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Dream Interpretation
By: Rafaela Avila
General Psychology M-W-F 10:00am
May 5, 2017
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I like to call myself a daydreamer, since I constantly drift into my own

thoughts and think about the past, present, and future. We all know we do

not have to sleeping is not required to dream, although, I love to sleep and

have deep curiosity of what happens when we sleep and start having a

dream. Growing up in a Mexican family a dream always had a meaning. The

funny thing about it is till this day I still call my mother to help me find the

meaning behind a dream I had the night before. I am a big believer in

positive and negative energy and so I believe our dreams can be interpret as

such into positive and negatives energy. Unaware of who Sigmund Freud was

and his theory with dreams I found it interesting. I do not agree 100% on

everything he believed, but do see some truth on some of it. The more I

educate myself and the more I do research the more fascinated I am by him.

He was a very smart man yet in my opinion somewhat crazy. I guess you

cannot be normal if you are a genus or a revolutionary.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist. His focus were three

things, the unconscious mind, child sexuality and the interpretation of

dreams. He was the first to develop free association in which he would let

the patient talk about whatever they felt like, being non- judgmental. He

believed that dreams had a meaning and that a dream was the unconscious

mind telling the dreamer something about their past or current life. I do

believe that some dreams do mean something yet sometimes they are

meaningless. Yes, a dream can be something your unconscious mind is

trying to tell you but that is not always the case. A dream can be something
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that was left in your mind and you just never really gave it a thought. I often

find myself dreaming of conversations I had months before with someone, in

which case do not really mean anything. Our mind is full of wonders and

never stops working, to me that explains why sometimes I end up having

dreams from the past. Yet I do believe that some might have a different

meaning. I like to read about dreams and google my dreams if I feel deep in

my heart it might have a meaning.

Furthermore, when I say, I do not agree with him 100% is because I do

not believe my dreams have anything to do with my childhood. Yes, I might

have memories that come back as dreams but I do not believe they are

fantasys I had as a child it is a simply a memory coming back as a dream. I

also do not believe my dreams have anything to do with a sexual meaning. I

think he was on the right path when it came to the mind and the way people

think, but I also think he took it too far. Maybe he was focused on what he

felt and made it about others. As the founding father of psychoanalysis

people till this day look up to him. He is a very important man for treating

mental illness and theory of human behavior. On 24 July 1895, Freud had his

own dream that was to form the basis of his theory. (Mcleod, 2013) In my

opinion, this dream of his was to clear his guilt. In the article, It says how he

was worried he could not help a patient and by him having this dream he

was able to blame someone else for the women mental health issues. Again,

making himself feel better because he was not able to help the lady. I believe
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he himself had many issues and just never really took them into

consideration.

In addition, now-a-days dreams seem to have different interpretations

based on culture and religion. People can have the same dream and interpret

it differently. The thing about that is the time difference, people back in

Freuds time were not as open as we are now-a-days. In our era, we have

many books about dreams and the different meanings behind them. In all

honesty, I did not know who Sigmund Freud was until this class. What I also

found very interesting was he believes that nothing you do occurs by

chance; every action and thought is motivated by your unconscious at some

levels. (dream theorist, n.d.) They also mention that According to Freud,

the reason you struggle to remember dreams, is because the superego is at

work. (Dream Theorist, n.d.) I really wish I could remember all my dreams

and I do not believe that my superego is not allowing me to remember. I find

dreams fascinating and plan on learning more about it.

Regardless of the way we all feel about dreams and Sigmund Freuds

theory nobody is going to be right. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion

and there is no right or wrong answer. We can only educate ourselves and

make what we want of our dreams. I choose to believe there is a meaning

behind some of my dreams yet my husband thinks I am crazy for that. He

thinks I put too much into my dreams and I should not worry about

meaningless stuff. Freud believed dreams to be an expression of a

repressed wish that we would rather not admit to. (Dream Interpretation
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Dictionary, n.d.) This is the reason he began using the Free Association

method, by which he gave the patient the power to free their thoughts. I

believe this method was one of his best. I do not feel my dreams are

repressed to things I do not wish to admit, yet I can see the meaning behind

that. In the 1800s people were closed minded by our standards and maybe

that was the way they got what they wanted by dreaming. Admitting to a

sexual fantasy in those days was not looked right. Now-a-days we are very

open even when it comes to sexuality. I am nobody to judge anyone or their

dreams. Yes, I find Sigmund Freud very interesting and crazy but admire him

for standing out with his crazy theories which made him who he is today. I

guess being a little crazy can take you places, and what I mean by crazy is

open to exploring more than one can imagine. The mind is a very power tool

we must learn how to use it to our own beneficial.

Works Cited
Dream Interpretation Dictionary. (n.d.). Retrieved from Freud Dream
Interpretation.
dream theorist. (n.d.). Retrieved from dream moods:
http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud.ht
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Dream Theorist. (n.d.). Retrieved from Dream Moods:
http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud.ht
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Mcleod, S. (2013). Sigmund Freud. Retrieved from Simply Psychology:
http://www.simplypsychology.org/Sigmund-Frued.html
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