23 of the 70 years of our life (on average, of course) we sleep. We have been dreaming for eight years. Nice and nightmarish, colorful and gray, giving answers to questions and meaningless, prophetic and deja vu, those dreams that we forget a couple of minutes after waking up, and those that remain in our memory for years. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the views of Sigmund Freud on the nature of dreams. Modern scientists have a lot of complaints about the theories of the Austrian psychiatrist, but his non-standard thinking deserves attention.
It is clear that behind the daily hustle and bustle there is no time for dreams, their magic and interpretations. But eight years … At least I wonder what is behind the years of illusory images. Mystic? Physiology? There are no definite answers. A great variety of theories of dreams have accumulated over the period from the birth of civilizations to the present day. The ancient priests as well as modern psychologists and neurophysiologists were interested in night dreams.
To begin with, during sleep, brain cells are involved in the classification and ordering of information received during wakefulness. New information is processed, sorted, compared with that formed by the experience of the past, and sent to the desired cell for long-term storage.
According to Freud's theory, unfulfilled desires are often pushed out of the field of consciousness and move into the sphere of the unconscious, where they persist, continuing to influence human behavior.
In an effort to break through into consciousness, repressed desires come into conflict with conscious representations and prevail over them during dreams, daytime dreams, and so on. Therefore, according to a correctly interpreted dream, one can judge the unconscious experiences of a person.
Sigmund Freud believed that dreams are an opportunity to release our hidden desires and thoughts. That is, what our consciousness has hidden, the subconscious has found. We may recall that with a poor experience and events in real life, dreams are vivid, memorable and full of adventures - something that we cannot afford in reality.
Types of dreams
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The Austrian scientist identified three types of dreams.
1. The reaction of the soul to external or somatic stimuli that act on the sleeper.
2. Preconscious. These are daytime impressions (perceived images, thoughtful thoughts, experiences), which a person is fully aware during the day, while awake, when they are actually experienced (conscious), or is not actually aware, but can freely recall. Remnants, scraps of these daytime impressions appear in the dream.
3. Unconscious, repressed desires. These are desires that are ethically, aesthetically and socially unacceptable. Selfish desires, such as sexual desires (including - and especially - prohibited by society, such as incest). Hatred (“desires for revenge and death to those closest and loved in life - parents, brothers and sisters, spouse or spouse, own children - are nothing unusual. These censored desires seem to rise from the real hell; censorship against them does not seem to us strict enough”).
Sleep censorship
Sleep censorship is a very interesting phenomenon. In the process of displacement-replacement of images hidden from our consciousness in the corners of the brain, a new one is created - a hint of some event, an image. These hints, if interpreted correctly, can, and sometimes should be used.
For example, you have probably heard about the connection between diseases and our dreams (by the way, both scientists and doctors have already agreed with this). It flooded us with earth in a dream, crushed something - it came veiled signals about a failure in the work of the heart. A feeling of powerlessness, inability to move, and the like speaks of hypotension. Etc. But rarely does our brain dream of notifying us of a fatal disease (such as cancer). Our brain even in a dream includes protection: if some warning sublimated image breaks into our consciousness, it will be deceptively comfortable and beautiful.
A natural question arises, what is the practical use of explaining dreams? Often the reason for our sadness is hidden in the dark corners of the subconscious. Taking out our secret fears and unfulfilled desires from there, it is easier for us to make the right decisions, make choices, thereby getting rid of psychological problems, depression, reducing the share of sadness in our lives.
Interpretation of dreams
Let's move on to fun practice.
We will not explain "explicit" dreams. Everything is simple with them. For example, you quit smoking - in a dream you take out cigarettes, in reality you are on a diet - in a dream you knead pies and choose a larger piece of cake. It is much more fun to understand the hidden content.
The Interpretation of Dreams is Freud's most remarkable work. He showed that sleep is not nonsense, but a distorted, disguised realization of repressed desire. The interpretation of dreams is based on the concept of unconscious sexual desires. Therefore, many people call Freud's dream book also an erotic dream book. Now let's see what the most common dreams mean, according to the father of psychoanalysis.
Sea
The sea that you see in a dream from afar suggests that you currently think of sex as something inaccessible and unreal. In fact, the reason for this appearance is your attitude towards your own appearance, which does not give you the opportunity to completely relax and enjoy.
If in a dream you saw yourself bathing in the sea, this means that at the present time you feel great, you are doing well, and the reason for this is a full-fledged sex life, although until now you did not attach any importance to it.
Music
In general, dream music has a good meaning, especially if you liked it and enjoyed it a lot. Such a dream suggests that everything is harmonious in your life, you can call yourself a happy person. You are full of optimism and faith in the future, you are sure that everything is within your power.
An exam you're not ready for
Indicates a constant feeling of insecurity or feeling like someone is evaluating or judging you. In this case, the scenery of the dream can change, it can be, for example, a public speech, auditions, and the like.
Lost tooth
Sleep may indicate problems with loved ones. You lack their attention or understanding. Also talks about aggression.
The pursuit
Sleep can indicate the existence of a serious stressful situation.
Death or injury
Such a dream usually indicates some aspect of a person's daily life that has recently begun to manifest itself less.
Flight
Indicates a desire to avoid something, to get rid of a situation.
Appearing in public inappropriately dressed or naked
You feel vulnerable and ashamed.
Natural disasters
Personal problems have overwhelmed you so much that you feel as if your whole life is completely out of control.
Falling from height
And this dream suggests that you have lost control over some situation and cannot figure out how to cope with it.
LERA MERZLYAKOVA