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Facts about Dreams 3

1. Colors in dreams can be interpreted only in the context of the dreamer's relationship with that color. For example, the color red may be experienced as love or sex for one person—but for someone else, red may denote blood or destruction.

2. Large bodies of water often symbolize the unconscious, so dreams of drowning may indicate being overwhelmed by unconscious, repressed issues. Drowning can also symbolize that the dreamer is entering a new stage of development and that the old self is "dying.

3. Feet in dreams can symbolize everything from sex to humiliation. They can also represent mobility, freedom, or a foundation.

4. Forests, like water, are often symbols of the unconscious. Traveling into a forest indicates exploration of the unconscious realm or represents a comforting refuge from the demands of everyday life.

5. A house in a dream is often a symbol of our body, so a mansion in a dream can represent a "rich" or even exaggerated sense of self. A mansion might also represent our future potential.

6. Expectant parents often have dreams about miscarriages, but this is almost always a symbol of their anxiety about the baby rather than a prediction. Miscarriage dreams are also powerful symbols of projects or business deals that have gone wrong.

7. Being naked in a dream suggests exposure of self to others, vulnerability, or feeling ashamed. Alternatively, it can also represent a desire for freedom or being unencumbered.

8. Vampires are important fixtures in folklore, and their appearance in dreams can represent our general fears and anxieties or can embody anxieties about our sexuality.

9. Because nightmares were thought to be from menacing spirits, such as witches, folklore suggests placing a knife under the foot of the bed. Evil spirits were thought to be repelled by the steel on the knife.

10. In contrast to modern dream interpretation, which is psychologically oriented, ancient dream interpretation was concerned with discovering clues to the future.

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