The cause of Tereza’s dreams In Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the author builds several characters that represent the lightness and weight. Tomas and Sabina are the main characters who represent the lightness. In contrast, Franz and Tereza are the symbol of weight. Tomas and Tereza are lovers whom the author describes deeply to exploit their innermost feelings to create a dramatic novel. Tereza is a character who appears in either weight appearance or weight soul. She was born without her mom’s love, and it starts her weight life. Marking love with Tomas who is the light person changes her life as well as creates her complicated soul. The Soviet’s invasion of Prague where is her motherland is a part of her heavy life. Heavy life attacks her life and brings horror dreams to her sleeps. Tereza’s childhood, the lover Tomas, and the Russian’s invasion are the three main reasons to cause her weird dreams. Not having a happy childhood with her mom is the first reason in Tereza’s dreams. Tereza is not a child was born by her parent’s accident. Her mom is inherent a beautiful child of a business man. Marrying without love with a less handsome man and having Tereza unintentionally makes her think that Tereza is the main reason of her worst life. Tereza moved to live with her mom and step father after her dad died in the prison. Her mom started to sculpture monstrous things on Tereza life. As a young girl, Tereza was never allowed any sense of shame with regard to her body. Her mom was always nude around her and tried to force her to do the same thing. She taught Tereza that her body was likes a dirty physic. Tereza would like to stand in front of the mirror to find her own body; however, she always saw her mom’s body on her body, and she tried to find it inside her soul. In her mind, the body and soul was the two things totally different. Her mom always filled all bodies were same into Tereza’s mind. This is the main reason for Tereza’s naked dream which happened through her life. Tereza is limited in the ugly body of her mom, and she wants to escape her life from her vulgar mother to the unique body. To escape the traumatic dreams, she decided to leave apart from her mom, and came to Tomas who she met in a hotel restaurant. Tomas is the second reason to create Tereza’s weird dreams. As a young woman, Tereza worked in a hotel restaurant where she met Tomas was reading a book. She felt this is her man, and she decided to connect her life with him. Besides the love she gave to him, the main purpose is that she wants to find her unique and irreplaceable body. After short time living together, Tereza started to have weird dreams. She wanted to find her unique body; however, she recognized Tomas treated her like another mistress. Tereza had dream she and many woman were force to be nude and walk around the pool while Tomas shot them. A nude woman image is result of all things her mom put on her mind, and this is Tomas’s cheat create for her. Tereza is miserable to find out Tomas has another mistress Sabina. Because of Tomas’s unfaithfulness, Tereza continued to repeat heavy dreams on her sleep such as she dreamed cats jumping at her face and digging their claws into her skin. In Czech, a slang word “cat” means a beautiful woman. Nightmare always happened through her sleeps. Tereza and Tomas decided to move to Zurich when the Soviet’s invasion happened, but after that they came back Prague. Regardless of anywhere they were, Tereza still smelt another woman’s groin on Tomas’s hair. She failed to become the unique body in Tomas’s life. Near the end of their life, they moved to the countryside where they were totally separated from outside. Tereza still dreamed that Tomas turned to a rabbit. Most of Tereza’s dreams concentrate on Tomas who looks like her whole life. Tereza is a symbol of weight; she has a heavy life or weird dreams. The Russian invasion partially affects her life. The Russian invasion on Prague become the third reason contributes Tereza’s dreams. The Soviet tanks invaded Prague and established direct control of the Communist Regime in August 1968. Tereza worked as a journalist and she felt happy than ever. From the childhood to marry Tomas, her life was a series of traumatic dreams; however, it was interrupted by her happy job. Since the carnival was over, those dreams came to her again. She couldn’t continue her job to find the balance in her soul. When Tomas and Tereza moved to Zurich, she chatted with another femal photographer who let her see a picture of a nakd mother leaning over her children. Tereza immediately remembered her mom. The political pictures were not accepted in Zurich, and that makes her reject working as a journalist which relieves her stress as well as takes out her dream. It means that she began to live a heavy life again and could not escape from those weird dreams. In conclusion, Tereza’s traumatic dreams affect deeply her physic and emotion. The childhood, the Soviet invasion and especially Tomas are main reasons cause Tereza’s dreams. She the more wants to escape her body or make it unique, the more she hovers on her life. Tomas’s unfaithfulness is a strong strike on her emotion, and most of dreams point out Tomas’s cheating. The unique love for Tomas makes Tereza more weight and miserable. She always tries to find the happiness, but she just receives cheating.