Hi Christine. If you have not already written about it, how about dreams and sex? I don’t mean wet dreams, but other dreams that have sexual meanings and experiences. It is very Freudian, worth some exposition.
—Dreaming of You
Dreaming: I’m no psych major. I’ve only directly encountered Sigmund Freud once, so I’m certainly no expert. And the one time I did read a bit of “The Interpretation of Dreams,” I didn’t get it.
Here’s the gist of what I understand from Freud: This dream is inevitably about your childhood. You’re longing for innocence again. Your mother screwed up. There’s also a phallic symbol somewhere in your dream, even if it’s not obvious.
For me, though, interpreting dreams is a very personal experience. You dreamed up the dream and your mind coded the images, so really the only expert on your dreams is you. That’s assuming, of course, that your dream even has any meaning. Like Freud said, sometimes a penis is just a penis. Or something like that.
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