Dream interpretation

been studied for decades and one major finding is that men have been noted to be more aggressive in their waking lives than women. This aggression men feel extends to their dream content patterns as well. Due to biological and social factors, men have been found to be more aggressive in both their waking life and during their dreams. As many studies have shown, there is a big difference between the male and female dreaming process. An example…

Interpretation: a word that can bring forth a swarm of emotions from any person that believes that his or her understanding is the truth. From experience, interpreting any form of work, whether it be literary or art, often causes controversy with conflicting opinions. One person may say that a painting looks like a black rectangle, another may say it represents the doorway to hell. In the history of Christianity, there has been many conflicts and differing opinions about how to interpret the…

Sigmund Freud proposed that the dreams we have show what we want to feel but are too afraid to admit. He used the terms ‘manifest content’ and ‘latent content’. Manifest content can be defined as the remembered story line of the dream. For example, if you had a dream about going to a casino and gambling. The manifest content is remembering that you lost at the table or the machines. Latent content is applying that dream into your unconscious mind to interpret what it means. The gambling may…

Othello: analyzing characters by Freud’s interpretation of dreams. Reality and dreams are two completely different worlds with only one thing in common: desires. “Desires” are everything that we wish, want or crave (dictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Apr. 2015. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/desire?s=t>). Usually, when people are unsuccessful in accomplishing their desires, they try to make them happen in their dreams. The accomplishment of our desires was an intriguing aspect…

Dale M. Kushner’s Understand Your Dreams by Using Jung’s “Active Imagination” takes on C.G. Jung’s ideas about the latent content of dreams to develop the thesis that states, what is hidden from our minds in the day-world becomes manifest in living color in our dreams (Para. 1). Reading Kushner’s thesis confirmed my ideas about what the underlying meaning of our dreams really are. According to Jung, “Our darkest dreams might contain imagery that illustrate our internal conflicts and…

For the mystic, Dream Yoga is an essential tool in the collection of Amrita and in understanding the nature of Nirvikalpa-samādhi, yet it is the Atman that will control the dreaming awareness as Self can only experience ordinary dreams. The Atman awareness can move out of the lucid dream state and enter into the unknown, unifying the energies of the Yantra chakra with the energies of the Bindu chakra. In many ways, ordinary Self becomes the dream and dreaming becomes the reality as the Atman…

After understanding that this was done intentional I don 't believe it’s possible to say that the film was necessarily “good” or “bad” because everyone 's interpretation and willingness to interpret is different when watching the film. If this openness was not intentional then I could understand why the film could be considered unsuccessful or “bad” but we know that it was intentional because the use of non-narrative…

to me and said, “Zac, you have been running your station perfectly today.” Besides the original intent of this statement, metacommunication conveyed this statement into a couple of interpretations. My first interpretation was that throughout the whole shift, so far I have been working efficiently. My second interpretation of my manager’s statement towards me was that he has liked how I have been running my station so far that night. The other memorable moment of metacommunication to be was after…

The powers in strong relationships are the foundation for understanding, realization, and revelation. Relationships are used to overcome and to build onto one’s self. People feel the need to be close to others. This need is followed by the given response of creation. The creation of a piece of art or the creation of a relationship fills the need to have a connection with the composer. The relationship between composer and each viewer is unique to the immediate viewing. The strength from these…

began interpreting the text allegorically and by interpreting the text allegorically they proposed many allegorical meanings unintended by the biblical authors (pg.5). Parables of the Gospels gave one example, which speaks of the New Testament interpretation of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Plummer says that “This story as an allegorical message of salvation, with the Good Samaritan is signifying Jesus”…