Dream Research Dream Journal Creative Piece

a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a persons mind during sleep The Oxford College Dictionary The royal road to the unconscious Sigmund Freud facts that are invaluable for diagnosis Carl Jung

Dream Interpretation Past Research Studies The Opposition

The Key Players

Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung

Freddy Krueger

The Interpretation of Dreams

Freuds attempt to uncover the underlying processes

in the strangeness and obscurities of dreams

A means to deduce the nature of the psychic forces responsible

In spite of thousands of years of endeavour, little

progress has been made in the scientific understanding of dreams

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The relation of dreams to the waking state Dream material Use of insignificant, worthless details rather than important, urgent, far-reaching ones

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Dreams have at their disposal recollections which are inaccessible to the waking state. Sigmund Freud

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The dream clearly prefer impressions of the last few days (Robert, Strumpell, Hildebrandt; also WeedHallam) [The dream] makes a selection in accordance with principles other than those governing our waking memory, in that it recalls not essential and important, but subordinate and disregarded items Dreams can implement the earliest impressions of childhood, and can bring forth those details (even if trivial), and, in waking life, we believe them to have been long forgotten

Latent dream-content
Therapy attempted to interpret manifest dream-

content through this latent dream-content, or dreamthoughts, rather, via psychoanalysis

Previous attempts at interpretation focused solely on

manifest dream-content, but not the dreamthoughts.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Chapter 1: Dream Analysis in Its Practical Application We shouldtake [dream symbols] as expressions of something not yet consciously recognized or conceptually formulated For the purposes of therapy it is necessary for the patient to become conscious of the casual factors in his disturbance Nothing is unclear to the understanding; it is only when we fail to understand that things appear unintelligible and confused

we see that at least half a mans life is passed in [the nocturnal] realm, that consciousness has its roots there, and that the unconscious operates in and out of waking existence No one doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we question the importance of unconscious happenings?

The Statistics of Dreams Mary Whiton Collins One male, one female
Subject to study for 6-8 weeks

One male, one female

Male: 170 dreams in 46 nights Female: 205 dreams in 55 nights Neither subject considered themselves frequent dreamers

Highest count of dreams fell between 5:30am and 8:30am

Confirms opinion that most dreams occur during light

morning sleep However, another calculation suggest that vivid dreams are by no means confined to morning hours

Welcome to my world, b****! Freddy Krueger

Induced early Christians to distrust their sleeping visions as possibly satanic (From a large study) a considerable number of [repeated dreams in childhood are] nightmares

Sleep paralysis

Hows this for a wet dream? Freddy Krueger

Disregards Freud and his theories

Refers to dream books as archaic

Claims that dreams are simply the minds reaction to physiological stimulation
Ex: a cold toe could cause a dreamers heart rate to

quicken in order to warm the toe. The mental effect would play a scene of the dreamer running up a staircase (associated with quicker heart rate and faster breathing). Its regrettable that the actuality of the unconscious should still be a matter of controversy. Carl Jung

Salvador Dali

Used dreams to create surrealist paintings

The armchair technique

Admired Freud and his theories

Specifically: Psychoanalysis
His biggest obsession until WW2

Childhood Sexuality Death Drive

A device used to track dreams across a duration of time

A means of inner wisdom or newfound awareness upon reflection and notation of recurring elements

An excerpt:
Walking down an abandoned road, I see an ancient

church to my right. Its roof has been blown out by what couldve only been a volley of blitzkrieg, exposing its rafters. From those rafters, hang the hooded victims of a madman.

Recurring Themes (top 3) Isolation/Desolation Loss of Control Family & Darkness (Tied)

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*25 dream entries total

Autumnal Cannibalism Dali, c. 1936

Plot summary:
A college student travels across the countrys climates

encountering serial killers, fortune tellers, clowns, zombies and agitated bears.

Whether reality or a result of my drunken stupor, Fargo had become a favela. Lawns ceased to exist, roads narrowed, and houses had somehow condensed into tall, red and yellow cabins. Perhaps even stranger, were the streams of confused citizens flowing from the residences without purpose. I knew I had somewhere to be, somewhere to go, but it eluded me. Instead of lingering between streams, I decided to join my fellow travelers; I imagine the man behind me, whose rancid breath patted the back of my neck, didnt notice the addition. Police were dispersed sporadically in the streets, grimacing at civilians. The red and blue flashing lights of their squad cars absorbed all offering from the Sun above. We marched, aimlessly, toward some unknown destination like a drunken Trail of Tears.

I seem to have a yearning for isolation and desolation

More specifically, the solitude and freedom which

accompany

A fear of losing control is apparent

This may be a product of my schizophrenic cousin, who

tends to have uncontrolled moments

Family always comes first, and my dream persona never flinched when it came to defending them Death is either a fear or something Ive become accustomed to having frequently happen in my life

 Cindy Dr.

Nichols

Betsy Birmingham

and Freddy Krueger

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