Dream Psychology
I have always had a certain fascination with dreams and why we have them. How do we take every day events and turn them into fantasy (both wonderful and terrifying) when we drift off to sleep? I have obtained numerous dream interpretation resources to try and analyze and hopefully discover what signals my own dreams are sending me. The observations and studies of Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung have helped me get on the right track in finding the true meaning of my dreams. In the following pages I will reveal what I have learned related to the different stages of sleep, the three types of dreams you can have, and the stage in which you actually dream. Also, through the dream stage, I will compare and contrast Freudian theories with Jungian theories on the subject of dream explanations, analysis and symbolism. By studying dreams, we can gain important knowledge of how our inner mind works; we can learn of any existing differences between our conscious, social, and public self as well as our internal forces (Piotrowski, 9). Dream interpretations help to remove the blinders from our eyes. Freud once said, "A dream is a wish fulfillment" (Stekel vol. 1, 3). So one might reply with the question "What about
Jung has also come to disagree with certain conclusions that Freud came up with in his first steps of analysis. Jung flatly denied the quote from Freud about a dream can be a fulfillment of a wish. Jung noted that people have a great deal more bad dreams than good ones and this was so predictable that they couldn't see how Freud could see it any other way. function (De Becker, 282). Jung basically goes by Maeder's theory which is 'the dream is a preparation for life'. He does not think that Freud has the right to call his (Freud's) own dream interpretations "symbolic interpretations". Jung said "A symbol is only such as long as this transcendental sense remains incomprehensible so that the dream object is, at a given moment, the best possible expression of unknown psychic processes, not properly understood" (Boss, 95). While Freud sees the symbols in dreams as definite references to sexuality, Jung thinks that those same symbols point to some psychic structure that is still not completely understood. autonomic nervous system, rapid eye movements, and frequent dream reports. Typically, a person has four or five periods of D-sleep during the night, whether the dreams are remembered often, rarely, or not at all; they occur at intervals of about 90 minutes and altogether account for about 25 percent of the night's sleep (as much as 50 percent in a newborn child (Foulkes, 25)). Evidence indicates that a dream period usually lasts from 5 to 20 minutes (Piotrowski, 49).
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