What you think about dreams?

Answer 1

Dreams are a naturally occurring phenomenon and do no harm. Sometimes, they help you figure out real life issues or see a past event in a different way. Some foods seem (to me) to trigger certain kinds of dreams. I've found myself thinking about a dream and wondering how I ever came up with that!

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Sigmund Freud was a psychoanalyst who claimed dreams were forms of wish fulfilment or attempts by the unconscious to resolve some conflict experienced by the sleeper, no matter whether recent or in the past.

People who awaken with the answer to a problem on which they've been working, or remembering where they've lost an object, or the sudden focus and solution to an issue that previously had been unsolvable, can vouch for the verity of this theory.

Dream information in the unconscious is often disturbing; a censor in the ppreconscious will thus not allow it to past unaltered into the conscious.

So the sleeper's "preconscious" attempts to protect us by forcing the unconscious to soften the meaning of its information in order to make it through the censorship. Thus, according to Freud, images in dreams are not what they appear to be.

The nature of dreams seem to vary according to the dreamer. For example, many people have the ability to realize they are within a dream and can thus control their actions while dreaming. They feel free to do something they would not do if awake. Other people who have a high level of confidence are able to fly, and they claim it's a feeling of wonder and awe, lasting hours into their waking world.

Situations in dreams can be equivalent, or even more powerful, to similar circumstances when awake. Successful actions in dreams can actually empower one to accomplish the same or better when awake since one has already, in memory, done the deed.

Dreams are powerful and effective.