Meaning of dreams: how to interpret our most frequent dreams?

How to decipher our dreams?

Here are the meanings of our 7 most frequent dreams.

LOSE YOUR TEETH

This is undoubtedly the most common dream

Teeth are important because they represent the image of our desire to live.

Don't they say “Bite life to the fullest” ?

Depending on the type of dream you have, several interpretations are possible.

• If you lose a tooth/feel your teeth moving, turning : temporary fatigue, loss of vitality, anger that leaves us

• If you lose ALL your teeth : important change, a transformation to come

• If bleeding accompanies tooth loss : symbolizes the loss of a loved one such as a sudden breakup of a friendship for example

• If your teeth are crumbling or breaking : this represents stress, anger, there is an urgency to take care of oneself.

• If your teeth are damaged : this implies a health problem

• Seeing yourself with rotten teeth : here it is synonymous with failure

• To see oneself toothless : an inability to achieve a goal

FINDING YOURSELF NAKED IN A PUBLIC PLACE

Have you ever found yourself dreaming of being in the middle of a big boulevard in your underwear?

Struggling to hide what you can hide with your hands?

Rest assured, you do not have unfulfilled desires for exhibitionism.

The symbolism here of course is to make people aware of their vulnerability.

You are looking to assert your authenticity and show that you exist.

If people in your dream are indifferent to your nudity, this represents your lack of self-esteem, and the fear of the gaze of others as a result.

Because naked as a worm, you lose your appearance and your protection.

This is in the face of the daily weight that other people's gaze can have on you.

This dream can therefore be a good sign because it can be intended to alert you to assert yourself a little more.

This kind of dream can happen before an important event: exam, job interview, etc.

TO BE PROSECUTED

This dream, also very common, has several possible interpretations.

For Freud, these dreams of pursuit are associated with the dreamer's anxiety in real life.

The latter would struggle to confront his fantasies and his desires.

The warning that this dream gives is to let go so that this internal conflict ceases.

For CGJung, being pursued is in some way being pursued by a part of yourself that you seek to escape, that you do not accept.

Finally, for oneirologist George Romey, this dream indicates that it is time to confront the avoidant situations in your life and take responsibility.

DEAD

Dreaming of death is a symbol of the passing of time.

This would represent an end to a trial or period of life and a new beginning.

Although it may be scary, and may give the impression that it is a bad sign, not necessarily.

Several possible meanings here too

• Dreaming of one's own death / seeing oneself die : represents a huge personal change coming (new job, marriage, moving etc.)

This is therefore a dream of good omen, because it is the symbol of an accomplished transformation.

• Dreaming of dead people : we come here to fill an emotional void

The presence of these deceased in your dreams brings comfort. They come to guide you, they are often represented as guardian angels.

• Dreaming of the death of a loved one : represents the anxiety of loss or illustrates the process of separation, the mourning of an intense relationship

• Seeing a dead person in his bed : here, it is a harbinger of a breakup. Indeed, the bed is an intimate place and death here symbolizes the sadness of the heart

• Touching a dead person : announces a possible loss of money

• See the grim reaper : very positive dream because it is a sign of wealth, success, luck

TO FALL

If this feeling of falling occurs in the first 5-10 minutes of falling asleep, you tend to wake up with a start. Like an instinct for life and survival. Because you are in a state of loss of control and falling into the unconscious.

Falling often also symbolizes feelings of loneliness and lack of support especially when you are facing big problems in real life.

Falling can also indicate that you are on a dangerous path and need to review your judgment.

• A fall into the void may reflect a failure you are facing.

• Falling down the stairs is a sign of danger that must be feared.

• A fall into a hole warns you that troubles await you.

• See yourself falling into the water in a dream means that you are drowning under the constraints and difficulties of everyday life and that you cannot resurface.

• A fall from a roof portends financial worries, current or future.

• For a woman, the dream of falling can also occur when she is victim of sexual harassment.

SNAKE

The snake represents desire, your libido, sexual energy

It can represent death as well as life.

Resurrection and renewal are also its symbols through its frequent changes.

According to Freud, the snake is like a phallic symbol, or one can see in it a masculine figure, a desire for carnal union.

If you dream of being bitten or stung by a snake : sexual energy turns against you.

However, each shade of the snake has its meaning:

Green snake : healthy life

White snake : spiritual energy

Red and yellow snake : natural passion, understanding

Red snake : devastating passion, toxic love

Black snake : danger caused by your unconscious in terms of romantic relationships

Red and black snake : cruelty from your lover

This type of dream also often appears in times of crisis, to alert you to take care of your health, your body and follow your instinct.

But here again, different meanings exist depending on where the snake is, what it looks like, what it does.

EX

You still think about him but it's rare that it's because you ultimately miss that person.

The ex represents a part of yourself.

We all have a masculine and feminine part and the ex thus represents your masculine part.

It also allows you to reconnect with yourself.

Dreaming about your ex is a symbol, it often embodies someone other than your ex as such.

However, there may be a blockage linked to the past. if you dream about it often

In fact, this often results in mourning the breakup that you do not accept.

Dreaming of making love with your ex can sometimes also reveal sexual dissatisfaction.