The Significance Of Dreams In Homeopathy

Dreams are the entryway to the symbolic realm of the psyche — a powerful force underlying our consciousness. They are also the unhampered expression of our subconscious speaking the truth to us about our lives. They reveal the ‘deepest part’ of our being. They can, therefore, be a useful guide to the homeopath and their mind-body percept as well as to the patient and provide insightful clues to the homeopathic remedy selection — with better treatment outcomes.

- Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor

It is suggested, and also evidenced, that sleep is a sort of conscious relaxation. It imposes a separation upon the sleeper from reality, while passing through different stages during the resting process. Psychologists maintain that one such phase, which entails the point of ‘separation from reality,’ forms the terra firma for dreams to take place during sleep. It has also been suggested, albeit ironically, that the sleeper may break their links with reality with a view of achieving balance, perception and awareness.

From the medical standpoint, it is suggested that most of our emotional disorders are due to lack or shortage of dreams, including vitamin-B deficiency — which is highlighted by the sleeper not being able to remember, or recall, dreams. It is also evidenced that a pattern of rapid eye movement [REM] sleep, in fact, sets the tone for dreams to take place during sleep. REM encompasses of phases of nervous stimulation and dreaming at regular intervals of time. Mind research contends that, in the anatomy of a dream, the pons, located at the brain stem, acts as the ‘control tower.’ It sends excitory messages to the cortex to start dreams and inhibitory impulses to the body’s muscular system to prevent the physical enactment of dreams — the dream, to be specific. Thank nature for big mercies. Or, else dreams would have had both mental and physical components and also, perhaps, ‘performance.’