Dreams indicate to us, in a symbolic language, what lies behind an image: the representation of a memory to which a personal interpretation has been grafted.
In this regard, the discovery of symbols must be considered in two ways: on the one hand, through our personal projections, and on the other hand, through universal symbols (Jung).
Once again, we must ask ourselves whether we are among those who dream symbolically or not.
To dream symbolically means that our dreams are populated by imaginary characters, which represent a facet of our personality or that of the lives of those around us. This is the subjective dream. Ancient peoples confronted dreams with external events rather than with interiority. Can one truly separate the one from the other?
You dream symbolically if your nature is complex, highly sensitive, or if you are getting older. In this type of dream, characters of the same sex who live in the dreamer's intimacy represent fragments of their life. The further we advance in life, the more we dream of symbols that come from the collective unconscious. We inevitably dream in a symbolic language, and this does not necessarily indicate excessive sensitivity.
Those who do not dream symbolically are mostly phlegmatic, young people whose temperament is not easily disturbed and who are not afraid to view the facts of life objectively. They have objective dreams.
In this kind of dream, the characters are authentic: the husband, the sister, the friend, the mother, etc. They dream of the real people who form the usual fabric of their existence. Their true movements, or those of the others, are not hidden from them; they see directly, without disguise or inversion, the relationship they live with those around them.