What Psychological Perspectives: Do Dreams Have Meaning?

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We spend a third of our lives sleeping, that is a lot of time as not to pay attention to what happens while we sleep and dream. Why do we dream, do dreams have meaning? These questions have long intrigued scientists. Many people might not remember their dreams, and even those that do usually only remember one or two, but we all dream every night. For centuries scientists have been studying dreams, according to our textbook, scientists are deeply divided about the meaning of dreams and their importance. More than once I have woken up after what seemed like dreaming for hours and spent the rest of my day trying to analyze or find a meaning to my dream. There are many different psychological perspectives, therefor there are many different ways in which I can analyze my dream.The three most widely known perspectives are the psychoanalytic, biological and cognitive perspectives. Today I will be narrating my most recent vivid dream and analyzing it according to each perspective.

It was a dark and stormy night, I got home from work, my husband had made a delicious dinner. After dinner I helped my son, Jonathan with his homework, and read him a story before
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I run to the main office to look for a phone, when I hear my son calling for me. I run out into the hallway I can still hear him. I run into every classroom, every time I think I am getting closer, I can't hear him anymore. I can hear him again this time I run as fast as I can, the voice is coming from the gymnasium. I can see him now through the door windows, he is sitting by the bleachers and crying. I try to open the gymnasium doors, but they're locked. The only other way into the gymnasium is through the locker rooms. I run to the locker rooms, and make it into the gymnasium. He runs towards me crying, says he has been looking for me. All of a sudden the fire alarm goes off, I wake up to find that it is morning and my alarm clock is going

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