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In some cases, dreams of sex can also be a response to mounting pressure. This can be pressure from family, friends, school, work, or anything else. Sex dreams often involve sexual release, or the desire to achieve sexual release, and this is often a metaphor for the needed release of real life pressures. Recurring sexual dreams when you are under a great deal of stress should be taken as a sign to take a break, even a small one, to let some of the pressure off of you for a time.

It is also important to note that virtually everyone has erotic dreams. There is a story of a saint who had shunned the pleasures of the world, including sex, who was hounded by recurring erotic dreams. After much studying by therapists and counselors, it was determined that the dreams were nothing more than his body attempting to balance his life. In his physical life, he lived a chaste and pure existence, but that did not remove the bodily and mental desire for sexual pleasure. Because he could not fulfill this desire in his waking life, he did so in his dreams. The dreams served the purpose of keeping the balance and satisfying one of the most basic of human desires. This holds true for all people, not just saints. If you are sexually fulfilled, the dreams are often metaphors for other needs we have, and for those who have sexual needs that are not met in the waking world, our brains are trained to help us meet those needs during sleep.

When it comes to erotic dream symbolism, often times what we think is a normal item will have a sexual connotation, while a completely sexual act will actually be trying to tell us something about our day to day lives. A good example of this is a banana. A banana and certain other fruits can indicate sexual or erotic enjoyment, while dreaming of something such as rape, which is clearly sexual actually represents a feeling of being forced into doing something and is not sexual at all in meaning.

There are a number of symbols that can have sexual meanings. The meaning of a symbol often depends on what is going on in a person’s life. For example, dreaming of a valley or canyon can in some instances indicate illness, but often it is a representation of femininity and female sexuality. A number of symbols can indicate sexuality, with different symbols being used for females than males. Typical female symbols are vases and boxes, whereas male symbols are more penis-shaped, such as bottles, or are