Thread: My socks... erm, yeah

I'm not sure what socks symbolise either. But they will mean something to you. Clothes are intimate things really, especially clothes which touch the skin. But I agree socks isn't the first item you'd think of when thinking about intimate clothing.

Whatever, it sounds like you're looking for something you've lost. Something that a male part of you has taken away. You're trying to get it back again and you're looking for that in a female. Whatever the socks are, they make you feel whole again.

So why does "she" have the socks? Well, I dunno. This doesn't mean you fancy her. But something about her leaves you feeling that she has something you want. Yet your dream ultimately tells you she doesn't have it (the socks).

In short, (and metaphorically speaking), you've been chasing the wrong woman!

Thanks, that kind of makes sense

well socks.. yes its not easy to interperet such symbols. But socks are as others have said very intimate personal items.. if you see someone in their socks its usualy when they are undressed. so it could be sexual
I have also had dreams which have used very bad puns... socks could even stand for a pun on sex.. or sucks
yet really rise above the symbols and look at whats happening. Your friend puts the socks in her pocket yet she runs off. Do you feel pressured to chase other girls by this friend.. even when they are not interested.. or even when you are not interested.

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Many people think that dreams contain messages. Yes thats true to a certain extent. But really dreams are often just our best guesses. Dreams are symbolic of judgements that we have to make. Often we do not have access to all the information that we require. For instance you maybe angry that a friend seems uncooperative and seems to have been sending out some very negative signals. That maybe the best guess that you can come to. Yet you may not have all the facts and you might be in ignorance as to the real reason for your friends strange behavior. So try not to see dreams as being the best source of advice. They merely reflect some latest judgement. That judgement is probably the best guess but could very easily be wrong.
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Freud would be very happy to have someone recall a dream like this to him on his sofa. Socks in classic psychoanalytic psychotherapy are interpreted to be vagina's as are many other objects, such as shoes. Although the dream seems to be rather playful, chasing around a girl who has your socks, the dreams latent content, as opposed to its literal content, seems to be entirely sexual. The other boy who took the socks from you could be symbolic of the you that you wish to be, the one who has the socks, the one who has the girl sexually. It could be a split between two different parts of your psyche. Your superego tells you that you cannot have another girl since you are a moral person and you have a girlfriend, but the id tells you that you must have her! The "you" that reaches her only to find she has no socks for you is the moral you, your superego, and the other boy, a symbolic projection of yourself is the id telling you you must have her at all costs. I don't prescribe to the psychoanalytic principles entirely although I do find them incredibly interesting. Its one of those cases were you cant prove the psychoanalyst wrong, but you sure as hell cant really prove him right! Hope this helped in someway really interesting stuff!

Well you certainly cannot prove a pyschoanalyst wrong. But you are equally right in saying that you cannot prove them right. To me pyschoanalytical therapy exists in some nether world. It obsesses about sexual issues and some trauma that happened long ago. To me dreams link to the here and now. They represent the burning issues in our minds. The issues concerning relationships or issues or even something that has just happened on tv.. something stimulating in the mind rather tahn something long forgotten that is festering. Occasionally dreams can be about issues festering but only in the sense that something has triggered them off.

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Many dreams are about your current frame of mind. In some ways they are about your fantasies. We dream about how cool we will be in such and such a situation. In our dreams and fantasies we are Spiderman. Yet dreams are also realistic and will contain cryptic messages showing how we are becoming unrealistic in our thoughts. We allow ourselves to get carried away with how things will improve. In truth we are merely motivating ourselves. If we achieve half of what we want in our dreams then we are doing well. If you have been lying awake in bed and thinking about the day to come then that fantasy may appear in your dreams. The connection may not be obvious but it’s definitely there.
Generally an upbeat dream is likely to be about the future and how we are trying to get ourselves into the right frame of mind to tackle the problems and sitations in our lives.

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http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowtopost.php Interpreting dreams
http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessayhowto.php Triggers for dreams
http://unclesirbobby.110mb.com/dreamessay.php Dream dictionary

Originally Posted by unclesirbob

Well you certainly cannot prove a pyschoanalyst wrong. But you are equally right in saying that you cannot prove them right. To me pyschoanalytical therapy exists in some nether world. It obsesses about sexual issues and some trauma that happened long ago. To me dreams link to the here and now. They represent the burning issues in our minds. The issues concerning relationships or issues or even something that has just happened on tv.. something stimulating in the mind rather tahn something long forgotten that is festering. Occasionally dreams can be about issues festering but only in the sense that something has triggered them off.

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Many dreams are about your current frame of mind. In some ways they are about your fantasies. We dream about how cool we will be in such and such a situation. In our dreams and fantasies we are Spiderman. Yet dreams are also realistic and will contain cryptic messages showing how we are becoming unrealistic in our thoughts. We allow ourselves to get carried away with how things will improve. In truth we are merely motivating ourselves. If we achieve half of what we want in our dreams then we are doing well. If you have been lying awake in bed and thinking about the day to come then that fantasy may appear in your dreams. The connection may not be obvious but it’s definitely there.
Generally an upbeat dream is likely to be about the future and how we are trying to get ourselves into the right frame of mind to tackle the problems and sitations in our lives.

There's much more to Freud than sex. And much more to psychoanalysis than Freud. It's about how the past plays out in the present, which I would have thought was very relevant to dreams.