Sigmund Freud's Hidden Meaning

events that occurred in our waking state. Freud challenged this when he used the following statement, “like a cheap material always available and put to use whenever needed” this was used to explain how memories that happened during the waking part of the day and physical sensations while in the unconscious were not to be fully blamed for the cause of dreams, but rather they were elements in part of the dreams that were just there to be used by the psyche whenever determining the meaning of the dreams. Next Freud explained and went into detail on how dreams contained hidden messages and also went into why these messages must appear as hidden. Freud once again implicated that dreams were only available in the unconscious part of the mind where …show more content…
When these desires are hidden by strange images and symbols this gives the dreams a higher chance of reaching us through our conscious. Freud says this whole hidden message can be explained by the famous term of ‘dream distortion’. We sometimes see our dreams come to us as the what we consider to be the complete opposite of what we would have secretly desired or wished for; Freud said that this can happen because we as humans like to keep our deepest wishes and desires as secrets incase we are never able to achieve them then we are not having to deal with failure or humiliation. We tend to hide these wishes deep down and never let them rise to the surface, because of this the only way a dream can make an appearance is by coming to us in the opposite form of what we really want. That is why we call it dream distortion, because in a way it distorts what we are really desiring, to expand further on this Freud also said if our psyche is really trying to reach out and communicate with us that the only way it can get to us is in the unconscious by censoring the message by making it more