“We dream in order to learn about ourselves and develop undeveloped elements of our personality. He told Huffington Post a dream about death could help to resolve anxieties or anger towards the subject. “Dreams also allow us to process information or events that may be painful or confusing in an environment that is at once emotionally real but physically unreal,” he said. Psychotherapist Jeffrey Sumber saysthat dreams allowed people to play out puzzling emotions and experiences in a safe place. She reasoned that these troubles can often make their way into our dreams. Ms Anderson said the new year and Christmas period was a high time for an individual’s family and personal issues to be dragged front and centre - conflict, grief, anxiety, relationship breakdowns or change, fears of future etc. “We all get to new year and we say “oh, my New Year’s resolution is to stop this … I’m going to put an end to this …” Sometimes our dreams can be our unconscious response to what we’ve decided to kill off or put an end to in our life,” she said. She also said the pressure on an individual to do better and change old habits during the new year period also explained why people were more likely to have death dreams in this time frame. “A lot of people do tend to have death dreams at this time of year,” she told News Corp, adding that this was because people had more time to sleep in and let their dreams play out as intended without interruption. Most of them we never remember but the bad ones tend to stick with us longer. She said they (and all dreams) were a result of what the conscious mind had processed within the last day or two. Ms Anderson said death dreams were very common during the holidays, especially the new year. She has also authored six books on the subject and hosts a regular podcast analysing dreams. Hobart based Anderson is somewhat of a psychotherapist of dreams, and she has been helping people to decode theirs since 1992. Some go as far to say they can help in working through traumatic life events. MORE: Why remembering your dreams can help youĮxperts like dream analyst and former scientist Jane Teresa Anderson believe death dreams are a normal reaction to daily life stressors. This came as a relief considering in the last two weeks I’ve had four death dreams, all involving watching people I love die in horrible and disturbing ways - from car crashes to cancer. Bad dreams are said to be our mind’s ability to play out puzzling emotions and thoughts.
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