Dreams are curious things.

Your sleep is filled with some of the most wild and irrational adventures you ever encounter, yet they slip away so easily from your memory in the morning. What purpose do dreams serve?

Here’s Carl Jung’s opinion.  

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist famous for his study and contributions to psychiatry, theology, philosophy and dreams.

Apart from Sigmund Freud (Jung’s friend and mentor) no one has influenced modern dream studies more than Carl Jung. His idea was that dreams reveal more than they conceal, this has caused many people to observe their night time stories more closely.

Jung theorised that dreaming was as close as you’ll ever get to your ever-evasive subconscious. Your subconscious is full of important thoughts and feelings that you may be unaware of. These can be fears, stresses, trauma, dilemmas, strong emotions and anything inbetween. By analysing your dreams Jung believed you could access these subconscious ideas and become ‘more whole’ because of it.

Jung believed that dreams could contain unavoidable truths, philosophical announcements, illusions, wild fantasies, memories, plans, irrational experiences and even telepathic visions.

But not just anyone can read your dreams and understand your subconscious, because every dream is in its own language. Your dreams are encrypted in their own symbolic code, that only you can fully understand.

For example if you are having dreams where you can’t scream or run to get away from something menacing it could mean you feel powerless over a situation, or maybe you’re stressed out, or fearful of someone you can’t get away from. Either way, only you will be able to tell what the dream really means.

Jung also thought that dreams could have detailed readings where minute aspects correlated to an aspect of the subconscious, or broad meanings where the general feel or ‘newspaper headline’ of the dream gave meaning while the intricacies of the story were irrelevant. It’s up to the dreamer to figure out what kind of dream they are having.

To start listening to your subconscious try to be aware of your dreams. Write them down first thing in the morning then ponder them throughout the day. You may find that some dreams are obvious to you while others take a little longer to debunk.

No place is nicer to mull over your night’s adventures than in one of our Wellington Beds. Our beds are matched to your needs perfectly so you get the best night’s sleep filled with long hours of undisrupted dreaming.

Whatever dreams mean, Jung’s theory gives you something to mull over and hopefully an avenue into your unthought thoughts!