Thursday, November 15, 2007

Dreams first draft

”Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious”- Freud

While we sleep the unconscious self takes a journey exploring thoughts in our minds. I believe that dreams are important, most of the time they represent something. Or try to tell you something. Through dreams the unconscious self is able to reveal hidden desires, wants/wishes, fears. Sometimes a dream can also show a memory that we experienced while we were awake. Our dreams are able to create an alter reality where we are able to runaway from life’s problems. Since we repress these feelings while we are awake, while we are in the dreaming state our conscience spills the repressed thoughts and feelings into our unconscious mind. Many people don’t remember their dreams, and when they are able to remember, often overlook it. “Sleep is often the only occasion which man cannot silence his conscience, but the tragedy of it is that when we do hear our conscience speak in sleep, we cannot act and that when able to act we forget what we know in our dream”.
Trying to make sense of our dreams when we are able to remember them is a challenge. You could interpret your dream to be one thing, and when you tell someone else, they could interpret it differently.

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