It is often a struggle to get used to the fact that your beloved ones, who were once alive and next to you, are no longer around. People can experience the traumatic aftermath of losing a parent, close friend, partner or relative for quite a considerable time. Such uncomfortable situations also reflect on your dreams…
A “visitation dream”, as it is known among psychologists and dream specialists, is a vivid and memorable dream about the deceased. Visitation dreams are the kind of dreams we remember for the rest of our lives, which is why they can be regarded as a highly potent form of what Carl Jung termed “big dreams.”…
When you’re going about your day, do you ever get a strange feeling that you’ve already dreamed about that moment you’ve just experienced?
This sensation, which is not to be confused with déjà vu, which is a feeling of having already experienced the present situation, is known as déjà rêvé. Some argue that the dreams…
Two of the founding figures of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, were fascinated with dreams as windows into the unconscious mind, believing they were representations of our deepest wishes and desires.
This was remarkable because many people had long thought that sleep was a state of rest and inactivity for…
Have you ever wondered how much our subconscious influences our dreams? This topic has always been an interesting question for scholars. Considering this, we should also try to understand how the psychology of human beings functions to bring the subconscious into the stage.
How much is the subconscious responsible for dreams?
As we noted…
Recent research suggested that recurring dreams are more popular than they are thought to be, as between 60 to 75 percent of American adults experience them from time to time. Considering the massive influence of dreams in our daily lives, we should understand how they interact with our mentality. Therefore, understanding…
Vivid dreams are almost the opposite of lucid dreams. In lucid dreams , the dreamer is aware that they're in a dream, sometimes even they may have control of it. On the other hand, vivid dreams feel real, but the dreamer is not conscious as they have a lucid dream. Vivid dreams may…
We all know how important it is to get a good night's sleep. Remember Edward Norton's character from the 1999 classic Fight Club? Without sleep, you can't concentrate, your immune system weakens, and a problem, no matter how small, can send you into a fit of rage.
All stages of sleep are crucial; however, …
It makes you feel “incomplete” every time you don’t solve a problem, don’t conclude a task or don’t finish a movie. You can keep thinking about it for a long time, right? Because we all wonder “what if”s, and we love “what if”s so much. What if you completed that task you couldn’t find enough…
Have you ever noticed that your dreams sometimes follow each other, and your sleeping schedule is like a high tensioned television series or movie sequels? Indeed, it is common to have dreams that continue one after another. Understanding continuous dreams requires a comparative approach, which will distinguish the features of such dreams that…