The royal road
Sigmund Freud explicated dreams as the
royal road to the unconscious. The path where we are all kings and queens;
oblivious to the tribulations of the wearisome world, where yearnings are
fulfilled and wishes granted. The unconscious mind is always unchained,
unrestricted and unobstructed. Dreams are the mind's insensible fulfillment of
sub conscious desires. The waking mind may not accept a valiant disclosure of
love or uninhibited expression of resentment. But dreams allow this completion.
They are uninhibited. The unchained mind can soar to heights and breathe in
great depths too. So it makes the best of that freedom. It dreams.
Dreams contain successions of images,
thoughts, feelings, ideas as well as sensations. Dream content may involve incidences
the entire lifetime: past, present as well as future. There may be objects, concepts,
people, fears, joys, successes and failures altogether. Previous challenges
that have been overcome years ago may crop up to the surface in a dream. The
emotion connected with the event may be experienced too. The incident would have passed but the emotion
tinged with it lingers in the subconscious mind and surfaces when given an
opportunity. Past relationships, partners, professions; all appear in dreams if
the emotional tone attached to them has been unresolved.
Present day dreams
Dreams about current occurrences are mere
spill overs of the daytime residue of actions that didn't get accomplished in
wakefulness; hence they chose to linger on. These may not be very sentimental;
they indeed seem like a living day extending through the night. They signify
conscious preoccupation with the issue that continues into the night. They
ought to offer messages too. The completion of the event usually terminates
these dreams.
Listen to the messages they’re sending
According to Freud the motto of dreams is
wish fulfillment; if you haven’t achieved it in reality; you can have the candy
in your dream and make yourself happy. Carl Jung proposed that dreams reflect
events that one may have been neglecting; thus the conscious mind wants to prompt
us through the dreams. The Gestalt concept follows a different philosophy
elucidating that the ignored, rejected and suppressed part of the being comes
alive in dreams. There are several messages based on varied concepts of
interpretation. Most dreams ought to be construed in the context of individual situations.
There is usually alteration of constructs within the dream which should be
understood in detail in order to earn the apposite message. If you don’t listen,
you won’t know what the dream is trying to say.
The distortion of elements
Reality is truly an enigma. There are as
many realities as there are perceptions of it. According to a series of
studies, we are irrational about dreams the same way we are irrational in our
everyday decisions. In their search for meaning, humans can turn to dreams in
order to find answers and explanations. Dreams reflect the human trait of
optimistic thinking since humans tend to focus more on dreams where good things
take place. However there are frequent nightmares as well as dreams of
punishment and death which challenge Freud’s theory of wish fulfillment. Why
would one wish for punishment?
Dream defenses
The reorganization of events in dreams is
the mind’s defense against unacceptable executions. These reshuffles ought to
be interpreted rightly. Often in dreams one may confess feelings that are
actually opposite to really felt emotions. At others these may be expressed towards
unwanted people. The displacement of emotions is a cover for the wariness of
even the subconscious mind to fulfill its actual wants. Likewise reprimands and
death in dreams is the mind’s self-gratification of forgiveness by punishing
oneself in the dream since we cannot dare to do so while we are wide-awake. Several symbolic substitutions are also a commonality in dreams and have to be interpreted within the context of current life. Dreams have a lot to tell you. You just need to be all ears to listen…
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