Dreams From Imi
Real dreams. Hidden meanings. The language of the unconscious.
Socrates said, “A life unexamined is not worth living.”
To make sense of life is not only to examine what happens in daylight.
While we search for the meaning of life, should we look only to the hours we spend awake, or also to the nights when the unconscious reveals what we are not yet ready to say aloud?
To live is to attend to both: the life we carry in daylight, and the life that reveals itself in the dark. Only then do we awaken to life in its entirety.
Dreams rarely explain themselves. They arrive in fragments, images, and feelings that resist waking logic. Yet over time patterns emerge, repeating symbols circling something we are not yet ready to say directly.
So I’m starting a column where readers can send me their dreams, and together we look at the images they carry.
My approach to dreams is shaped by my academic background in psychology. I studied psychology at university and later completed an MSc in Clinical Psychology, where I also explored Jungian approaches to dream analysis.
Every subscriber is welcome to submit a dream through the button below:
Each month I will choose one dream and explore its themes, psychological patterns, and what the unconscious may be revealing through the language of dreams, drawing on Jungian ideas about symbols and the unconscious.
The invitation to submit dreams remains open to everyone but the full interpretation will only be available to paid subscribers. The dreamer will be notified that their dream is selected.
Not as prediction or diagnosis, but as a way of listening more closely to the stories our unconscious tells when we fall asleep.
Thank you The In Between for being my first dream donor. The images immediately struck me.
The In Between : “I was on a plane and somehow lost all my clothes. I kept trying to change in the airplane bathroom, but the bathroom became the counter of a restaurant kitchen. Waiters were receiving orders while I was trying to change.
Then I was visited by ghosts of children I never had. One of them told my aunt that the children she miscarried all visit now. Every time I thought one of my children was in the room, they would turn around and reveal they were only the ghost version.
Then there was a quick scene where I saw HVR as a high school student performing in a theatre show. I was sitting in the bleachers watching.
After that I ended up in a strange lab where everyone was receiving some kind of liquid treatment to look younger and more beautiful. I didn’t trust it, but my family and friends were all lining up and telling me I needed it too because I wasn’t perfect yet. The treatment never showed its results.
I found a little girl crying in a room because the treatment had deformed her. I tried to tell everyone, but no one would listen. Everyone who came out looked like the ‘cat lady.’ Then the potion was dumped on me unwillingly.
Finally I was back home with my kids, except the house was different. It was a new house attached to a play-place, and there was an extra room. I remember thinking: now I have room for another child.
The room was in the same place where my parents’ bedroom had been in my childhood home.”
What this dream is expressing:
In dream language, seeing yourself on a plane and then losing your clothes while trying to change them can reflect a moment where the unconscious is showing a mismatch between the roles you carry in life and how prepared you feel to inhabit them.
The next scene reinforces this.
