Across time and culture, people have been fascinated by their dreams. Dreams are a window into the unconscious mind, revealing thoughts, feelings, and desires that might be hidden from the conscious self. Dreams can offer insights and guidance for personal growth, and can be valuable a help in your counseling.
Learning how to understand your dreams can help you understand your inner world and unconscious motivations, help to process unresolved emotions and traumas, lead to a more integrated and balanced self, and inspire creativity and problem-solving.
Nightmares typically have stories that are so scary it awakens you or makes you dread returning to sleep. They are common during times of crisis, after trauma, or at a time of transition or physical sickness. Learning how to understand the message of the nightmare can help the intensity to lesson so you don't have to fear going to sleep.
Dream interpretation is one tool that can be used in therapy. If you are interested in understanding your dreams, start writing them down, and talk about them in your counseling session.