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Another dreams filled night

Had a series of bad dreams last night that continued till this morning. Friends parting ways, death approaching, fears  suffocating. Why do we have these dreams to rattle us up?
Happy Monday to you! 

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VNP said…
While Sigmund Freud used the 'Interpretation of Dreams' to advance his theory of the sub- and unconscious minds, therapy research believes dreams are a way to understand the emotional trajectory of the dreamer (e.g., see https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01553/full).

That having said, one can still question if the dream that you "remember" after waking up was something you indeed dreamt, or was it a retrospective projection back in time and made you believe? You may be a Freudian or a therapist depending on which side of the question you lean towards.

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