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Ever wondered what your dreams say about you?

Had an odd dream last night? A psychologist explains what it means.

Do you have vivid dreams in which you are flying, or driving an out-of-control car, and have you ever wondered what those dreams mean?

Business Insider has compiled a list of what it says are the nine most common dreams, with interpretations by psychologist Ian Wallace, who has interpreted more than 150,000 dreams for patients in a career spanning 30 years.

The reports says being able to fly “suggests that you have released yourself from circumstances that have been weighing you down in waking life.”

Ian says this is “usually because you have managed to make a weighty decision or risen above the limitations of a heavy responsibility.”

Dreaming about being behind the wheel of an out-of-control car “suggests that, in the waking world, you feel like you’re not making progress toward a big goal.”

He advises “trying to be less controlling.”

Being naked in public suggests “something in your life is making you feel vulnerable and exposed” and Ian suggests “opening up more to people, even if feels embarrassing.”

The full list of common dreams is here.

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