Dreams
Dreams, Freud & Interpretation By J. Foley
Your dreams are usually selfish, meaning that they are about you specifically, a good 90 percent of the time. People in dreams work most commonly to reflect, or mirror important aspects of your personality.
Dreams are a communication from our inner subconscious mind to our outer conscious mind. Dreams are a vehicle in which your mind communicates ideas, warnings and health issues. They can't always be taken at face value and can have lots of hidden symbols and meanings, if only you're prepared to look for them.
Dreams offer divine guidance and comfort, warn people of impending danger, and offer prophetic glimpses of the future, also play a very important part of our subconscious guidance and will often bring messages even important warnings to us, and essentially keep us in touch with our deepest thoughts and highest aspirations.
In analyzing your dreams, you can learn about your deep secrets and hidden feelings. Every detail, even the most minute element in your dream is important and must be considered when analyzing your dreams. Look closely at the characters, animals, objects, places, emotions, and even color and numbers that are depicted in your dreams.
With practice, you can gain an understanding of the hidden secrets your dreams are trying to tell you. If you can successfully interpret your dreams, however, you can learn a lot about yourself. Some dreams are worthy of repeated analysis, and just because you can come up with two or three interpretations, does not mean that only one can be right, in fact they could all easily be right. Remember that dreams often have a much deeper (and sometimes completely different) meaning than the obvious.
Freud
Freud's work on dreaming has recently regained interest because among many other opportunities, the ability to conduct studies in sleep laboratories and the neuropsychological assessment of brain-injured patients has assisted in finding some scientific evidence for some of his theories. Freud called dreams "the royal road to the unconscious," and for Jung, understanding them was key to becoming an "individuated" person. Keeping in mind Freud's ideas were gestating in the late 1800's, when there was none of the perfected scientific research and research methods that we have today.
First of all, relying on his own dreams for analysis tends to make his research solipsistic, which is to say we may be looking more at Freud than his research and conclusions. Secondly, Freud comes to the reductionist conclusion that all dreams are wish fulfillment. Keeping in mind the strange and limited universe of sampling, it is no wonder that Freud came to this rather odd conclusion.
Part of the problem is that Freud completely ignored the creativity aspect of dreams. however, In present day, one can question any Freud scholar about ~The Interpretation of Dreams~ and they will say the same thing: the book contains everything that 'is' psychoanalysis. Anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and the mind of Sigmund Freud, reading this book is an absolute must.
However when comparing The Interpretation of Dreams with Freud's discussion of dreams in his work "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis", it has to be pointed out that the latter is probably an easier way of gaining insight into his views about dreams. The Interpretation of Dreams edited by Ritchie Robertson is meeting the challenge for psychoanalysis to refresh Freudian theory, "which now has an unpalatable and distinctly post-Victorian flavor for many. If you are interested in the book's process of development, I would suggest reading ~The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Fliess~; another gold mine for understanding the growth of psychoanalysis.
By paying attention to our dreams and interpreting dreams we can gain greater self-knowledge and lead better, more fulfilled lives. Although many psychologists and neurologists disagree on where dreams come from and what they mean, there is a long history of people interpreting dreams in order to make sense of their real lives. To find out more about interpreting dreams and how dreams can work in your real life, visit your local library or bookseller. Interpreting dreams can be done by anyone willing to simply learn how. Dreams Hold The Secrets To Health, Wealth & Happiness
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