I sometimes have dreams of my very young self, especially when I have spent a day with my grandchildren. But I feel this has to do with Memory Consolidation and triggers that cause neural pathways in my brain to access … Continue reading
What Does it Mean When You Dream of a Friend Dying?
We often dream about the people who are most significant in our lives. This is because either we regularly see them so that they are in our recent memories, and dreams are thought to process and consolidate recent memories into … Continue reading
A true story about the most traumatizing dream
As a mother of three who has had first-hand experience of trauma and abuse in a supposedly stable relationship, I’ve had many dreams that expressed the terror of my life back then. One particular dream is especially traumatizing because it … Continue reading
How dreams help us deal with psychological trauma?
Even before the great Sigmund Freud hypothesised that “Every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance”, humankind has had a belief in the importance of dreams and their impact on our daily lives. Dreams reflect the … Continue reading
Have you heard someone knocking & then dreamed about it?
Scientists and the medical community tend to label the hearing of sounds and voices that aren’t physically there as auditory hallucinations. Without any diagnosis of mental illness, hearing sounds that aren’t there is quite common in the ordinary population. In … Continue reading