Guest Author - Aisling Ireland Halloween is coming soon and many
people young and older will be celebrating by throwing parties,
dressing up or going trick-or-treating. Even the unconscious may
get in on the festivities and send some scary dream symbols into
your dreams. Even if dreams don't get scary, Halloween may be a
time when the unconscious may go into overtime, producing more
dreams than usual. Why should this be so? Below are some ideas.
Halloween was originally known as Samhain, a Gaelic word for
'November'. It is believed that Samhain marked the Celtic New
Year; a time for recognizing summer's end and celebrating the
end of the harvest season. It was also a time for honoring the
dead, a tradition that has held on in some Catholic church under
the name "All Souls' Day". Even some Protestant churches
recognize the dead sometime during the first week of November in
"All Saints' Day" services. Pagans still celebrate and call the
day Samhain. It was believed that during the time of Samhain,
the veil that