important to tell your dream and to act it out in the present tense and not act it out in something that wasn’t realistic.

Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 and he believed that dreams happened in the unconscious mind. He did not feel that the mind was sexual but more spiritual. Jung thought that Freud had weird ideas on dreams.

Jung believed that dreams would help you communicate with yourself and your unconscious mind and that even if you are trying to hide your feelings when you are awake that you would know what you were really feeling by your dreams.

He believed that dreams help you to figure out how to be whole and to solve problems that you have while you are awake. Jung believed that your ego would help you understand your part in the world.

Jung thought that things could be paired in opposites such as women and men, good and evil, love and hate. He thought that your mind worked against the ego and called it the counter ego. He also called it the shadow self. The shadow was there so that you could reject parts of yourself that you did not want to face. He believed that the shadow was the primitive part of yourself and was considered strange and awkward.

Dream Interpretation

Jung believed that dreams were a way that you could communicate with your mind. He believed that images would reveal who you were and how you viewed other people. He felt that dreams could help to guide you and help you to grow to who you were meant to be.

Jung believed that dreams were there so that you could understand your life. By talking about your life and what is happening, Jung believed that you could interpret your dream images and that you could be more confident when you dreamed.

Jung believed that everyone dreams as a tool so that they can interpret what they are dreaming and there is no real way to interpret dreams. He believes that your dreams are a judgement of yourself and you interpret them the way that you feel is right and important. He doesn’t believe that what other people think matters.

• Archetypes

Jung believed that some dream symbols had the same meaning for men and women. He called these “collective unconscious.” He believed that your dreams are personal but some of the symbols and themes worked for everyone and that they worked the same in all cultures.

Jung identified there to be seven different characters that were collective for everyone including:  Persona, shadow, animal, divine child, wise old man, great mother and the truckers.

• Persona

The persona is when you are awake, and you are in the public. He believes you put on a mask but when you dream you are your real self. The self may not look like who you are or act like how you would act. An example would be that you might come as a poor person in your dream and even though he or she doesn’t look like you, that person represents you.

• Shadow

This part of your dreams represents yourself. It is the part of you that you don’t want the world to see because it seems ugly or gross. This is the part of you that is weak and angry.

When you dream, this person comes as a murderer or a stalker and it is really you. This person can be a scary figure or someone that is a friend or a relative. When you see them in your dream you might get scared and you will need to accept the images as who you are so that you can understand them.

• Anima/Animus

This is the male and female part of who you are. Everyone has both of these qualities and when you dream, it can be a feminized figure while the animus comes as a masculine form. You might dream that you are a man dressed as a woman or that you are a woman that grows a beard.

The dream images can come depending on the qualities that you have in yourself and they help to remind you that you can express your sensitive or masculine side.

• Divine Child

This is who you are in your purest form and is your innocence. You might feel vulnerable or that you are helpless, and this dream can leave you open to all things in life. This figure is shown as a child.

• Wise Old Man/Woman

This is a dream helper and can be a teacher, doctor, father or someone that seems to be in authority. They give you wisdom and help you to go the right direction in life.

• The Great Mother

This is the nurturer in your dream. She will come as your own mother or a grandmother or a lady figure. She will give you reassurance and sometimes will come in the form of a witch. This can mean dominance or death.

This can be rooted in the idea that a real mother gives life and can be jealous when you grow away from her.

• Trickster

The trickster is the one that plays jokes and tries not to take you too seriously. This can come as a dream when you misjudge a situation, or you take things too seriously.

The tricksters will make you feel embarrassed and sometimes will mock you or make fun of you and show what you are vulnerable in.

These kinds of dreams are called mythical dreams or grand dreams and they come when you are transitioning to something else in your life. These can leave you feeling like you learned something that was important about who you are, and they are dreams that normally stick with you for a long time.

Calvin S. Hall, Jr. was born in 1909 and he believed that dreams were full of content, and he did a study called “Content Analysis.” In his study, he thought that dreams were important in the cognitive process of thoughts. He believed that dreams were a map from the different regions of your brain, and this was called the unconscious mind.

Hall believed that dreams would help you discover what thoughts you had, and they could help to explain why you behave a certain way. He believed that dreams revealed hidden things about people, and he categorized dreams into five areas including concept of self, concepts of other people, concepts of the world, concepts of impulses, prohibitions and penalties, concepts of problems and conflicts.

Concept of Self

This is the type of roles that you play in your dreams.

Concepts of Other People

This is the stage of dreams where you see people in your dreams, and it depends on why they are there on how you interact with them.

Concepts of the World

This represents how you dream about the world around you such as your environment. Your dreams can help to describe how you see the world.

Concepts of Impulses, Prohibitions and Penalties

This can show how you behave to rules and punishment.

Concept of Problems and Conflicts

This shows the struggles that you have and the different situations that you face when you are awake in your life. The dreams that you have will show you how to solve your problems.

By using these different concepts, Hall believed that you could analyze your dreams and find out why they are in your unconscious mind.

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and he is considered the father of psychoanalysis. He believed that dreams could be interpreted and wrote a study called “Interpretation of Dreams.” Freud thought that if you could analyze dreams that you could understand the personality of someone. He believed that nothing ever happened by chance, but it happened because of your unconscious mind and how you think.

If you live in a society that is civilized, you can hold back the way that you act and not act on your impulses, but Freud believed that you had to be able to release these impulses in some way and that they sometimes came out as a disguise.

Freud believed that you could release these urges through dreams and then your unconscious mind would be content and would not do the harmful things. He believed that the unconscious mind would express itself with symbols.

He put dreams in three categories including the Id, Ego and Superego.

• The Id is the impulses and pleasures that you have and urges that you wish to do.
• The Ego has to do with your conscious mind and helps you to be more aware of your moral and your mind.
• The Superego is what censors the Id and is responsible for you being moral.

When you are awake, you have impulses and desires and they Id will not act on them because the Superego stops them. When you dream, you can get an idea of what your unconscious mind wants you to do but since your guards are not up when you dream, you have the opportunity to act on your impulses and desires through the Id.

The desires of the Id can be disturbing and since your body is no longer censoring them when you dream, your dreams might be more symbolic and disturbing. When your body takes these disturbing images, it helps you to not be shocked by the images because they come in symbols instead of regular form.

Freud believed that you have a hard time remembering your dreams because of the images being so disturbing that your unconscious mind blocks them.

Tools

Freud believed that dreams comes from different content and that there are ways that you can understand your dreams even when they do not make sense. The believes that the dream is trying to give you a look at your unconscious mind and that if you look at the content of your dream that you can figure out what your dream really means.

Using the tool called Free Association can help you to understand the symbols of your dream and you can try to figure this out and see what happens next.

When you try to interpret your dreams, you can see the interpretation like this:

• Displacement which means to desire one thing, but it shows up as a different kind of symbol.
• Projection is when the dreamer will try to get their own desires to someone else.
• Symbolization happens when the dreamer represses the urge to act out their desires in a metaphoric way.
• Condensation happens when the dream was hide what they are feeling and will have dream images. The dream images will not be obvious to the dreamer.
• Rationalization is the last stage of the dream stages and the dreams can help to organize in your mind and be more logical. This is called secondary revision.
• Freud believes that sexual dreams are the cause of what happens in your dreams. He believes that every elongated or slender object represents a phallus and any receptacle stands for the female genitalia.

Personality Development

Freud believes that there are five stages of a personality including: oral, anal, phallic, latency period and genital.

Oral/Dependency

This stage happens up the age of two and this is where the child will use their mouth to explore things. When they are not satisfied with this stage, it can lead to bad habits such as smoking or drinking because of their oral fixes. Having dreams that happen over and over again can mean that their needs were not met at this time.

Anal/Potty Training

This is the second personality stage, and this is when kids learn to control their body functions. When a child is traumatized about something during this stage it can mean that they will become anal retentive and controlling. Dreaming during this time can cause a child to have obsessive compulsive disorders. People in this situation will often have dreams that their life is out of control.

Phallic Stage

This stage happens between three to five years of age and this is when a child knows about their body and male and females. The personality is already developed, and this is also called the Electra Complexes or the Oedipus stage. The Oedipus stage is when there is a male child’s love for their mother, and they have jealousy of their father. The Electra of this stage is where the female child will love the father and be jealous of her mother. Some call this penis envy.

Latency Period

Nothing much happens during this stage and it is just getting older.

Genital

When kids are around twelve years old, they begin to go through puberty. This is a stage of sexual interest.

Freud believes that this is the stage where dream is a place where there can be fulfillment. If a person has problems with power or being out of control, this can come in their dreams and they can see what they need. This is a time where they will repress their thoughts and they will dream so they can be fulfilled.

Freud believes that each image or symbol that happens in a dream has to do with sex. Anxiety can mean that you are repressed from sex. Many believe that Freud was preoccupated with sexual imagery and he had his own relationship problems and that is why he came up with this theory.

Alfred Adler was born in 1870 and he believed that dreams would help people to control their lives, even when they were awake. He felt that dreams helped to solve problems and would come so that people could better understand the problems that they had.

Learning Your Dreams

Adler felt that learning your dreams and learning to work them into your life could help you to make a connection between the problems that you have and how you deal with them. When you dream more, Adler felt that you had more problems in your life and the less dreams that you dreamt meant that you have less problems and are healthier in your mind.

Controlling Dreams and Behavior

Adler thought that you could use dreams to control your behavior and that people that did not control their behaviors were controlled by their unconscious mind. He felt that people that wanted to work towards perfection and needed to be in control of their life did things that they did for a purpose because the unconscious and conscious mind did not work together.

Adler felt that the unconscious and conscious mind fought against each other, and they would work rather you were sleeping or awake.

Dreams and Thoughts

Dreams were the pathway to your thoughts, according to Adler and he believed that dreams brought out your real emotions and how you act. Your dreams can help you meet your desires, but they also cause people to overcompensate for things that they are not good at in life.

Feeling Accepted in Society

If you cannot stand up to your bully while you are awake, you can stand up to them while you are dreaming, and this can make you feel accepted in society and help you to have more happiness.

Final Thoughts

Knowing and understanding your dreams is important. Dreams can tell a lot about a person and about what they are thinking and feeling. When you have vivid dreams and you have strong feelings, these things can mean something important for your life.