knows exactly what really upsets you. It wants you to lead your focus on a certain matter which is of paramount importance for your development. The cavalry of the King would not let it happen, too that the royal carriage, which should represent the way of life, will be tripping over a stone, racing into a broken tree on the way, crawling into a death bringing ambush or steering straight into deep morass. The residential dream-power wants you to gain further development. It will never stop trying to present you an old trauma, until you react. It wants to show which way is the right one for you and which is totally offbeat. With the help of the dream-power, you can recognize the real faces in your personal environment and learn to analyse your own feelings within the relationships.
In which way do daily experiences have an influence on the dream-power? The things you are going through while you are awake, will be compared with the material stored in the sub-consciousness. If there are discrepancies or similarities between the situation of today and experiences of the past time, the sub-consciousness reacts upon. It seems to be logical. The sub-consciousness likes to be well informed at all times about the changes in your environment in order to prepare you - and this way the ego - for the upcoming circumstances. A striking example: If, all of a sudden a war breaks out, it needs to prepare you for the danger you are in, and that you are likely not to receive everything you are used to get. Actually it is quite clear why this happens. If not, one may otherwise been driven to despair by the new situation. One would probably not be equipped well enough to search for solutions or to simply refuge. Caused by an impressing experience in the presence, the sub-consciousness starts researching firstly, whether you have already experienced something similar and what you have done about it in former times. This way you can draw on your wealth of experience and act more quickly. If the situation is completely new to you, a nightmare may call for you. Most people remember a nightmare remarkably well. You are going to talk about the dream with a friend. The friend may have already experienced something like that and offers a good advice. In this case, the dream-power has fulfilled its task: you care of what is on the schedule.
If the sub-consciousness gets hold of an experience you have already gone through in former times to resemble the new experience, the dream shows up with scenes of the past time. You sit and wonder why you suddenly dream of your childhood. During daytime, you might not have recognized in the whole that something has a strong relation to the past. An example: someone is ready to fall in love. Then a dream rises up in which “a family member appears along with this person.” Therefore one remembers a sister or a brother, the father or the mother and starts pondering about them mentally. The dream wants to point out directly that there is a community between the object of desire and an experience of the dreamer´s past time.
What is the meaning of the above-mentioned doorway, or as Sigmund Freud has called it, the watcher, in connection with the dream interpretation? We have learnt that the sub-consciousness transfers important information to the consciousness in the shape of a dream. A story expresses itself through pictures, like in a movie, and passes over to the consciousness. However, there is a kind of censorship on the way to it. This censorship works for us and holds back scenes of the dream that would be too cruel for us to bear; if it is the case that we have not yet achieved the appropriate growth to deal with it. For example: A man had been beaten by his parents as a child and now, as an adult he watches a scene like that in a supermarket or somewhere else. At night the dream-power tells him a story about his own childhood, about how he felt when this happened to him. If this man never dealt with the problem of having been beaten as a child, the dream might arise in the shape of a nightmare, which the watcher holds back at the passage between sub-consciousness and consciousness, because it is not yet time for the man to work out the trauma. The dreamer has successfully inhibited the cruelties all over the years and does not want to be reminded of it now, just like in the past. Probably his parents never told him they are sorry about what they have done to him.
In the following the different types of dream will be explained. It is possible that several different types of dream appear during one night.
The Finishing Dream
WHAT TYPES OF DREAM DO EXIST?
It may seem some kind of peculiar to begin with the explanation about the meaning of the finishing dream, though there is certainly the opening dream as well. My intention is to lay down in front of you the fruits of work with dream interpretation in advance. Like a confectioner who is going to present the pastries to you before he sells it.
Keeping up with the example of the man, whose trauma, namely a not processed injury of the soul has never been worked off: caused by the inhibition lasting for years, his sub-consciousness now feels forced to produce a new dream, a total different dream, different from the nightmare which the watcher has kept back. The nightmare would have shown children who are crying because they had been beaten. The new dream would possibly show a farmer threshing corn off his wheat. The dreamer would not understand the meaning, but at least think about it. If the man´s inhibition of the experience of being beaten is very strong, he might think that wheat, as well needs to be hit to bring out corn and later becomes bread for the people to eat. He might think that this is a general fact in life. His parents might have been so powerful that there had been no questioning about the reason or a demand for apologising. However, the sub-consciousness will never agree with such a kind of viewing things. It has got a high level of moral and its desire to open our eyes on acts like this will linger on, until we are ready to deal with it. It wants to make clear to the man that his parents ought to tell him they are sorry about it, or he would never speak to them again. Its aim is to lead a better life. If he continues with his parents as if nothing ever happened, he might eventually beat his own children one time, although he did not want that. After the forceful break-out the man might get the strange feeling, as if not he himself had done that, but a different powerful energy.
What would happen to the man, if he started to spend his time intensely with his dreams? He would make up his mind why a dream appears in which a person was threshing corn. He could conclude that corn is young, too and is obtained from the bosom of the wheat. At best, he would reflect that he had also been beaten when he was young and talk about the incident with his parents. If his parents were in the position to remember that and tell him how sorry they feel about it, this dream would never rise up again. If he does not have a close contact to his parents, or they had already passed away, and he is unable to talk about his mental hurts with them no more, a quite similar dream is going to appear, probably after a very long time. The farmer again threshes corn but his wife praises his painstaking piece of work in the dream. At this point, the precious task of the dream and the dream interpretation starts, which lends us a hand in everything that keeps us busy and is a companion an entire life long: the dreamer has assimilated the experience of his childhood. Just because of this addition to the dream, when something positive happens, as the farmer´s wife honours the industry of her husband, the hard work on the trauma comes to the close. The man possibly often thought about forgiving his parents long before, but a feeling of anger and hate still lingered on. If, however, the finishing dream with its positive touch appears to him, he can be sure that he could forgive his parents throughout the deepest levels of himself. From now on, he will be able to continue his life undisturbed.
A lively example of a finishing dream and the work on traumata people need to master, delivers the following story. A woman was the victim of rape. At the age of 27 she was raped by a very strong man in an unbelievingly brutal fashion. She was that frightened that it took many years until she went to the police to tell what had happened. The man was already known to the police for several crimes. She recognized him in the archives of the police office. When the man who committed the rape had received the notification, he gave order to a friend to phone the woman and urge on her to withdraw the notification. If not, he would do her even more harm. The woman was so intimidated