A dream is not your creative vision for your life in the future.
You must break out your current comfort zone and become
comfortable with the unfamiliar and unknown.
-Denis Waitley-
DREAMS are series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring to sleep; a resemblance or reality or event occurring to one asleep; condensed, elaborate, symbolized, or otherwise distorted images of memories of unconscious impulse experienced especially during the sleep but also during other lapses in attention the meaning of which is concealed from the ego; also: the verbal or written report of images or experiences (Merriam- Webster Dictionary).
This study is mainly about why people dream, its importance and interpretation or guess of what our dream means. This study aims to help us answer some of our questions about dreams and help us to perform our tasks specifically to describe the subconscious mind versus conscious mind, to explain the reasons why we dream, and to know the importance of dreams and enable us to know or interpret what it means. The significances of the study are for us to explain how and why our subconscious minds especially dreams, influence conscious mind and vice versa; for us to know the reasons why we dream; help us in answering some of our questions and problems related to dreams; and to help us guessing or understanding what our dreams mean.
According to Cecini, A.(1992.pp.39-52), Freud considered dreams as the royal road to the understanding of the unconscious, because the state of sleep weakens the internal censor. All of us dream four to five times every night, though we may not remember them. Dreams are the guardian of sleep. In fact, it is possible to find the testimonies of dreams in somatic modifications which occur during sleep. Through the analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG graph), four different phases of depths can be identified in sleep. In general, sleep is deeper in the beginning of the night and continues to diminish in depth. In certain cases there is a second phase of deep sleep in the second half of the night.
Dreams can never be photographed. In fact, as the self centers the area of logical thought little by little, it introduces in its dream a logical state, and by narrating, fulfills a “secondary elaboration” that is an unconscious process of censure and selection. Repressed impulses are expressed through dreams, also tendencies or interests, in which the individual does not have a clear knowledge. Dreams offer us the possibility of expressing certain unconscious aspects of our own selves, not only those censured, as was maintained by Freud, but also the affective side of which we do not have full knowledge, as held by the cognitive theory of Jung who sees dreams as the expression of the desire to know. Then the dream would absolve the function of indicating what are the important themes for the development of the personality that still remain in the shadow.
The conscious impulses are responsible for dreams and that the aim of the dream is the gratification of some drive. The real meaning of the dream (its latent content) is not expressed directly but appears in disguised form. What is remembered in this disguised form is the manifest content of the dream. Freud declares that dreams represented pent-up emotional stresses and the basic desires that we repress or deny. In sleep with the “social censor” off guard, these repressed forces thrust to the surface as dreams. We can see, then why psychoanalysis attached such great importance to the content of the dreams. According to the psychoanalysis theory, dreams are clues to a person’s personality.
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