Key points

Since the founding of psychoanalysis, dreams have been used to discover how the unconscious processes reality.

Learning how to infiltrate your own dreams can enable you to re-map and re-learn patterns of thought.

Nightmares can reveal undefined wishes disguised as great fears; Freud saw fear and desire deeply linked.

Dreams are emotional semaphores, displaced images and gestures that need to be deciphered to be understood.

Do you buy the Disney version that "A dream is a wish your heart makes/When you're fast asleep"?

Cinderella dreamed of an easier life with a lot less floor-scrubbing and a handsome prince. The dreams that she wished came true. Nice.

But what happens if you dream of nuclear war, giant squids with teeth, or having to take a physics final for a class you n

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