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Dream Interpretation

Everybody dreams. However some people want to know what their dreams mean. That's where dream interpretation comes into the picture. Some people consider this a science some people consider it an art. But there is no doubt it's a useful skill especially when someone wants to learn what their dreams mean.

In ancient cultures such as Greece and Egypt dreams were thought to be communications from the gods. It was often left up to sorcerers and astrologers and other soothsayers to interpret dreams. There were temples in ancient Greece where people could go to be cured of various conditions. It was believed that the gods would cure them with divine grace delivered through dreams. Therefore, it was necessary to have someone on-site, usually a priest, who could help them understand their dreams and the god's plan for them. In ancient Egypt dream interpretation was one of the duties of a priest. The Bible records stories of David and Joseph interpreting dreams. There are even hieroglyphics that depict dreams and the process of interpreting them.

Dream analysis became popular in psychology with the work of Sigmund Freud. He published a book in 1899 called The Interpretation of Dreams. He claimed that dreams express people's desires and inner wishes. He also held that dreams were always based on the previous day's events. Freud developed the concept of the inner censor as the regulating portion of the mind that communicated through dreams. He later changed the name to the super ego.

According to Freud people have various resistances. In other words when they are awake they self censored themselves. They control their actions and even their conscious thoughts. The often strange nature of dreams is due to the fact that the filters are still in place even when people sleep. Freud came up with a standard set of distortions that were present in dreams, and applied these in dream interpretation. He used these to analyze the patient based on the imagery present in the dream.

In Freud's dream analysis nightmares did not mean something bad happening in a person's real-life. Rather, they were an expression of the ego's frustration at being suppressed. It is often thought that everything in Freud's dream interpretation had to do with sex. But Freud himself expressed frustration that his work with dream interpretation was often wrongly applied to this result.

Dream interpretation can be an interesting hobby.


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Screen Dreams Launches App for Samsung Smart TVs? 1 Feb 2012 at 10:30am
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Fact Finder: Lucid Dreams 2 Feb 2012 at 10:12pm
We typically have them when we're sleeping. One might have a couple a night or none at all. We're talking about dreams. Webster describes them as a series of thoughts, images or emotions occurring during sleep. But can you do what's called lucid dreaming or control your dreams? Learn the answer in this Fact Finder report.

Will Scam Kill Athlete's Olympic Dreams? 5 Feb 2012 at 6:33am
It was a story too good to be true -- and it wasn't. In reality, Tongan luger Bruno Banani, who supposedly shares a name with a German underwear company, was rechristened as part of a guerrilla-marketing plot. But will that now shatter his Olympic dreams?

Kia Motors Dreams up Super Bowl Commercial Starring Supermodel Adriana Lima, ... 3 Feb 2012 at 5:00am
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Electric vehicle dreams dashed 5 Feb 2012 at 5:27am
For politicians betting on electric vehicles to drive job growth, the view from inside Think City's plant is their worst nightmare: 100 unfinished vehicles lined up with no word whether they will be completed.

John Jesurun?s ?Stopped Bridge of Dreams? at La MaMa 30 Jan 2012 at 4:30am
Stopped Bridge of Dreams Preston Martin and Black-Eyed Susan star in this 75-minute production at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theater.

Subconscious Overload Dreams 31 Jan 2012 at 8:14am
Subconscious overload dreams are dreams that seem to make no sense, and are filled with events from our day. Most people believe that the majority of their dreams are just the subconscious mind blowing off steam, when in fact these dreams remain in the minority of dream types.

Tweet dreams are made of this 5 Feb 2012 at 10:26am
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch's entree into the world of social networking may have been a bit bumpy, with a retracted rant on Britain's economy and an impostor pretending to be his wife, Wendi Deng, when he jumped on the Twitter bandwagon a month ago, but he's embracing it with a vengeance. In a flurry of tweets yesterday, the 80-year-old News Corporation boss made what looked like an ...

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Redding's Big League Dreams, a complex that cost taxpayers $15.8 million and was expected to have a significant impact on tourism and pour ongoing revenue into city coffers, has come up well short of its vision. The facility continues to be hammered by the harsh economy and faces another tough year.


 

 

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