I think this is the proper place to post about this topic however if it isn't please let me know and I'll do whatever is required of me to relocate this thread to the proper subforum.

[MY QUESTION/MUSING]:

I don't know what it is with me having dreams about spiders, snakes, scorpions, octopi and a variety of other undesirable creatures...They appear in my dreams fairly consistently and they are almost always attacking/biting/stinging me or attempting to do so. I wonder if this has any subconscious significance or if Im simply projecting my fears onto the subconscious substrate of my dreams.. I don't live in constant fear of these things and at least as far as snakes go I've always enjoyed catching and learning about them. It sort of freaks me out to think I might have some sort of deeper fear of these things or that perhaps I have associated these creatures with negative aspects of my life and so they appear in my dreams during times of stress?

I know many people consider psychoanalytic practices to be pseudoscience and there are some who consider anything by Freud or Jung to be utterly useless in understanding human minds. Well I don't consider psychology to be a science at all so I guess you could say I agree with those people there. However I don't believe psychology is useless or that it's a pseudoscience. I believe psychology, symbolism, the subconscious etc. has some real weight to it. I think the practices laid down by Freud and Jung are valid metrics for gaining a deeper understanding of human cognition, I just don't think psychology is objective enough to be considered a science.

With that said, please share your thoughts on these dreams I've been having if you happen to have any input on the matter.

Thanks ahead of time!

~cMAC