Analysis: Analyzing My Dream

ANALYZING MY DREAM The other night I had a dream. My dream had thematic structure to it. There was a knock at my door. I walked down my hallway to open the door. The hallway in my dream was much longer then it truly is. As I opened the door, I realized I was naked. The man seemed familiar as if he were my friend, but his face was nobody I know. He stood at least 50 feet away from the door, waving. It was icy out but I decided to stand there, naked. I asked him what he wanted and he told me I needed to make "Thanksgiving Thankful Cards." I thanked him and came inside to make coffee. The man did not speak once more, but followed me the rest of the dream. I carefully put the right amount of cream in my coffee and kept lifting the sugar up and

That too, could represent the disconnection I have been feeling from being so busy. This would be an example of condensation. Freud believed during dream work, there are many processes the dream goes through. Condensation is one, it 's the combination of two or more images or ideas into one. The dream work, condensed two different thoughts by looking for an uncertain image in which the two thoughts came together as a man standing 50 feet away. The need of them being more in my life, was fulfilled in my dream. The knife is manifest content, and it representing the phallus would be the latent content. As stated before, Freud thought sex is the basis of what occurs in our dreams. Guns, knives and any object long and slender represents the penis. Cutting my pillow perhaps could by my search to be healed from the pain in my neck or the pillow could have represented my Doctor telling me my neck is on phase one of deteriorating. I let out my aggression on the pillow. If perhaps my doctor was the pillow, this would be the dream work processes in displacement. Displacement takes place when a transformation of a person are concerned about or have strong feelings about turns into something or someone else. Freud would interpret this as my unconscious mind turning my Doctor into a pillow. If it were to have been my Doctor, I would have felt guilty, so my unconscious mind protected me. My home in my dream was a lot larger than it really is. The latent content would be that I may worry about security for myself and appearance to others. This would also fall under the condensation process of turning troubling thoughts and discomforts into more desirable