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Dreams attempt o solve problems according to the individual style of life and they are not to be interpreted as common sense.” Alfred Adler theorised that dreams were pathways to our real thoughts and that our unconscious and conscious works together during dreaming. Another dream theorist, Friedrich Perls, suggested that dreams contain rejected parts of us, and that they are specific to the dreamer, rejecting universal symbols. He thought that the characters in our dreams represented aspects of ourselves. Dreams bring a certain mystery back into our lives. We become aware and relearn the use of intuition and instinctively begin to understand the dormant language of nature and archetypes. Although dreams may be confusing and unclear, these images are the dream’s disguises. Dream symbols are unique to the individual, although I find universal meaning in some symbols to be of great help in dream interpretation and during therapy. Another important aspect of dreams are their complexity; a dream can incorporate more than one aspect of your being.