Written 4 days ago by Angel Croitor

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Psychotherapist and Dream Analyst, Paul Bradley in Mullingar, let us into the world of dreams and more specifically – when partners lash out at their other half over something they did in their dreams.

“Sometimes we may sense things about our partner and if it doesn’t register with us very often we may dream about it the following night or nights ahead.”

Paul wants partners who are upset by the fact that they witnessed their partners cheating on them in their dreams to focus on a different aspect of the dream. He first explains that it is not necessarily a direct correlation between your partner in the dream and your partner in real life.

It can manifest itself as a symbol of the self. Now let’s focus because it gets a bit complicated.

“Am I cheating on myself in some way? Where in life am I not being true to myself? – Very often dreams will focus on ourselves first than they will on other people.”

So if it has to do with ourselves what does this have to do with our partner? Well, Paul informs us, it’s more often than not a positive thing that you envision your partner acting out in an upsetting manner.

“The dream uses your partner because it’s literally trying to turn you towards something that’s very important to yourself.”

Paul tells us that the more angry the person is after waking from the dream – it’s often an indication of how important that person or part of their life is to themselves.

So let’s go with the partner acting as the symbol of self. Paul wants us to focus then on the latter part of the symbol – where in life are you cheating on yourself? He tells us that dreams will often focus on our number one difficulty or concern in our lives at that moment.

Dreams try to highlight a situation that you may be unaware of or aren’t directly addressing.

This could be linked through emotions we don’t address when it comes to our waking lives – eventually manifesting in the worst or one of the worst possible scenarios that unleash that bottled anger or sadness from within.

“Dreams will often process the emotions for us at night that we havent been able to display during the day – if I’m feeling sad on some level and it doesnt register with me – it’ll very often be portrayed in a dream.”

What do you make of the importance of dreams in our lives? Tell us at midlandstoday@midlandsradio.fm

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