tion to the observation that men's dreams contained more aggression was that adolescent girls tended to show more aggression in their dreams even than adolescent boys, perhaps reflecting the tendency for girls entering puberty and for menstruating women to be more in touch with their sexual power and to have more violent dreams. That women today express more aggression in their dreams suggests that, as society is changing, dream content is equalizing somewhat. Although women continue to dream more about people close to them, infants and children, and indoor settings, they dream about male characters, friendliness, sexuality, weapons, and clothes as often as men do.
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Of course, most of what happens in your dreams is unique to you and your life experiences. Here are a few of the more common actions or plot lines in dreams; see whether some of them ring true for you.
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Flying: When most people dream they're flying, they feel a sense of freedom as they leave the ground and sail through the air. Indeed, some dream theorists believe a dream of flying is actually an expression of the idea of freedom from physical limitations, from everyday life. Flying may also suggest feeling "high," rising above restrictions to a new level of happiness or success. The Freudian interpretation of flying is that it is an expression of sexual desire. Some experience flying as a higher consciousness, and believe that it can be a forerunner of an out-of-body experience, in which you truly feel as though your being or soul has left your body to travel on its own. Flying can also have negative associations, such as being ungrounded or out of control, or having an inflated sense of self.
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Falling: A dream in which you fall, whether down a cliff or simply onto the floor, may suggest the feeling of losing control or having a decrease in physical, mental, or spiritual energy. In a
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