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Abstract

For this paper, our basic understanding and comprehension of the issues and concerns regarding the comprehension and occurrence of dreams and their influence into our lives. In this paper, our basic understanding and focus of comprehension shall revolve around how far and wide can dreams influence and change our course of understanding and our perception of life as we speak. Using Freud's approach and theory, the paper revolves around the kind of findings and analysis that had been done primarily regarding dreams and their individual analysis.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Background of the Research1

Problem Statement1

Significance of the Study2

Limitations of the Study2

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW3

History of Dreams and Dreaming3

Henri Ellenberger and Lucid Dreaming4

Challenge #1: Going beyond dates and events14

Challenge #2: Retrospective applications of the term “Lucid Dreaming.”15

Challenge #3: Working with translated texts16

Challenge #4: The changing meaning of keywords over time16

CHAPTER 03: METHODOLOGY17

Research Design17

CHAPTER 04: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS18

The Enlightenment18

Dreams and the Enlightenment18

Moses Maimonides19

CHAPTER 05: CONCLUSION21

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Background of the Research

Historical English language texts referencing the concept of being aware of dreaming while dreaming were analyzed. Literature published between 1770 and 1920 was included in the study. A considerable amount of previously unrecognized material on lucid dreaming was discovered. Histographical analysis indicated a discernable evolution in the development of the lucid dreaming concept. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Thomas Reid and James Beattie, two prominent Scottish Common Sense philosophers, popularized the idea of becoming aware of dreaming as a way to end disagreeable dreams.

In the second half of the 19th century, this preventative role of lucid dreaming was extended to include discussions of consciously avoiding or curtailing presumably harmful nocturnal emissions occurring during dreams. Expansive views of sleep entered the mesmeric literature in the early 19th century, at approximately the same time that transcendent views of dreaming were discussed by Romantic authors. However, neither movement prominently featured the idea of being aware of dreaming while dreaming.

References to being aware of dreaming could also be found in theological and chronological discussions. Around the middle of the 19th century, a few spiritualist authors began to write about lucid dreaming as transcendent and supernatural phenomena.

Problem Statement

The problem statement for this research study shall be 'identifying the relationship between dreams to reality and actual circumstances occurring in a person's life'.

Significance of the Study

With the study undertaken, our initial hypothesis shall encircle and make way for the development and understanding of dreams and their occurrences around us. In addition to this, it shall also ...