Jung goes on to explain that males fall in love with women who embody the qualities of their “anima”. It often manifests itself by appearing in dreams and can be the source of men’s creativity. Jung explained that, because a man’s sensitivity must often be repressed, the anima is one of the most significant emotions of all. I decided to do a bit more research on this which led to me to Carl Jung’s school of analytical psychology where he spoke of each of us having our male side (animus) and our female side (anima). One man in his 30’s shared that sometimes the love feeling is so intense when he wakes up that he finds himself thinking of this woman for the next couple days until the dream wears off. I think many women are conditioned to believe that men only have those ‘wet dreams’ like they did during puberty. What I immediately found quite surprising is that men tend to have these dreams as often as women do.
I became increasingly curious about them lately so I started to ask others about their experiences. You may find yourself having these “love” or “romance” dreams both when you are in a relationship and when you’re single. Have you ever woken up and you could’ve sworn you actually experienced that “falling in love” feeling in your dream? You feel warm, cozy and almost like you’re in a love bubble? Sometimes you can see the object of your affection clearly in your dream and other times it’s just a feeling.