How Dreams Warn Us about Health Problems
It has been known since ancient times that answers to many questions are hidden in our dreams. If predicting the future through dreams is a big question, then assessing the state of health in this way is quite realistic. Scientists have been studying the relationship between dreams and human health for years, discovering more and more new patterns.
Sleep is nothing more than the voice of our unconscious, providing a link between the bodily and mental side of our lives. Let’s see what kind of psychosomatic symptoms we are warned about by the images found in night dreams.
We can say that dreams reflect the inner world of a person, sometimes telling about what is still a mystery to us. This also applies to the state of health – many problems can begin without symptoms, and only the unconscious through dreams can point us to them in a symbolic, not always obvious form. The psychologist of the clinic for children and adolescents “SM-Doctor” Victoria Alexandrovna Bogdanova spoke about the most common images that should alert us and draw our attention to health.
Physical problems
It is very difficult to make an organic diagnosis based on dreams. But the signal given to us is a reason to contact a specialist and undergo an examination. Such dreams-signals are easy to recognize: a dream of an internal explosion, warning of internal bleeding, a dream of a junk engine, suggesting heart problems, the appearance in a dream of a character with a thyroid disease, which was later diagnosed in the dreamer. These are just a few examples. Sometimes the images are more complicated, for example, the disease appears before us in the form of some kind of animal, real or even fantastic. Alas, it is easier to track the disease in a retrospective of images, after the doctors identify the disease. Prognostic is very difficult to do even for a specialist.
Dreams and depression
Psychologists say that depression is the result of repressed anger. As a rule, we feel anger towards a certain person or certain events. Unmanifested, repressed anger is directed inward and devours the person himself – it is expressed in a depressive state. In a dream, depression most often appears in the form of images that carry a real threat to a person. These can be plants with sharp thorns, stinging or biting insects, or various injuries. As soon as a person begins to realize his anger at the level of life, unpleasant images in dreams leave him. Sometimes depression is expressed completely allegorically – a person dreams that he is walking on shaky ground or even a swamp. This indicates uncertainty in some area of ​​life, most likely in the emotional.
Alarm states
Dreams associated with anxiety are of three main types: dreams of not being ready for an exam, dreams of persecution, and dreams of falling or threatening cataclysms and natural phenomena. Running away from people or animals in a dream, you are not fighting a problem, but simply running, hiding from life’s difficulties. Images associated with dangers do not pose a threat to a person, they can only cause unfavorable emotions fraught with tension in the cardiovascular system and increased breathing and heart rate. Often people complain to psychologists about dreams of death, their own or other people. Such dreams are remembered with awakening and cause fear. Oddly enough, they do not carry a pronounced negative connotation but only speak of transformations in the dreamer’s Ego and changes in life.
Dreams with self-depreciation
Sometimes we have very unpleasant dreams associated with humiliation and disgust. For example, we eat stale, raw, foul-smelling foods in them, or we wear dirty and torn clothes. Such dreams, accompanied by often very realistic taste and smell effects, warn us that somewhere in real life we ​​are consuming something bad, harmful, or unpleasant to ourselves. It can be people who are superfluous in your life, useless and annoying information, unpleasant communication at home and at work. After analyzing such a dream, you can understand what you should pay attention to. These images are characterized by the fact that they disappear when the source of irritation disappears. Try to stay away from people who are unpleasant to you, or at least not engage in discussions with them, and perhaps a signal from the subconscious will become clear to you.
Dreams, especially recurring ones, should not be ignored. They should be treated as a reflection of your unconscious. By trying to apply the dream at the highest level, you can understand the essence of the message received, even if superficially. But the best way to find out why the same dream bothers you is to talk to a qualified psychologist.
