...Dream Interpretation Jami Hoffner Psychology 131 Dr. Deadre Holmes March 7, 2013 Dream interpretation is widely studied by a vast amount of people. The article includes different types of methods used by psychologist. As well unique theories of what a dream is or means, or if a dreams mean anything at all. The article talks about how people interoperate dreams into real life and how dreams effect our actions. Dreams more heavily influenced our judgment than when we are conscious stated by the article. Its funny to think that in our dreams we are more honest and truthful then in reality. This is because we are scared of what society is to think, and the effects our actions could have. In real life you can't just wake up and start over as you can do in a dream. In dreams we have more control of "our world" but when awake were in Gods world. God is the controller of our fate and we are the control of our actions. Our dreams are more like a test run to see how something will or may play out. They give you the sense of what to do, what to think, and who to be. As the article states if a woman were to wake up from a dream where her husband had an affair it could affect the way she thinks, and may lead her to start panicking and becoming curious. Leading to conclude that our internal thoughts can stimulate external actions. This article even states that dreams can some how predict what is to come or to happen, such as a death in the family or house burning. Its been...
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...Thesis Statement: Understanding how dreams occur, how they affect our lives and what they mean help us grasp what dreams actually are. Intro: I. (Attention Getter) Have you ever dreamt that you were walking along the side of a road or along a cliff and suddenly you trip? You’re falling for what seems like forever, but before hitting the ground, you wake up? This is considered to be a falling dream, and ironically, falling dreams occur when you are falling asleep. They are usually accompanied by muscle spasms and twitches of the entire body. Although these dreams occur while we are falling asleep, they interpret a completely different meaning. Falling can mean you are insecure, you are losing grip, or you simply have fears that need to be faced. Patricia Garfield, the author of Creative Dreaming states: “there is some problem that is making you feel helpless like you have no support, so next time when you wake up startled from a falling dream, ask yourself what upcoming events do I fear I will fail?” II. (Introduce Topic) Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to understand the different functions of the human body, how we move, talk, and even act. Many of these physiological behaviors have been explained to some extent. However, one area of the human body that has baffled researchers, is that of the mind. Many things that go on inside the mind that don’t make sense, and serves no real explanation as to why or how things happen. One of the most fascinating...
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...“Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.” (Unknown Author). Many researchers have found interest in the topic of dreaming and have pursued many topics in their research. There are many different components that are involved in why we dream, how to understand our dreams and the possibilities of remembering our dreams. Despite opposing viewpoints, research proves that everyone does dream and if we understand how our dreams work, then it will have a positive effect on our well-being. “There are many theories about why we dream, but no one knows for sure.” (Karriem-Norwood). The two main theories as to why we dream is, “ To represent unconscious desires and wishes [and] To consolidate and process information...
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...What Does it Mean to Dream? What does it mean to dream? Why do we dream? In fact, what is dreaming really? In this world, a lot of definitions and answers were formulated to solve this question. Up till now, nobody has actually defined clearly what is dreaming or why do we exactly dream. People after all have different contentions from each other and opinions can play a heavy role in determining a decision. Because of this a lot of prominent psychologists developed different definitions to the meaning of dream. Even before that, Philosophists have already pondered on such an interesting concept. Some say that dreams come from an external source, wanting to communicate with us or convey to us an important message. Others say that dreaming is related to fulfilment… meaning that a dream is essentially something you wish to happen but are either actively repressing it or subconsciously doing it to yourself. Others say that dreams are a reflection of waking life… of what we have experienced translated unto the realm of dreams. But what is dreaming really all about? Dream, otherwise known as Morpheus or Oneiros, and his willy antics extends itself to the realm he presides on. Just like the enigmatic being, the landscape is unpredictable, changing and foreign. It may be rapid in its change or it changes itself in a snail’s pace. There is no limitations to the human mind after all. Anything that can, could and couldn’t happen can be easily conceived and achieved by the mere thought...
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...Dream Perspectives Scott M. Standen Helga Parker November 28, 2011 Abstract This paper will explore the three perspectives of dreaming. The psychoanalytic perspective, the cognitive perspective and the biological perspective. The psychoanalytic perspective, as conveyed by celebrated neurologist and founding psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, is examined through his literary work The Interpretation of Dreams. This book serves as the basis of the psychoanalytic perspective which the other perspectives will be set against. The cognitive perspective will be viewed through the writing of David Foulkes in his book Dreaming: A Cognitive Psychoanalytic Analysis and the biological perspective will be discussed through the writings of Drs. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley of Harvard University. Through these sources it will be shown how the perspectives relate to one another so that a basic understanding of them can exist in the scientific community. The recorded history of dreams dates back to 3100 B.C. through clay tablets describing the story of king Gilgamesh who reported his recurring dreams to his goddess-mother Ninsun, who made the first known dream interpretation (Seligman, 1948). Babylonians and other ancient cultures divided dreams into good ones that came from the gods and bad ones that came from demons (Oppenheim, 1966). Various other ancient cultures believed dreams to...
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...RESEARCH PAPER - DREAMS About a month ago the two of us brainstormed a few ideas for our first Psychology project. After a weighing the pros and cons of our options, we decided to research dreams and dreaming. We were hoping to learn some information over the vague topic of dreams such as the biology, the causes of dreams, and possibly some of the meanings behind certain dreams. Not only that, but we were interested in the different varieties of dreams people had and why they had them. From the beginning, we had hoped to answer some seemingly basic questions such as “What is a dream?” “What are some different types of dreams people experience?” and “Why would someone experience a certain type of dream?” After many hours and much research, we feel that we were rather successful in answering these and many more questions regarding the topic. So what IS a dream? Well, according to Sigmund Freud, dreams are the, “royal road to the unconscious.” Coming into this project with little to no experience on the topic, it was more than difficult to comprehend why it was that important. “They’re only dreams,” we would say, but after extensive research and reading, it is much easier to follow where Freud was coming from. You see, dreams are not simple; you have to admire the intricacy of a dream interweaving thoughts, ideas, and experiences a person has had in his/her lifetime. The process of dreaming itself connects different parts of the mind that may not be able to find each other...
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...Happiness is never far away, sometimes it appears at times when we least expect it. There are times in life when everything just falls apart and we can do nothing to stop it. We look at all these bad choices and say that they are stupid. Nobody is perfect. Everything happens, everything breaks one time to another. Then there comes a time when we start to dream. We take other paths, there again, it helps us straighten the walls we build. There comes a time where you must choose, Continue or just give up. Many continue, others invent a better life and others leave, they plunge into alcohol, drugs, and eventually find themselves stuck in a worse position. Some of them manage to escape, others get stuck and end up buried alive. The world lives with Hope, dreams and goals. When Hope goes, happiness goes too. As a result, when you stop dreaming, you stop living… Dreams give a certain hope, courage that luck is out there and not everything is black and white. The concept of a dream refers more broadly to the idea of an "imaginary production" or "ideal", which gives us reasons to live and gives us goals and objectives . For example, an athlete could dream of winning a medal in the Olympics. This dreams gives him desire and courage to excel and to he will do every single thing possible to achieve it . In result , he will have a purpose in life. He will Chase after something he really wants. A dream is a world where anything is possible. It’s a world that restores hope...
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...What are plans? Why do we need plans and working on it? How important can someone life with a plan? These are the questions when we want to plan something. We hesitate our self and set our mind into failure. In order to be what we want we have to build our own stairways to our goals. In this paper, I would like to share about what am I going to be in the next Twenty years, and what are the obstacles I have to go through. What weapon will I use. Of course it is my plan that became my weapon. However, is it even true that we have to reach what we want rather than just following the current nor the flow that other made? It is clear as a future leader I should create my own flow and strive through any kind of problems. Introduction Personally,...
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...of America in search of one thing...The American dream.There are people like J.G Ballard who think that the american dream is dead and would not ever come back.many people say he is wrong and there are facts to prove it.Most people think that the american dream is dead and that it no longer supplies the world with its images,its dreams,its fantasies.if people think that the american dream is dead because they can not get ahead financially then they are dead wrong.The american dream is within people solely because people control their own actions.The American dream is based on hardwork and determination that these immigrants have.Just because people think that they deserve everything because they...
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...opened the door for dreams to be one of the many scientific research topics. He became fascinated with dreams after working with certain patients of his. Many patients randomly telling him about the dreams they would have while they were sleeping.After, his patients began to tell them his dreams he started including the interpretation of dreams in his psychoanalysis along with hypnosis and free association. Toward the end of the 19th century he researched the methods of dreams and what they meant for humans. The dream theory is one of the theories that helped form a lot of the theories that have been formed do to pscyhoanylasis. It helped formed the pscyhoanalysis like the subconscious.He anaylzed the theory simple enough for people who did not suffer from mental disorders so that they could understand. We try to get rest when we do not want to deal with the pressures of life and try to go to bed. When you get tired we withdraw from the things that are going in life and we take a pause in engaging in the things that are going on.These are one of the main charecteristic that a person is getting sleepy. We try to fall asleep in most cases with silence and we cut the lights of in our room,but some people like to sleep with the lighs off and television and music plugged in their ears. Frued derived dreams symbols from the resistence of dreams interpretation. He stated from his research that you resisted certain things while dreaming happened no matter what even with people who...
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...a split personality patient telling me a story about how he talked to himself. He said it was a dream. But even in a dream, in my experience I can’t have two of myself at the same time. If I am in the dream as a character, (Sometimes I dreamed about others and I didn’t even show up in my own dream) most of the time I knew I was dreaming. The pictures in my dreams are black and white. So if I am in a world without any other color, I will know I am dreaming. But there is a scary question I am wondering. Like what the narrator said, “Who is dreaming whom? I know I am dreaming you, I do not know if you are dreaming me. ” What if we can share our dream at the same time? For example, I was dreaming about my mother who is thousands miles away from me and we have the time difference, 12 hours+. I know she was in my dream and we talked about the tuition of Berklee is getting much higher than before. Then my mother had the same dream at the same time. So when she called me, she said she was dreaming about me, and I realize we were dreaming about each other. But we can’t leave any message in our dreams before we talk to each other and we appeared both of our dreams. But the narrator’s dream is scary too. His another himself wanted to suicide. Why he is still alive? If they really share the dream, once the dreamer died, the character would die too. That’s the logic. But anyway. That’s what I thought from the story. The Daughters of the moon First I should say that the author wrote...
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...Dreams can be fascinating, exciting, terrifying or just plain weird. Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years, but only recently have dreams been subjected to empirical research and concentrated scientific study. Chances are that you’ve often found yourself puzzling over the mysterious content of a dream, or perhaps you’ve wondered why you dream at all. Dreams can be mysterious, but understanding the meaning of our dreams can be downright baffling. The content of our dreams can shift suddenly, feature bizarre elements or frighten us with terrifying imagery. The fact that dreams can be so rich and compelling is what causes many to believe that there must be some meaning to our dreams. Why do we dream? Some researchers suggest that dreams serve no real purpose, while others believe that dreaming is essential to mental, emotional and physical well-being. Although there is not much agreement on why we dream there are some interesting theories around. One possibility is that our minds are running us through the worst-case scenario during sleep. Disaster preparation you could say. For example if a new mother was to dream of losing her baby she is rehearsing what it would feel like for that to actually happen. So our dreams are just fire drills? Another possibility is that dreaming is actually aiding learning. Some researchers have found that performance on physical tasks is actually enhanced by dreaming about it. Whatever the reason for why...
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...Liao English 104 – 33 12 March 2013 Research Proposal: The Psychology of Dreams For my research project, I am investigating the abstract world of dreams and the theories behind those dreams. Why we dream what we dream, and how, and where dreams come from. There have been many different theories on where dreams come from and how to interpret the dreams of different people. I will be exploring the similarities and differences of those theories along with speculating which theories are the most accurate, taking into consideration recent research on the psychology of dreams and dream interpretation. My main focus will be the world-renowned psychologist, Sigmund Freud. His theories on dreams and the interpretation of dreams are the most widely known and socially accepted theories, but are those theories the most accurate? That is what my research paper will be discussing and examining. This paper will be objective, simply providing the facts about dreams and the different theories regarding dreams and the interpretation of them. I will go in depth with why we dream what we dream, some of the most common dreams that people have, and what the most popular theories are behind the psychology of dreams. My purpose of this paper is to inform my audience of the theories behind dreams and where they come from. I will provide information on the different interpretations of common dreams, the history of dreams, and the basics of the sleeping cycle. My readers are my class peers as well...
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...Abstract In this paper I will be exploring the topic that many people are mystified about, dreams. This paper will go into the most thought provoking theory on how we can control and manipulate our minds to envision what we want to see at night. I will also include a brief history lesson on how people envisioned their dreams to mean in ancient civilizations. In addition on exploring on how many scientists says we can control our dreams, I will talk about case studies in which humans are put to the test on proving theories actually controlling dreams. Can We Control Our Dreams? From human’s earliest civilizations, we have pondered on the idea of -what are dreams? From this article name “The History and Meaning of Dreams” It stated that early...
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...Dreams: Could They Be All They Are Made Out To Be? ³Over a seventy-year life span, you¹ll devote at least fifty thousand hours to dreaming² (Segell 42). These dreams can be made up of many things. They can be a window into another world or ³like a urgent fax from your subconscious² (Graves 97). Many things can affect what we dream about and they are not always our previous thoughts. Things such as gender, information gained during the course of time, or even sensations received while asleep all contribute to the content of dreams. Many times they contribute more than most people think. Gender affects many things, including the way we dream. ³Men typically dream about fighting, protecting, or competing in an outside environment; women are more likely to dream about relationships and loss in an inside environment² (Segell 42). Most men have been brought up with the notion that they must have more of a tendency of being aggressive. In this aggression they either dream about how aggressive they are or about the lack of aggression in their daily routine. Women, on the other hand, have typically been brought up to be more emotional than men. This up bringing has also affected the way women dream. ³Women are more likely to dial into their interior life whether awake or asleep² (Segell 42). This means that women will read into their dreams more frequently then men. Researchers have found that problems that occur during the day either at work or home and are worked through...
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