Research Paper on Dreams
Dream Interpretation: How it Can Lead to a Happier and Healthier Life.
Everyone in the world has had at least one dream in their lifetime. Most people do not think much about the dreams that they have, unless they are recurring. Dreaming is “a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during REM sleep.” Most people today wake up from a dream or nightmare saying, “thank god that was a dream,” or “too bad that was just a dream.” Many times these dreams or nightmares have more meaning than we may think. If people took more time to consider the meaning behind the dreams they have, then dream interpretation could be used as a means to help resolve issues in our awaken lives, including helping to treat many psychiatric disorders, phobias, and more, therefore helping people to lead happier and healthier life’s. This paper reviews the theories of dreams of probably the two most important and influential people in the study of dream interpretation, and then discusses another psychiatrist’s own point of view on dreaming that he composed with extensive research on both Freud and Jung’s theories. Although these three theories differ, they all back up the same idea that understanding our dreams can help us to understand ourselves, and live a much happier and fulfilled life.
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in the Czech Republic, and had a specialized degree in psychiatry. He had many works in his life, but in 1896 he came up with the study of the mental (as opposed to physical) causes of mental disorders, which he named “psychoanalysis.” Freud was known as “the father of psychoanalysis.” (1) In 1899 he wrote his most famous work, The Interpretation of Dreams, and switched his main focus to analyzing dreams. Sigmund Freud was very aware of the importance of our dreams, and always referred to them as a “royal road” to interpreting the unconscious state of mind. He considered dreams to be a window into our unconscious, where our
Everyone in the world has had at least one dream in their lifetime. Most people do not think much about the dreams that they have, unless they are recurring. Dreaming is “a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during REM sleep.” Most people today wake up from a dream or nightmare saying, “thank god that was a dream,” or “too bad that was just a dream.” Many times these dreams or nightmares have more meaning than we may think. If people took more time to consider the meaning behind the dreams they have, then dream interpretation could be used as a means to help resolve issues in our awaken lives, including helping to treat many psychiatric disorders, phobias, and more, therefore helping people to lead happier and healthier life’s. This paper reviews the theories of dreams of probably the two most important and influential people in the study of dream interpretation, and then discusses another psychiatrist’s own point of view on dreaming that he composed with extensive research on both Freud and Jung’s theories. Although these three theories differ, they all back up the same idea that understanding our dreams can help us to understand ourselves, and live a much happier and fulfilled life.
Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in the Czech Republic, and had a specialized degree in psychiatry. He had many works in his life, but in 1896 he came up with the study of the mental (as opposed to physical) causes of mental disorders, which he named “psychoanalysis.” Freud was known as “the father of psychoanalysis.” (1) In 1899 he wrote his most famous work, The Interpretation of Dreams, and switched his main focus to analyzing dreams. Sigmund Freud was very aware of the importance of our dreams, and always referred to them as a “royal road” to interpreting the unconscious state of mind. He considered dreams to be a window into our unconscious, where our