Freud believed that Dreams are the royal Road to our Unconscious Minds.

In his book The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud suggested that the content of dreams is related to wish fulfillment. Freud believed that the manifest content of a dream, or the actually imagery and events of the dream, serve to disguise the latent content, or the unconscious wishes of the dreamer.

I have read some of Freud's and Jung's work on dreams, as well as other theories about what dreams might mean. I am very far from being reliable about this, but we can have some fun. Post your dream and I will try to come up with the possible interpretation of this dream (mainly from psychoanalytic/Freudian/Jungian perspective, but I might use other theories as well if I think they are applicable. So, this is how it's going to work - pretty simple:

1) You post your dream (it can be the last dream you had, or a dream that you remember really well) - doesn't have to be too detailed, but the more detail - the better.
2) I will try to decide which theory would best explain this dream and post the interpretation based on that specific theory. (my interpretations will most likely be quite short, because I really am just an amateur at this).
3) If anyone else is into dream interpretation, has taken classes in psychology, psychoanalysis or related fields, please feel free to jump in and analyze the dreams. It would be nice if some of you volunteered in advance and let everyone know that you are willing to participate as dream-interpreters, so that the posters are aware of your expertise.
4) Feel free to begin...



Disclaimer: Scientists still do not agree what dreams mean exactly and why we are dreaming. Plus, we all have heard that many psychoanalytic concepts have been rebutted lately. So, please do not take these interpretations as undeniable truth!

My last dream was that I was playing Flappy Bird in class and my teacher took my phone, smashed it, and then called my mom, but she was in the shower so she told me to walk home.

One dream I remember is when I was falling off a cliff then I woke up. It felt so real.

You're not really giving much here lol. But, usually, the sensations of falling in dreams are associated with low self-esteem and lack of control. It does not necessarily mean that you have low self-esteem in general, but maybe on that specific day you felt unfulfilled, or just plain bad.

Hmm, it seems like the first part of your dream is pretty straightforward. Let me guess, you are into Flappy Bird these days eh? (I don't even know what game is this, but I'm hearing about it all the time).

It gets interesting with the teacher. Teachers and other figures of authority probably represent our super-egos, the controlling part of our psyche, which does not let us express all of our negative emotions or aggression, or sexual energy. So it seems like you are trying hard to control your dark impulses, or maybe even already acted upon them (been having kinky sex lately?), and your superego is ashamed for you and trying to control you through the images of your angry teacher + mom.

The part about mom being in a shower kind of gets incestual, but I don't wanna get into that, I wouldn't know what I'm talking about.

Honestly I believe ur dreams r just ur mind being a mess and mixing up all your thoughts and experiences etc

Alright I don't usually remember my dreams or dream at all but last night I dreamed that I hugged someone I'm sort of attracted to and I said goodbye. We don't have a close relationship so that was awkward.

Once I dreamed I was chased by a bull and a year ago or so I also dreamed someone was trying to shoot me. A tornado too. There's like a trend, someone is trying to get me. But how and why? You Freudian people explain! (Please )

There was the one where I accompanied Jhene Aiko to Drake's Grammy afterparty at which point he sat me down @ a table and split in half a heart shaped cookie and gave it to me.

not recent but i remember that dream vividly, its kinda weird
i was running from a dog, it was a small dog ... than i saw a man with with long black beard and a blue cloak and and a small blue hat, it kinda looked like a priest (assumed it was a Jewish Priest), he had a small paper attached in his forehead in which was written the number "888" and he had the dog that was chasing me tied in his hand. Than his legs started moving and was walking in air very fast, Katy ha impact . Than i walked (semi floating) and was going to my house.

That's one of the theories about dreams.

But why does your mind come up with those specific weird images? I believe it could be slightly more complicated than just saying it's all a mess and really random. We do tend to dream a lot about the experiences of the previous day. This is already a sign that dreams are a structured phenomena to a degree.

I had a dream where I was in college and my room was full of rats, looooooong snake like rats, and small ball rats. They were all over the place, so I reported it.
I came back after a while and rats were dying after being poisoned, so the cleaning lady put them all inside a bick black bag

OK...last night's dream - pretty straightforward. You find someone attractive - you see them in a dream. Simple. You have to remember, Freud believed that MOST of our dreams are of sexual nature. So, if you see someone that you are sexually attracted you, it's not a substitute image or a symbol for something else. It's that person.

Chased by a bull - having problems coming to terms with sexuality.
Someone trying to shoot you: guns are supposedly the #1 symbol for pen!s. You're thinking about that D, good mister.
Tornado - not sure. Most likely, a turbulent, messy time in your life. Don't have anything specific tbh.

Jung > > > Freud

I think Freud got hung up too much on sex and death. I use Jung and most his theories on the collective unconscious tho. Freud was too clinical in his focus on psychology and his focus on dysfunction during childhood development, but great when it comes to psychopathology. I just don't know how relevant the eros and thanatos are applicable to dreams. Because I think there is more to life than sex and death.

Jungian psychology is the tea when it comes to dream analysis if you want to tap into the archetypes and their creative themes, but not really helpful when dealing with major mal-adjustment.

But I want to help work dreams and share my dreams. I used to part of a dream-group in undergrad that was mostly informed from the Jungian perspective.

When I do dream work, I don't try to assign my interpretations of someone's dream, but I will interpret the dream as if it were my own and tell you my associations with the dream. I think this kind of work should be more of a collaboration with the dreamer being the expert and we can give you our impressions.

idk. Sounds like you are a romantic soul and really crave for love/relationship. Plus your obsession with the pop culture shows even in a dream.

It's basically the premise to what I've read about judgment day according to Islamic belief unfolding upon the Earth. The sun is on the other side, there is a heavy smog lingering about the air, and there's this distinctive trumpet/horn blown by the end. This is happening whist I'm looking out my aunt's old balcony.

Oh, and there's another one. I was on a school bus/boat thing sailing through a severly flooded town. The bottom of the boat was shaped oddly and was elevated higher than usual. All the windows were open and people were just quietly gazing outside of them. We finally spotted a small, grassy island with an old looking building built on it. We went on the lawn and just sat there... Gazing into the water.

Sounds again like a theme of guilt vs punishment. The Jewish priest is your super-ego trying to keep you in check from your dark thoughts impulses. (Semi)-floating in a dream is a sign of increased self-confidence, so you feel better whenever your super-ego is in control and you don't follow your impulses. You have good self-control I'd assume.

"888" could be an interesting clue. But you have to understand what it means yourself. Just play around with some important numbers in your life. See if you come up with 888 somehow.

I don't know. But I pretty often have softcore medium nightmares - nothing extremely scary, but I just dream of being in awfully depressing and stressful and discomforting situations that I wake up glad to not actually be in.

This seems really interesting. I haven't had any dreams recently that I remember, but I'll post some old ones.

One dream took place in the middle of the night inside of my house (everything was the same). I think my grandparents were over in the dream(?). We were hiding from what was inside our garage; our garage was filled to the brim with multicolored neon mice. It was very odd, but not very scary.

OOOK. Seems like you moved past a significant hurdle at that point. Killed off a lot of your internal demons. Good riddance, sis. Don't really have much to add. Not familiar with this imagery.

I am just an amateur, doing it for fun. It seems like you have good experience. Your contributions would be very much appreciated I'm sure. Wanna try it with a few posters in this thread?