Dreams

 Hi teacher and classmates! How are you?

Well, today I´m going to talk about “the dreams”. This topic is very interesting to me. Mainly, because I´m intrigued by their meanings. Dreams are manifestations of mental images, sounds, thoughts and feelings in an individual sleeper, and usually related to reality.

Dreams can last for a few seconds, or as long as twenty minutes. People are more likely to remember the dream if they are awakened during the REM phase. (last stage of sleep).

According to some scientists, the person has 3 to 5 dreams per night. The most wonderful of dreams, is that they range from normal and ordinary to overly surreal and bizarre. Dreams can have varying natures, such as frightening, exciting, magical, melancholic, adventurous, or sexual.

Opinions about the meaning of dreams have varied and shifted through time and culture.

The psychotherapist Sigmund Freud developed a theory that the content of dreams is driven by unconscious wish fulfillment. He theorized that the content of dreams reflects the dreamer's unconscious mind and specifically that dream content is shaped by unconscious wish fulfillment.

Freud's difference:

Dreams with manifest content: is superficial and meaningless.

Dreams with latent content: relates to deep unconscious wishes or fantasies

Freud developed a psychological technique to interpret dreams and devised a series of guidelines to understand the symbols and motifs that appear in our dreams.

As data, a study conducted by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology concluded that most people believe that "their dreams reveal meaningful hidden truths". (1)

Good bye! I hope you have a good weekend.

(1)     Cloud, John (February 25, 2009). "Why dreams mean less than we think". Time magazine. Retrieved October 26, 2011.