Dreams

A recent dream I had was that I was surfing in California with my sister and a few girls that I did not know. We spend the whole day on the beach doing nothing but surfing and laying in the sand. The dream was not a very in depth or detailed dream, many of the other girls in the dream did not even have faces. However even though the dream was short and without much detail, it had a calm and happy vibe to it that made me know it was a positive dream. In trying to figure out where this dream came from and what it means, I came to the conclusion that perhaps I need to give myself some time to relax, try something new, or meet new people.
Freud says that the things that people say and do in their dreams are one's unconcious mind expressing itself in a way unknown to the dreamer. The 'id' is ones selfish desires, what one wants with no consideration for others or consequences. In a dream one can express what their id wants, in a way that is not as distructive as physically following through on some of these activities that are kept in check by the ego and superego. Dreams are referred to by Freud as the "royal road to the unconcious," (page 53) because dreams can show us what a person desires or feels when they may not conciously realize it themselves.
Freud explains that people dream because they cannot keep their desires hidden forever and this is an outlet for them. By talking about and studying ones dreams a person or their therapist may find an underlying problem that had been pushed away by the patient or an explination that the patient did not realize.

Below is a link with more information on dream interpretation:
http://www.dreaminterpretationguide.com/