Find Your True Self
Through Your
FANTASIES AND DREAMS

a new book by Olavi Moilanen, Ph.D.

Front Cover            Back Cover This book brings an important message. It reminds us that every man wants to live a good life. This is possible only by using dreams and artistic expressions, like pictures, music, and literature. Especially fairy tales and other folk stories have and hold ideas of a good life through our long history. These stories carry the ideas of a good life offered by religions. Dreams are the same for individuals as fairy tales and stories are for all of us. They make ideas of a good life fit into every individual situation. The human being is unable to live a good life by aping others. Everybody has his own special route to go. Dreams guide us in this. We are conscious only about one percent of our whole life. Especially our bodily and emotional expressions are mostly beyond our conscious understanding. Only emotions can guide us to a good life. On the conscious level we are in the middle of thousands of different demands and expectations. We can only feel by our conscience, when we are doing something which is wrong. Only dreams and stories can guide us privately. This is the meaning of living. Thousands-years-old religious stories connected with powerful images guide us in stories and dreams. We do not create stories. Stories create us and make us human and able to love. paperback 6” x 9” ♦ 448 pages ♦ perfect bound ISBN 978-1-929956-15-9 first print ♦ retail price $19.95 - Buy This Book - News and Reviews

• In them the links connecting events inside the dream with situations of everyday life is based on free associations, not on any kind of logical thinking. If somebody is hungry when falling as asleep, his association may start from getting food. After that, different events will appear for example: eating in restaurant, dancing on a dance floor, problems in relationships. So the key to understanding dreams is to understand ones own line of associations based on different emotions. The associations may be following by 'the guidance' of situation or a metaphor or a phrase. The situations connect events based mainly on ones life history. If two or more thought appear at the same time, they will be later connected to each other. Also, many other kind of connections may happen: a fruit can express fruitfulness, ice express coldness, a baby can express new ideas or ways of life and so on. In the human mind the phrases, expressions, often used connect many kind of thoughts together. We speak, for example, about a flood of feelings. So, in dreams a strong emotional situation can appear in the form of a flood. Many families have developed their own collection of phrases. The associations may also use metaphorical connections. For example, a serpent can mean erotic power, a bear spouse, food and earth can mean mother, and so on. Most of the associative connections come from the common language, whose richness is very often carried to us stories and fairy tales.

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