Sigmund Feud Research Paper

Dreams are an essential part of our sleep. They are a series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person’s mind while they are asleep. Often when we have dreams whether good or bad and when we wake up it’s hard to remember what the dream was about. Scientists define dreams as hallucinatory images. According to Myers, REM dreams are “hallucinations of the sleeping mind and are vivid, emotional and bizarre, so vivid that we can confuse them with reality.” For example, if we dream about falling off a cliff and when we wake up we would feel as if we were still falling. Even though we might believe it is happening in real life these are just hallucinations but essential for human beings. Without dreams, you will lose interest in life …show more content…
He believes dreams help us to satisfy our own wishes and deal with our inner conflicts. Dreams provide us with a safety valve that discharges unacceptable feelings such as sexual desires. According to Myers, “He viewed a dreams manifest content as a censored, symbolic versions of its latent content, the unconscious drives and wishes that would be threatening if expressed directly.” Usually our dreams don’t have sexual content and if it happens it occurs very rarely. What we are more likely to dream about is the exam that is coming up that you are nervous about, a traumatic experience such as a car accident that has troubled you to feel safe when driving or about a computer game you have been playing for hours. These are more common to our day to day life events are dreams that are likely to reoccur. Since sexual content is the least likely to dream about Sigmund Feud believes that sexual content is deceived in our dreams. For instance, if we dream about a gun this can be a symbolism for a penus. However other scientists like William Domhoff don’t believe our dreams can be symbolic of sexual desires since we can interpret our dreams in our own