The Meaning of Our Dreams

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Throughout our lives we have experienced the activity of dreaming, but have we ever wondered if there was a hidden meaning behind it? We go to sleep, than dream, than wake up and not even remembering the slightest parts of our dreams. After a while we just seem to accept it as a normal thing and not look deeper into it any further. Dreams can be mysterious even frightening because it can change suddenly with unusual elements, but understanding the meaning of our dreams can be very insightful. Like the famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud stated that dreams are a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts, emotions, actions and motivations. I believe that dreams are a road to the unconscious mind and are a way of discovering oneself. Not only do we dream for wish fulfillment, but also to solve problems more effectively in our daily lives.
One of the meanings we can interpret from dreams is discovering true personal thoughts, emotions, and desires. As mentioned earlier Sigmund Freud, suggest from his book The Interpretation of Dreams that he believes the content of a dream was disguised as the unconscious wishes of the dreamer. No matter what kind or type of dream we have, can be seen as a way of obtaining something that you want. However, another dream theorist Carl Jung shared some belief with Freud to a degree, but states “Dreams revealed both the personal and collective unconscious and believed that symbolic objects or figures in dreams represented attitudes that are repressed by the conscious mind.” Dreams are a way of communicating with the spirit, mind, and body in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. By contrast Freud, who believed that symbols represented unconscious thoughts, Jung believed that by in...

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