Dreams Research Papers
Elsa Salim Karam
Mrs. Petrosky
2nd D
April 3rd, 2012.
Dreams: The Field of our Subconscious.
Have you ever tried to understand your dreams, reveal the hidden message your subconscious is trying to make you see? Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. (Dictionary.com) Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, said that nothing occurs by chance. In fact, every action and thought is motivated by our subconscious. Still, to live in a civilized society, we tend to repress our urges and our impulses. However, these urges and impulses must be released in some manner; one of them are dreams. I therefore agree with Sigmund Freud in his statement: “The …show more content…
It is doing its job by protecting the conscious mind from the disturbances conjured by the unconscious. So, answering the question above, why do we dream? We dream to protect our sleep.
Dreams are also very helpful in retrieving long-lost memories. Repression is one of the most haunting concepts in psychology (Loftus, 1993). Something shocking happens, and the mind pushes it into some inaccessible corner of the unconscious, the Id. There, it sleeps for years, or even decades, or even forever-isolated from the rest of mental life. However, the memory may be retrieved, when one is ready to recall and deal with the trauma. When emerging to consciousness, it may take the form of dreams, sending images of the repressed memory. Over the years, there has been a rise in reported memories of childhood sexual abuse that were repressed for many years. Also, those people just recovering traumatic memories are suing alleged perpetrators for events that happened twenty, thirty or even forty years ago. Elizabeth F. Loftus, American psychologist, talks about repressed memories in her article The Reality of Repressed Memories . She shows several cases regarding repression. One of those blatant examples …show more content…
Though it has its advantages since dreaming is our key to sleeping and retrieving long-lost memories, it can also be harmful if it takes the toll on us and makes us forget who we really are, and where we belong. Dreams will always be one of psychology’s most amazing mysteries. “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
Mrs. Petrosky
2nd D
April 3rd, 2012.
Dreams: The Field of our Subconscious.
Have you ever tried to understand your dreams, reveal the hidden message your subconscious is trying to make you see? Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. (Dictionary.com) Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, said that nothing occurs by chance. In fact, every action and thought is motivated by our subconscious. Still, to live in a civilized society, we tend to repress our urges and our impulses. However, these urges and impulses must be released in some manner; one of them are dreams. I therefore agree with Sigmund Freud in his statement: “The …show more content…
It is doing its job by protecting the conscious mind from the disturbances conjured by the unconscious. So, answering the question above, why do we dream? We dream to protect our sleep.
Dreams are also very helpful in retrieving long-lost memories. Repression is one of the most haunting concepts in psychology (Loftus, 1993). Something shocking happens, and the mind pushes it into some inaccessible corner of the unconscious, the Id. There, it sleeps for years, or even decades, or even forever-isolated from the rest of mental life. However, the memory may be retrieved, when one is ready to recall and deal with the trauma. When emerging to consciousness, it may take the form of dreams, sending images of the repressed memory. Over the years, there has been a rise in reported memories of childhood sexual abuse that were repressed for many years. Also, those people just recovering traumatic memories are suing alleged perpetrators for events that happened twenty, thirty or even forty years ago. Elizabeth F. Loftus, American psychologist, talks about repressed memories in her article The Reality of Repressed Memories . She shows several cases regarding repression. One of those blatant examples …show more content…
Though it has its advantages since dreaming is our key to sleeping and retrieving long-lost memories, it can also be harmful if it takes the toll on us and makes us forget who we really are, and where we belong. Dreams will always be one of psychology’s most amazing mysteries. “The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”