DREAMS

Dreams

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Dreams” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Dreams” and its relation with “the theories that were discussed by different theorists”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “functions of dreaming” and tries to gauge its effect on “different theories”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for “dreaming”.

Dreams

Introduction

Today there is a general consensus that dreams are a creation of the individual mind. Every dream is connected with its own "reality." Therefore, to interpret, it is important to put in the context of your experiences and personal life. To dream is to open a door of mind. All the hopes, ambitions, desires, fears, ghosts, friends, good and bad times living there are a part of the primitive mind and provide a path to realities that are beyond the scope of logic. Sleep is an act that refers to any image, thought or sentiment, which is attributed to the person, who is in a physical state prior to wake up and varies depending on the characteristics of the individual whether cultural and / or biological and nature of sleep, that is, their frequency, quality, quantity and its type.

Discussion

Human beings have long been fascinated by dreams and the possibility that dreaming was an activity during which meaningful information was being conveyed, albeit in a disguised form and/or from an unknown, supernatural source. Sigmund Freud argues that dreams contain meaningful information about the dreamer. In particular, He assumes that dreams contain hidden thoughts and links to experiences in life that the dreamer would, more often than not, choose to forget. Psychodynamic defense mechanisms that are at work during the day to keep certain thoughts and anxieties repressed and away from our consciousness seem to relax during sleep and the unconscious material gains expression, albeit in a distorted and disguised manner. Sigmund believes that dreams, once deciphered, reveal authentic information about the dreamer and, in particular, source of anxiety that prompted psychodynamic defense mechanisms being engaged in the first place (Domhoff, 1996).

Seligman's Thoughts

What is certain is that in sleep cognitive activities have a chaotic organization and that our brain is not willing to admit the chaos. In this Seligman (1987) describes an experiment in which simultaneous emission of a melody subjects showed lights that flashed on and off in a totally random. Most of the subjects claimed that the behavior of the lights followed the melody.

Following this reasoning, the interpretation given by Seligman (1987) of dreams is that they are cognitive processing that attempts to give coherence to the chaotic stimuli that generate physiological functions that have been described in the above. The attempt to rationalize the dream begins at the moment it occurs and continues as it is narrated or written to strengthen his memory. Seligman distinguishes two types of content in sleep. Those who have a high definition visual and emotional content that correspond to very specific and identifiable incentives and those phases are blurred ...