Dreams as a voice of our subconcious
The Dream as a Voice of our Subconscious Mind December 4, 2003 Thesis: Dreams represent many different areas of one’s life in physical, emotional, and mental ways. ... These dreams are important because they are the voice of our subconscious mind. ... The functioning of dreams III. Metaphysical and Physical Existence of Dreams IV. Dreams as Therapy- Interpretations V. ... Dreams can be defined as “a conscious series of images that occur during sleep” (Microsoft). Dreams are usually very vivid in color and imagery. ... Dreams may reflect every part of who the dreamer is. The content of dreams depends on “how old the dreamer is and how educated the he or she is” (Microsoft). ... Dreams represent many different areas of one’s life in physical, emotional, and mental ways. ... These dreams are important because they are the voice of our subconscious. ... Dreams had during REM dreaming are more detailed than dreams that occur in other periods of sleep. ... Dreams can relay to people facts about their lives, of which they are not aware. There are also many ways that dreams can help cure different physical, emotional, and mental problems in one’s life. Dreams allow one to take a closer look into his or her mind in a quest for self-discovery. Dreams can be used to solve a number of different types of problems. In his The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud states “In regards to the dream, all the troubles of waking life are transferred by it to the sleeping state” (Freud 113). ... Freud says that certain images in dreams sometimes have significant meanings relating to the person’s life. Freud called dream interpretation “the royal road to the knowledge of the unconscious in mental life”(Hunt 178) Much of what is in our dreams is not straightforward or easy to understand. ... Dreams represent different areas of one’s life that deal with one’s physical, mental, and emotional being. ... Dreams are “a private language, known only to ourselves” (Cartwright 5). ... Dreams can offer an escape to individuals who need relief from their everyday problems. ... Dreams help one to overcome these stresses and help people to get on with their lives. In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud states, “The waking life never repeats itself with its trials and joys, its pleasures and pains, but, on the contrary, the dream aims to relieve us of these”. Although an individual cannot relive the same moment, dreams allow us to recreate those experiences. Our feelings about the event may manifest in our dreams and allow us to handle a situation the way we wanted to, not necessarily the way it happened. Although we may not think about a situation on a regular basis, memories of that moment are within us and therefore become possible subjects of dreams.