Students share their dreams, interpret meanings
Rachael Noxon
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Lifestyles
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According www.realmeaningofdreams.com, researchers are generally in agreement that working with dreams can provide some beneficial understanding into anxieties and feelings on personal issues.
Answering the questions about what dreams mean is difficult because of the personal nature of each dream people have, and dream imagery is an accumulation of each individual's experiences, memories and feelings throughout life.
"When I was a kid there was the potato dream," said Heather Fife, a freshman music major from Cedar City. "Huge potatoes came into my house with guns. Terrified, I hid in an obvious place, but they didn't find me. I couldn't help my family because I had to hide. It was really scary. My family teased me because I wouldn't eat mashed potatoes for the longest time."
Fife had her own interpretation of this dream.
Fife said: "I think that there's a fear of being along when I want to be with my family and not being able to help them because if I tried I wouldn't be able to. I'm pretty sure the potatoes with guns came from an old computer game my brothers played back in the day. Hiding and running from bad guys in my dreams happens after."
Fife also has recurring dreams of a less frightening nature but equally intense.
Fife said she has flying dreams, and the flying correlates with her life.
"When I try too hard in my life, I don't fly," Fife said. "It feels heavy and too hard. My superpowers are limited when I try too hard or don't have intent. The zone of flying in my life is not effortless. It is filling and fun."
Just as Fife has dreams that correlate with her life, so does her roommate, junior Erica Carey, a music/biology major from Dana Point, Calif. About a year ago, and roughly a year after her parents divorced, Carey said she began having several vivid dreams.
"I used to have these recurring dreams where I was playing with this little girl, and I'm pretty sure she is my daughter," Carey said. "She has blonde curly hair. Sometimes we're playing on swing sets or in a garden. Sometimes she's a baby, sometimes she's a toddler. And when I wake up I miss her."
Carey interprets the dream as living out circumstances in her subconscious that she was not yet prepared to face in her conscious life.
"I think it ties into a lot about how I was seeing myself at that time," Carey said. "I was getting more in touch with a more innocent and playful part of myself, and at the same time I also feel I was living out a desire I was trying to repress because of what had happened to my family because the thought of having a family at the time was too painful."
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