Deciphering the message of a dream is an adventure in which not everyone agrees. There are premonitions of an event is pleasurable and a wish. Emilio Salas's book becomes a good dictionary of symbolic interpretation and one of the most complete one known, like the "Book of Symbols" canary Juan Eduardo Cirlot, key in the interpretation of the arts.

Chambers reminds us that we spend sleeping third of our lives if we take as reference the recommended eight hours of sleep. He then goes into the adventure of conscious, subconscious and unconscious and devotes a section to each.

A conscience is compared to an iceberg of which the part that overhangs the water would be conscious and what is hidden underneath them unconscious. During the vigil live, think and store ideas and thoughts on "tabs" from which grabs later.

Cell regeneration takes place "preferably" in our sleep, "we must now recognize that the dream and unconscious activity preferably also occur during sleep, but in reality both functions, cell regeneration and work of the unconscious is still giving although other ratios, all day, and it is not uncommon to have to acknowledge that often daydream, "says the author of" The Big Book of Dreams ".

Jung goes further and says: "... at the bottom there are very few times when we are really aware ... on the contrary the unconscious is a steady state, durable ... as we listen, speak, read, our unconscious is working even when we do not realize. "

A dictionary of symbols

Chambers's book has two very distinct parts: the first, the study of dreams and, secondly, the dictionary of the same. Freud, Jung and psychoanalysis, Kleitman and sleep mechanism are studied in part as recognition of those who investigated the matter further.

The dictionary, we're taking some statements as in the word "coffee": see in dreams or coffee is a good omen, "drawer" when we opened a drawer and found it empty is that soon we will be in an embarrassing situation, but will be passing .

To find a "layer" in the dream is a sign that we are prepared to tackle an event. "Carbon" appears as a concentrated energy power, the "thistle" warns that we are passing through a season of bad mood, the "sail" is a sign of seeking new horizons, the "home" is a call for family togetherness; the "lilac" symbolize the first emotions of young love, and so on.