Introduction
“Wishes suppressed during the day assert themselves in dreams (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams, 1999)."
Most of us, if not all, have experienced waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and paranoid, looking around the room to see if there is someone else in the room. Most of us have spent the day worrying about something nerve racking and then having that show up in our dreams. Most people dream at least 4 to 6 times per night during the REM stage, although we don’t dream every night. We buy books that explain why we dream such thing and the meaning behind it, we search for the meaning behind symbols hoping it will explain the dream or tell us what is to come in the future. We forget 90% of dreams every 10 minutes after having them. The study of dreams is limited because you can't hold a dream, measure, recall or record it. However, …show more content…
In this book, Freud analyzed his Dream of Irma injection, a first dream he had thoroughly interpreted, that helped his state that dreams were a fulfillment of repressed wishes (Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1999). He believes that everything happens for a reason and that every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious mind; thoughts that wouldn’t be acceptable in a conscious level. Freud used the term "manifest content" to describe the contents of dreams, and the term "latent content" as the hidden meanings behind the symbolic dreams (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams, 1999). He tried to connect dreams with personality by stating that dreams were attempts of the unconscious mind to resolve the conflict. Freud believed that there are 3 types of dreams being: 1. Direct prophecies, 2. Foretelling of the future, 3. Symbolic dreams which require interpretation (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams,
“Wishes suppressed during the day assert themselves in dreams (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams, 1999)."
Most of us, if not all, have experienced waking up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and paranoid, looking around the room to see if there is someone else in the room. Most of us have spent the day worrying about something nerve racking and then having that show up in our dreams. Most people dream at least 4 to 6 times per night during the REM stage, although we don’t dream every night. We buy books that explain why we dream such thing and the meaning behind it, we search for the meaning behind symbols hoping it will explain the dream or tell us what is to come in the future. We forget 90% of dreams every 10 minutes after having them. The study of dreams is limited because you can't hold a dream, measure, recall or record it. However, …show more content…
In this book, Freud analyzed his Dream of Irma injection, a first dream he had thoroughly interpreted, that helped his state that dreams were a fulfillment of repressed wishes (Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1999). He believes that everything happens for a reason and that every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious mind; thoughts that wouldn’t be acceptable in a conscious level. Freud used the term "manifest content" to describe the contents of dreams, and the term "latent content" as the hidden meanings behind the symbolic dreams (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams, 1999). He tried to connect dreams with personality by stating that dreams were attempts of the unconscious mind to resolve the conflict. Freud believed that there are 3 types of dreams being: 1. Direct prophecies, 2. Foretelling of the future, 3. Symbolic dreams which require interpretation (Freud, The Interpretations of Dreams,