Dreams
What we can be sure of is that dreams reflect our waking emotional states and help us, at least in part, to process those that have the potential to disturb or disrupt our wellbeing. The imagery of dreams is not some strange and mysterious language that can only be decoded by an expert, but rather a metaphorical or direct representation of what concerns us emotionally in our waking life. To consciously recall and consider our dreams is to indirectly explore our recent negative or intense waking emotions, which may lead our attention to the most salient and important concerns in our lives.
Nikolay Petrov & Oliver Robinson
In the summer of 2018, I conducted a research project with Dr Oliver Robinson, funded by the British Psychological Society (BPS), investigating the relationship between dreams and adult development. The research was subsequently presented at the BPS annual conference as a poster presentation.
The research subsequently prompted me to write an essay on dreams, which was published in The Psychology, the largest UK magazine for psychologists, published by the BPS.
Following the publication of the essay, I was invited to be a guest on a podcast, discussing dreams, on a Bulgarian platform.