Facts about Dreams


Dreams




“Alice in Wonderland”  

“Royal Road to Unconscious”

Dreaming is one of the most mysterious experiences. Scientists do not have all answers on dreams but have some clues. Dreams are the normal part of sleep and are meaningful. Dreams involve images, sound and other senses like smell and touch. Many people even experience sexual orgasm during dreams. The relation of dream is with the person’s experiences and personality.

During the ancient time dreams were thought to be messages form the God, and even to this day we seek to answer and meaning about our dreams. Many artists and scientists have received their best ideas from their dreams.  Another advantage of dream is that the wishes which the person is not able to fulfill in awakening stage he is able to fulfill it through dreams.

According to Freud “Dream is a process through which unconscious wishes, and repressed desires of man make entrance into the consciousness in a disguised form, they show coherence and confusion”.

Characteristics of Dreams

1.   Dreams are meaningful. They are related to your personal life experiences. They contain secret messages.

2.  We forget 90% of our dreams shortly after waking because dreaming brain and waking brain are two different states of consciousness.

3.  Everybody dreams even blind people and young children enjoy dreams.

4.  Dreams are symbolic. Confusion is found in dreams.

5.  Many people experience Lucid dreams-they are aware that they are dreaming while they are in the dream.

6.  Many people see Precognitive or Prophetic dreams-they got glimpse of the future.

7.  Dreams may involve images, sound and other senses like smell and touch. Many people even experience sexual orgasm during dreams.

8.  Men and women dream differently.

9.  Longer dreams occur in the morning.

10.       Dreams are attempted wish fulfillment.

11. Dreams are related to unconscious.

12.       They are colored and black and white both.

13.       Dreams are visible only during sleep.

14.       They are subjective and are based on our real life experiences. We see only familiar faces in dreams.

15.       We experience Sleep Paralysis during dreams-Dreams occur during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (REM). In this state our muscles are in extremely relaxed position, this prevents you from acting out dreams while we are asleep.  

16.       At the time of dreaming, brain is more active.

17.        Many dreams are common. People commonly dream about being attacked, falling from heights, dancing, crying, shouting, eating, swimming, being chased, flying, arriving late etc.

18.       Sleep learning: Evidence shows that everyone dreams, and there is strong possibility of sleep learning. Signals that occur during REM sleep may be incorporated into the dreams rather than awaken the dreamer.

19.        Sleep Talking and sleep walking: These stages are associated with non-REM sleep; subject usually forgets what they said of did while sleep walking and sleep talking.

20.      Nightmares or bad dreams are often happen because of stress and emotional problems.  

Dream Theory-Freud’s Theory of Dreams

The most influential theory of dream given by Freud; he writes in his book “The Interpretation of Dream” (1899) that dreams are not useless and meaningless but they have meaning. Repressed desires are the reason of dreams and that dreams are a mean of wish fulfillment. In the normal course of action dominant desires which are unable to fulfill they are repressed and sent to unconscious but active, and expressed through dreams.

Aim of the dream was the gratification of some drive (fulfillment of a wish). The real meaning of the dream, called its latent content, is not directly expressed, but is dramatized in disguised form, which we gain after the analysis of the dreams, the latent content of dream is the underlying unconscious wish which comes into conscious through adopting some disguised form. The manifest content of dream is that material which the dreamer recalls after awaking or what he is able to express after his dream. Dream work is that process through which the manifest content is changed to latent content.

1. Condensation: Many unexpressed wishes dissolved and in this process part of many feeling are condensed in one image, therefore one incident of dream symbolize many incidents or a single word or figure may have multiple meaning in dream.

2. Displacement: The repressed desires related to the person and situations are displaced to some other person or situation and expressed.

3. Symbolization: The unconscious desires are expressed in form of symbols; they may be private or universal symbols.

4. Dramatization: The wishes before expression are converted into abstract form from concrete form. The person dreams in a way as if he is seeing a movie or a drama, one by one scenes and events come and go on the mind.

5. Secondary Elaboration: The illogical, useless and meaningless material are made meaningful and given form of a story.

 


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