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August, 1931
er's subconscious mind to bring matters of importance to the conscious attention.
The study and interpretation of dreams has become one of the psychoanalyst's most effective tools in helping him straighten out personality kinks. But you need not go to an expert to have this done; you can do it yourself. All that is required is patience and a consuming desire to know your real self.
BEFORE attempting to interpret your dreams, consider just what dreams are. Everything you have ever done, thought, seen, heard, felt, wished for or feared is carefully preserved in the rich storehouse of your subconscious. This accumulated record is vastly important to you as an individual; yet only a tiny fraction is consciously remembered. All the ghosts of the past are deeply and intricately interwoven with your present personality. These ghosts continue to worry, to hope and desire just as they formerly did, but it seldom comes to your attention except when the conscious mind is at rest — or asleep.
Most of us are ignorant of our true motives and feelings. We delude ourselves with words and rationalizations. But during sleep the censors in our conscious minds slumber. Then our subconscious minds speak of those things which are ordinarily repressed due to social, moral or religious grounds. At that time, hate, fear, sex and anger reveal themselves without disguise or subterfuge.
These are the emotions which make up basic character. They come from
within, not from without as the ancients believed. You, the dreamer, are responsible for the strange drama being enacted within your head. You are author, director and cast; and there is always definite reason behind the dream. Your subconscious is trying to give constructive advice, to make you realize the truth about yourself without prejudice.
You may learn many scandalous things about yourself by studying your dreams, but don't worry. Everyone has primitive instincts — no matter how securely hidden. St. Augustine once observed that he was glad he was not to be judged by what he dreamed. Self-analysis, and not aimless concern, is the right way to approach dreams. Study them thoroughly and be completely honest about your findings.
No one else can fully understand your dreams for you. It is an individual responsibility. A word or dream symbol which means something to one person might mean something altogether different to another. Dr. Adler said : "It is not the dream itself which is important but the underlying thought of the dream."
The first step is to write down your dream as exactly as you can remember