Dream interpretation and ex-relationships: That's why you dream about former partners
You wake up with a shock: were you just in dreamland? with your ex-partner. Again! How can that be? Why do you dream about exes so often?
Is it just us, or is everyone having the most lively ones at the moment?any times? As the seasons change and the weather gets a little colder or warmer, ours often changes too? and with these changes often come those annoying, everyday dreams: falling, losing teeth and, yes, also the ex-boyfriend.
What does it mean when your previous partner keeps showing up in your sleep, and does it mean that you secretly still have feelings for them? We have withElle Mace, positive psychology coach, spoken to decipher what makes our strangest dreamsreallymean?
Why do I keep dreaming about my:my ex?
Dreaming about your ex-boyfriend is disturbing. But,good news: You're not alone! Pretty much everyone finds themselves confronted in dreamland with someone from their past (often a romantic past).
Scientists still don't fully understand why we dream about certain things and not others. TheSigmund Freud said that dreams are signs of a “repressed longing”. are ? in other words, that we dream about things that we secretly desire.
Psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that dreams “show us the unvarnished, natural truth and are therefore more capable than anything else of restoring to us an attitude that corresponds to our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and reached a dead end? In other words, a former partner appearing in a dream could actually be a metaphor for missing something else from your past.
"Dreaming about an ex-boyfriend can have various reasons," says Coach Mace: "It could be that your subconscious is processing unresolved emotions or memories from the past, or perhaps a current wish that you currently desire, flushes upwards.?
Does dreaming about an ex mean something?
Even if you initially worry that your subconscious might be telling you to get back together with your old flame, dreaming about an ex doesn't necessarily mean that you miss your relationship with him:her? it could simply mean that you are still dealing with unresolved emotions from that relationship or even that time.
?It doesn't necessarily mean that you have the old one“You want to revive it, but it can point to areas in your life that need closure, consideration, or attention,” says Mace. "The previous relationship that appears in the dream can represent love or a connection."
And sometimes, believe it or not, dreams about an ex-partner can be completely random. "It may simply be that we remember a specific moment or memory from our time with that person, but it doesn't have to be unrelated," explains Mace. "If it's a one-time, random dream, it's more likely that it's not connected to other emotions, but if it repeats even two or three times, it could mean more."
What do frequent dreams about ex-partners mean?
Of course every dream about a previous relationship is different? and everyoneArtof dream can have its own meaning.
