Desires of Consciousness

This week I was talking with my friend about the meaning of dreams. She is a psychology student and told me that she has done a discipline that studies our subconscious. I was talking to her about things that I used to dream since I came to US. In many days on my dreams I used to eat something like beans, drive a car or talk with people that I really miss, like my family and my friends.

She told me that our dreams are the wishes of our subconscious, something that we really want, miss or feel. I agree with her, because I have been dreaming about things that was part of my daily life and here in US I can't have them. 

Freud was one of the great researchers about dreams. He explained an important concept: when you sleep your subconscious mind awakens. And when we wake up, wake up the conscious mind and the subconscious falls asleep. He also found that during the dream all our frustrated desires, emotions, thoughts that were not released during the day are released by our unconscious mind. These are our dreams according to Freud. 

So, despite I'm missing many things, I think that my dreams can bring me good memories and make me closer to people that I love, even for a few minutes or hours. It can gives me strength to continue chasing my goals here in the US.