The scientific study of dreams, conducted from a cognitive perspective since the 1960s, suggests that dreams have a meaning, as suggested by the old and early psychoanalysts. Freud suggested that they represent unconscious desires, while Jung assumed that dreams are a form of consciousness of which the conscious mind is not aware. The continuity hypothesis suggests that dreams often reflect and represent waking experiences.It has been found that many people, like Freud, regard dreams as connected with the unconscious, as buried desires and memories.
Cognitive theorists have quantified the dream world in laboratory studies, in which participants wake up from different sleep stages to report their memories of dreams. REM sleep releases memories stored in the brain, and dreams are therefore not random memories, but rather random memories that are activated by electrical impulses. In addition, dreams are thought to help solve problems and consolidate memories. Dreams can close past events and bring sadness or happiness, or they can scare someone.
According to Freud, dreams consist of a psychoanalytic perspective, and the content of dreams is related to desire fulfillment. Freud also suggested that dreams are representations of unconscious desires, thoughts, and motivations. Others believe that the dream is a representation of the occurrence and meaning of the dream, as the brain is tied to the interpretation of external stimuli during sleep. It is claimed that a dream has a manif-content consisting of actual images and thoughts, containing latent content that represents the psychological meaning hidden within it.
Freudian dream theory seems to be generally supported by people, but some people suffer from a sleep disorder in which they physically live out their dreams during sleep, known as REM Behavior Disorder (RBD). Other theories suggest that dreams help solve problems and form memories, or that they arise simply by chance brain activation. There is a belief that dreams reveal hidden emotions and desires, and there is some evidence of this, as in the case of people with post-traumatic stress disorder. In some cases, the pursuit of dreams can be dangerous for an individual or a bed partner.
In keeping with the psychoanalytic perspective, Sigmund Freud’s dream theory suggests that dreams are a combination of the unconscious and the conscious, and a mixture of both. According to his view of personality, people are driven by suppressed desires, fears, desires and other emotions that undermine conscious consciousness. In the following, we describe in detail how this explanation can be applied to certain dreams and how it works.
Sigmund Freud saw his dreams as an expression of suppressed conflicts and desires, often of a sexual nature, which interested him particularly in terms of sexual arousal and sexual desire. Carl Jung took a more rigorous approach, explaining dreams as a means to release the deep subconscious and to involve higher regions of the brain in a narrative. Some imaging devices, including PET scans and MRIs, take things deeper and to a more technical level, speculating that dreaming is a way to squander excess data, consolidate important information, protect us from dangers, and much more.
Dreaming is the awakening introspection of emotionally awakening feelings and thoughts, but not acting on them while we are awake. The explanation for why people dream comes from Dr. John D. Dornbach, professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego. For the brain to complete an arousal cycle, it must do so in the outer world, and we do not complete it in our outer worlds.
Research by Michel Jouvet suggests that this instinctive behavior is programmed into the REM state of fetuses and newborns. In fact, research has shown that our ability to process emotions increases with the amount of REM sleep a person gets. Interestingly, this research also points the way to increased empathy in people who share their dreams with others. Dreams can help us to deal with and promote the community and interpersonal support.
A dream – healing vantage point is supported by the often emotionally charged content that many people report in their dreams. The bright side has learned that there are dreams that we all share, and the model of emotional regulation suggests that dreams function as a safe environment that allows dreamers to connect different thoughts and emotions and to cope with unsettling experiences in a safer environment.