for humankind since the beginning of time. These nocturnal vivid

images seem to arise from some source other than our ordinary

conscious mind. They contain a mixture of elements from our own

personal identity which we recognize as familiar along with a quality

of `otherness' in the dream images that carries a sense of the strange

and eerie. The bizarre and nonsensical characters and plots in dreams

point to deeper meanings and contain rational and insightful comments

on our waking situations and emotional experiences. The ancients

thought that dreams were messages from the gods.

The cornerstone of Sigmund Freud's infamous psychoanalysis is

the interpretation of dreams. Freud called dream-interpretation the

"via reggia," or the "royal road" to the unconscious, and it is his

theory of dreams that has best stood the test of time over a period of

more than seventy years (Many of Freud's other theories have been

Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming

is the activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). It was perhaps

the use of the term activity that Freu

is insufficient to produce a dream in the case of an adult. He admits

such a wish. 1) It may have been aroused during the day and for

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that two fundamentally different kinds of psychical processes are

performances, dream accounts resemble the anecdotes people use to give

fragment, which itself has much uncertainty. Secondly, there is every

from the unconscious. (Freud pg. 230.)

the instigating of a dream, but it will probably not do more than

dream-instigator. But it must not be forgotten that it is a child's

some descriptive study of the incidence and character of feeling in

My supposition is that a conscious wish can only become a

sexual needs or those stimulated by thirst. The place of origin of a

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