About this blog - Explain Dream

Everybody dreams. This blog is about dreams and their interpretation.

Dream is a form of involuntary imagination in our mind that appears while we are sleeping.  It typically reflect our deep desires or concerns. It is somehow a symbolic language designed to have our inner wisdom communicate to us while we are asleep.

Sigmund Freud believed that dreams contain both overt meanings (manifest content) as well as underlying, unconscious thoughts (latent content).

Dream interpreter views the dream as an indication to our real life that can be used for making prediction.

The ancient Chinese has categorized dreams into 15 types:

• Direct dream (直梦) - what you dream of will actually happen. The person in your dream will actually be met.
• Symbolic dream (象梦) - the meaning of the dream is symbolic and need to be analysed and speculate.
• Cause dream (因梦) - dream that caused by stimulus.
• Wish dream (想梦) - what we think during daytime will come to our dream during night time.
• Psyche dream (精梦) - dream that caused by concentrated thinking.
• Behavioural dream (性梦) - dream that follows our character/belief.
• Personality dream (人梦) - similar dreamland means differently to different person.
• Feel dream (感梦) - dream that caused by our feeling to the surrounding environment.
• Season dream (时梦) - dream that follow the seasonal factor.
• Opposite dream (反梦) - what you dream of will happen the opposite way in real life.
• Intrust dream (借梦) - when the superhuman wants to convey message through our dream.
• Induce dream (寄梦) - dream caused by induced brain wave.
• Vary dream (变梦) - the dream content keeps on changing.
• Ill dream (病梦) - dream that indicate some sort of sickness in our body.
• Ghost dream (鬼梦) - nightmare that caused by incorrect sleeping posture or certain illness in our body.

The ancient Chinese has also concluded that there are 5 kinds of dream that are not suitable to use for prediction:

• Dreams made by person with mental illness - they are not "real".
• Dreams caused by extreme worry in real life - they are meaningless.
• Known dreams - you already know it will happen, and you tried to dream of it.
• Interrupted dreams - they are incomplete.
• Forgotten dreams - they have lost.