Each and every night when you go to sleep, chances are that you will experience
a dream. Your dream may be either scary or pleasant and it may contain many
different people, places, or things. The content of your dream doesn't matter, does it?
One question--- do you know what your dreams are trying to tell you?
There are many different types of dreams. They can range from fear dreams,
wishful-thinking dreams, sad dreams, happy dreams, and even sexual dreams.
Truthfully, there are as many different types of dreams as there are adjectives in our
modern vocabulary. Every dream that we have in our lifetime will fall into its respected
category or classification (Dee 72).
The first major classification group of dreams is the literal dream. Literal
dreams reflect the outside world in a practical, intellectual way that is very
unemotional. The scenes they usually depict are problems where the solutions can be
seen and sorted out logically--- using the head and not the heart. You can find great
literal content in the dreams of children. This is a direct result of children being taught
to think clearly and ignore silly images. Some people don't recognize literal dreams.
They, consequently, try to make what is actually a literal dream into something
symbolic, but there are no symbols in literal dreams. Literal dreams, however, do
contain some signs and those signs are meant to be taken exactly as they are seen (Dee
One type of literal dream is called an action-replay dream. These are the dreams
that may recall a past action or show a present situation. Dreams relive past traumas or
events for a reason. It allows the dreamer to take another point of view and, possibly,
accept or come to terms with that event. These dreams that go over past happenings
can take on many shapes and sides. They can be frightening, sad, funny, or even
passionate. Comical dreams are repeated...