Dreaming is a part of life. Everyone dreams. They dream for as long as they live. "That can't be true," some readers will say. "I never dream." They may well believe this -- but this is a fallacy, nevertheless. People who say this just don't remember having dreamed once they have woken up. Even unborn babies dream in the mother's womb.
Dreams are the gateway to an inner world, a world just as real as the one outside. What is outside is also inside; what is inside is also outside.
Dreams inform us in a visual language about repressed experiences and other processes of the unconscious. Dream images and activities, however strange and even meaningless they may seem, show symbolic structures. Scientific research into dreams, founded by Freud and Jung, compared dream material with its symbolic content. Dreams became psychotherapy's most important aid in exploration of the unconscious.
A knowledge of the meaning of these symbols is of great assistance in the interpretation of dreams.
The aim of this booklet is to give a wide range of readers insight into the meaning and the purpose of dreams.