Aspies For Freedom

In Psychology, Free Association, is used to interpret dreams. This is when you write down anything that comes to mind when you think about the dream. Open up Notepad or Word and do that now about your dreams, then read this interpreation of the dream, and cross reference between your list and the interpretation and see what's a hit and what's a miss. The hits tend to be the true meaning, misses are well, misses












Being underwater in your dreams symoblises how you are overcome with emotions and need more control in your life. If you can breathe underwater it is symbolic of a retreat to the womb, you want others to take responsibilities and be dependant on another. Maybe you are feeling helpless, and want someone else to help you through this period where you are "submerged" by your emotions.

People in dreams represent qualities and your feelings of those people, that you would like to see in yourself. Seeing attractive people, therefore, means that you want to be attractive. Attractive doesn't have to just be appearance, it can be other things about people i.e. Power, wealth, confidence etc.

Dream interpreation used to be one of my obsessions. I can't  say for certain that these interpreations are correct, but only you would know that. I'd like feedback on how it goes, I've thought this technique up myself and want to see if it is an improvement on what is usually used in psychology.

I once dreamt of being in love with a dolphin. Needless to say, this scared the hell out of me and to this day and age I avoid thinking about dolphins as much as I can. I don't need ANOTHER perversion.

Dreams use toilets as a metaphor for flushing away something in your life which is useless to you, or a release of emotions. If the toilet is clogged up, it means your holding bck your emotions and not letting them out. If the toilets overflowing then it shows your desire to release your emotions.

you can't really interpret someone else's dream like that. there are many universal symbols, but an individual's personal lexicon and circumstances come first.

I keep a spiral notebook by the bed.  I occasionally like to write fiction, and the notebook by the bed is to capture dream descriptions while they are still fresh in memory.  (Ever notice how dreams quickly fade even if you remember them well?)  I figured the subconscious has ideas the conscious ignores, which can be useful in writing.  Even then, they're often hard to describe in just a few paragraphs, or even to describe at all.  (e.g. one about driving down a familiar street and seeing a nifty-shaped building that doesn't exist in reality, but trying to describe the shape of the building after waking up is challenging.)  Mine are often futuristic and maybe a little dystopic.

Since a few of you mentioned pee dreams:  I've had some of those about peeing in weird situations, and then I wake up and think "Oh ^&%*, I hope I didn't just piss the bed."  I never have and it's always a relief.  Why I've had those, I have no idea.

Underwater dreams:  I had one about seeing light through blue, as if underwater... and that's all I have to say about that one.

A recurring dream I've had quite a few times in the past couple of years:  I finished grad school in 2002, so I've had all the school I can stand for this lifetime.  Yet, the recurring dream is one where I'm cramming, trying to get caught up in classes that I'm way behind in from slacking off, knowing I'm going to fail all of them.  So what piece of me is still stuck in school?

Back in grad school, these three foreign exchange students did something to piss me off.  (They had been lapsing into their own language and mocking everything American including the people around them.)  I dreamed that I had been in a fight with one of them by a retention pond near the campus, and had drowned him in it.  There were only a few seconds of dream time, in which I was thinking "Oh great!  Now what?"