“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the to top” Virginia Woolf

Some time ago I realized that almost every night I have a different dream and that the dreams I have during the night always influenced the following the day in some way. So, I started thinking that dreams may have an importance in our daily life and it would be really necessary to learn to “read” them. As a result, I began finding out about the meanings of dreams and the implications they can have in our life.

Each dream is a mixture of our biological instincts, our cultural assumptions and our own personal experience. As we dream, our brains create stories from these ingredients. These stories are occasionally laced with complicated plots, and sometimes populated with elaborate visual images that help us unlock their meaning.

But, do you remember your dreams? It is said that five minutes after the end of a dream, we have forgotten fifty percent of the dream's content. Ten minutes later, we've forgotten ninety percent of its content. Why is that? We don't forget our daily actions that quickly. As they are very hard to remember and recall we sometimes do not give them much importance. However, as Virginia Wolf stated dreams can help us discover hidden feelings and emotions.

Here are some common dreams with their interpretation:

* You fail a test or perform poorly: you feel unprepared for something.

* You fall, fall and then wake up: it symbolizes insecurities and anxiety.

*You are being chased : you are running away from your problems.

*You teeth fall out: you are going to be set back financially.

*You lose your hair: you may be worried about your self-image

* You find a treasure: you are rediscovering a part of yourself.

* You are lost:it symbolises the beginning of a new phase of life and expresses the anxiety of leaving behind the familiar.