If you dreamt about something and then experienced the same or a similar situation in real life, your subconscious might be trying to convey something to you in that way…
Dreams offer us an escape
The famous Swiss psychiatrist and Freud’s student Carl Gustav Jung had a series of dreams in which a monstrous flood covered all northern lands, and then the water turned into blood. The dream was accompanied by a voice saying that this was “completely real and that it would be so.” He began to dream this in 1913 and stopped in June 1914. In August of that same year, World War I began. Jung then realized that the dreams were not personal and related to humanity as a whole.
Archetypal dreams
After analyzing a large number of his own and others’ dreams, Jung comes to the idea of the existence of the transpersonal, or collective unconscious, which represents a treasury of the total spiritual experience of our ancestors, passed down from generation to generation.
According to Jung, dreams can provide access to the collective unconscious and offer insights into knowledge with which we have never had contact, as well as into the future. Archetypal dreams are quite rare and difficult to interpret because they are symbolic; usually, people only realize what the dream intended to convey when the event actually occurs, just like in Jung’s case. But what about a dream that comes true almost literally?
The power of the subconscious
Our subconscious is a much wiser part of our personality than the conscious mind and holds a much larger amount of information. It knows things that we consciously choose to overlook, making them practically non-existent for us. For example, a divorced woman whose entire life revolves around her sixteen-year-old only son tells everyone that he is a “golden child.”
The mother finds justification for all his outbursts, which are not uncommon. At some point, she starts frequently dreaming that her son is a drug addict. These dreams are unpleasant, but she views them as complete fiction with no connection to reality, until she receives a call from the police station. Then she learns that her son has been arrested for drug possession. After that, she realizes that her dreams were prophetic and that she is connected to her son in a special way.
The true meaning is reached through psychotherapy
Things, of course, are a bit different. Our subconscious often points out the mistakes we make in waking life and the consequences we can expect as a result of our actions and behaviors through unpleasant and nightmarish dreams. Psychotherapy can help in gaining these insights.
Unfortunately, in our regions, going to a psychologist is still a taboo subject, so people are not aware of the true meaning of dreams and still resort to dream dictionaries.