In the novel Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, dreams feature prominently as a key symbolism. In this regard, dreams represent and foreshadow the future, they provide deeper knowledge of the characters' feelings and their issues. Dreams seem to be the author's way of telling the reader what is really going on in the minds of each of the characters. In this way, the complicated lives and romantic relationships that many characters endure led the author to create images and deep introspection of their pasts. and their worries, expressing them in dreams. It also gives a clear picture of situations never told in the book. One of the main characters who experiences a series of intense dreams is Teresa. In her dreams, she explores her traumatic journey and she suffers from her fear of losing Thomas and her jealousy of other women: “Let me go back to this dream. His horror did not begin with Tomas's first pistol shot; It was horrible from the start. Naked Munarch in formation with a group of naked women was for Tereza the quintessential image of horror. When she lived at home, her mother forbade her from locking the bathroom door. What she meant by her injunction was: Your body is like all other bodies; you have no right to shame; you have no reason to hide something that exists in millions of identical copies. In his mother's world, all bodies were the same and walked one behind the other in formation. » Teresa's anxiety is completely understandable in the context of her complex relationship with Thomas. Such a relationship is based on her needy love for Thomas and toleration of Tomas's vulgar liaisons with other women, for fear of losing him completely. For those May...... middle of paper ......and engaged in her life, this lightness that seems to take hold of her, but at the end of the novel makes her feel weak and powerless. conclusion, the symbolism of dreams in the novel allows the reader to understand the power of the characters' unrevealed feelings and troubles. However, dreams are also involuntary images of truth beyond the eye that cause certain characters to take different paths from the options presented in terms of emotions and actions. Teresa and Franz are characters involved in the heaviness of love and destructive relationships whose dreams open their eyes to a reality they are afraid to see and understand. As a result, Teresa stays with Thomas and Franz with his student.Works CitedKundera, Milan. The unbearable lightness of being, trans. Michael Henry Heim. New York: Harper Collins, 1984.