Should I believe in dreams? For me, the question is clear: you need to believe in dreams. However, this does not mean at all that you need to read dream books.
First, because the interpretation of sleep depends on the psychology and physiology of a particular person, namely the one who has these dreams. Secondly, most of the available dream books were charlatans. Thirdly, even dream books compiled by famous clairvoyants or psychologists often distort information when reprinted. In addition, dream books compiled “at once for everyone” simply cannot be reliable: they do not take into account any personality traits, occupations, or a person’s lifestyle. Want examples?
What does it mean if you kill a snake in a dream?
Freud is sure that the snake is a symbol of the penis. A crawling snake, from his point of view, denotes a dream of sexual intercourse.
Snake Kiss - the desire for oral sex. According to Freud, sex is all that can be seen in a dream. Killing a snake means suppressing the desire for same-sex pleasures. He does not take into account the age of the dreamer. Vanga, too, without regard to age, prophesies something completely different. She believes that killing a snake in a dream means being a harbinger of the fact that in the distant future people will finally begin to believe in God, restore all the temples and expel the devil. There is also Aesop's dream book. Killing a snake in a dream means either getting rid of an insidious traitor, or, on the contrary, facing this betrayal. True, if loudly screaming frogs are witnesses to the murder, then you will have to solve your problems on your own. Dream Interpretation Dm. and Over. Winters explains that in a dream, killing a snake means an imminent conflict. But if you do not touch the snake, but simply squeeze the poison out of it, then you can prevent intrigues weaving against the dreamer. The New Family Dream Book interprets the dream even more interestingly. I quote: “If you had to kill a snake in a dream, then ahead of you are the anxieties and excitement associated with the upcoming joy.” I personally don't understand this interpretation. However, there is nothing wrong with the fact that each dream book interprets the same dream in its own way. Believers and impressionable people have the opportunity to choose the most harmless or most pleasant interpretation. And you can forget about the unpleasant. And be honest, do you often have to kill a snake in a dream? But only dreams that are often repeated or very vivid, almost indistinguishable from reality, are considered prophetic.
Really?
Actually a dream about snakescan mean anything. Children may dream of these reptiles after going to the zoo or after taking pictures with a boa constrictor. A girl abandoned by her beloved can represent him in the form of a creeping creature. For a snake-catcher or a person who works with poisons, a dream may be an echo of daytime experiences and symbolize nothing at all. If in a dream a sick person has to kill a snake, then this can be both a recovery and an increase in the disease. In order to learn how to read your own prophetic dreams, you need:
- for many years to observe what you see in a dream;
- compare dreams with reality;
- learn to analyze.
This is indeed a fascinating process. But he has nothing to do with popular dream books.