Dreams are a representation in the sensory environments of our mind.
Because I make dream interpretation a key part of my psychotherapeutic work, Ill offer some comments here about this work. Freud: The Royal Road. Sigmund Freud once called dreams the royal road to. . . the unconscious, and I think that statement will remain true in psychology forever. Of course, there are other ideas about dreams besides Freudian theories. Some persons believe that dreams have certain fixed meanings. If you dream about oranges, it means good health; if you dream about onions, it means hard work, and so on. Moreover, it was a dream that revealed to a scientist the molecular structure of carbon atoms in the benzene ring. All this mystery can leave us wondering what a particular dream means to the dreamer, and we can argue about what causes dreams in the first place. Of course, there are other ideas about dreams besides Freudian theories. Some persons believe that dreams have certain fixed meanings. If you dream about oranges, it means good health; if you dream about onions, it means hard work, and so on. All you can do is put the dream into words in an imperfect attempt to describe what you experienced. So, in the end, to talk about the dream you really talk about the text of your perception of the dream. The text, of course, is language, and, as such, its already a form of interpretation of the raw experience. Of course, there are other ideas about dreams besides Freudian theories. Some persons believe that dreams have certain fixed meanings. If you dream about oranges, it means good health; if you dream about onions, it means hard work, and so on. Yet, in spite of modern science, dreams still remain mysterious. Science can offer some explanation of how dreams are related to brain functioning, but only a psychological understanding of the unconscious can explain why a dream happens at a particular time of your life and what it all means psychologically. Of course, there are other ideas about dreams besides Freudian theories. Some persons believe that dreams have certain fixed meanings. If you dream about oranges, it means good health; if you dream about onions, it means hard work, and so on. Dream Psychology. One item that Carl Jung felt was a window into our subconscious and that could be used in analytical processes was the dream and dream psychology. Dreams are a representation in the sensory environments of our mind. They reflect thoughts, feelings and awareness. They reflect our everyday lives in that they are expressing what has been occupying our minds in the day or two prior to the dream. Your dreams might influence your final choice, suggests new research. Scientists disagree as to what extent dreams reflect subconscious desires, but new research reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 96, No. 2) concludes that dreams do influence people's decisions and attitudes. Social psychologists Carey Morewedge, PhD, at Carnegie Mellon University, and Michael Norton, PhD, at Harvard University, conducted studies to find out how people respond to their dreams. I believe that by looking at your dreams you can gain insights into the stresses and issues your waking mind is struggling with-and you may find you already have the answer of what you know you need to do. I am a part of a dream group-we get together once a month and bring in our dream journals. 5. The Absence of Theory. Of course, others argue that dreams have no meaning at all—that they are the random firings of a brain that don't happen to be conscious at that time. The mind is still functioning insofar as it's producing images, but there's no conscious sense behind the film. Meaning has to do with coherence and with systematic relations to other variables, and in that regard dreams do have meaning. Furthermore, they are very revealing of what is on our minds. We have shown that 75 to 100 dreams from a person give us a very good psychological portrait of that individual. Give us 1000 dreams over a couple of decades and we can give you a profile of the person's mind that is almost as individualized and accurate as her or his fingerprints. by G. William Domhoff. Dreams are so compelling, and they often seem so weird and strange -- surely they must have a purpose; that is, an adaptive role in the maintenance of our bodily or psychological health. We have shown that 75 to 100 dreams from a person give us a very good psychological portrait of that individual. Give us 1000 dreams over a couple of decades and we can give you a profile of the person's mind that is almost as individualized and accurate as her or his fingerprints.
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