If you're honest, its likely you would admit you have permitted yourself to be moulded to fit into a crowd or community.  This often promotes discomfort and dishonesty on a subconscious level.  In such cases, misery, frustration and anger arise and you may repress them at the same time as you repress your dreams.

To recognize you feel disconnected from your true self is the first step to transforming your life for the better.  You can benefit from learning more about Robin Sharma's Seven Stages of self-Awakening.  Consider these highlights:

1) Stage 1: people are unconscious to the truths of life and have little idea about how the world actually works.  As you project your fears, misunderstandings and false beliefs into your surroundings, the result is an inaccurate view of reality.

2) Stage 2:  As you discern you are following the status quo and living a life that appears incompatible with who you are, you realize you have choices.  You can buy into illusions, continue living as you always have, or decide to redefine your own path and happiness.

3) Stage 3:  This is the phase where you recognize your perception is evolving.  Your sense of the truth is changing.  You begin to grasp you're meant to experience abundance, to seize opportunities and to make the most of your relationships and experiences.

4) Stage 4:  As you seek wisdom, you seek out mentors and teachers to help you progress.  You admit you are hungry for answers and healing.  This is where you grasp the revelation that a sense of confusion will always lead to new levels of understanding and clarity.  Its a process of revelation...yours.

5) Stage 5: To transform and feel reborn may strike you as a most challenging phase.  And yet, it may also be where you learn the most in ways you'll never forget.  This is where your true self makes itself noticed on a regular basis.  How you perceive yourself, your potential and the world will never be the same.

6) Stage 6: Here is where you acknowledge trials and tribulations.  This is where you need to confirm you've learned the necessary lessons and admit how much you desire to reconnect to your true self.  Many people give up and retreat.  Only people who truly believe in themselves persist.

7) Stage 7: Your awakening or period of enlightenment is where you evolve into the qualities and characteristics which are your true nature.  You become fearless, innocent, infinitely wise.  You harness the power of pure love and unconditional compassion.  To get here, you have to evolve to where you desire to be true to yourself more than anything.  Discover your destiny.