Let's Talk About Dream Interpretation

Dreams have always aroused the interest of people from all walks of life. Scientists have found in this problem a wide field of experiments and theories. In the following, we will briefly present a study by Prof. H. Roger, who researched the story of dreams for years.

"Sleep absorbs the third part of our life, which means that the third part of life, our consciousness is annulled. Sleep is sometimes peaceful, sometimes disturbed by sensations similar to those of the time we watch, and in this case, we dream.

Dreams impressed primitive peoples and allowed them to analyze body and soul alike. The Indians believe that in sleep the body remains in place, but the soul, which is a passing guest, leaves the body during sleep and when a man dies.

Leaving the body, the soul wanders at random, travels very far, talks to other souls, some of whom also came out of their bodies during sleep, and others on the occasion of death.

According to this theory, spirits worshiped or feared by the dead, gods and demons come during the night to give advice and commandments. That is why the dream was considered stronger than a confession because it was the communication of a higher, unseen world.

What studies say

Over time, people began to distinguish between dreams and tried to interpret them. This is where the "oneiromancy" created by Amfiction was born. A rich literature has been devoted to the interpretation of dreams.

A huge collection could be made of the works that dealt with the unraveling of dreams, because as Bayle says, "the spirits that give us visions during sleep are the evil spirits that amuse themselves by giving us riddles to unravel." Benjamin Franklin stated that through his dream he had repeatedly found the solution to the issues that interested him.

To this historical and certain fact, Cabanis replies that the worries of the day probably came back to him while he slept. Unconsciously, the problem was simpler and the solution seemed free from the game of different hypotheses. Today, science no longer deals with these predictions.

The discovery of the unconscious psychic life

The problem of dreams has moved in a new direction since modern works. Consciousness, our known and deliberate thoughts, occur in the higher centers of the cortex of the brain. The unconscious psychic life, the thoughts that we do not realize, but which still exist. This unconscious life of our mind exists.

We have proof at every step! For example, a schoolboy who tried to solve an arithmetic problem and had to sleep with the opinion that he would not have the lesson done, the problem being beyond his powers; in the morning when she wakes up, she is happy to find that she solves it very easily.

A writer sits at his desk in front of white sheets of paper, but inspiration doesn't come. He is unable to write two meaningful lines. Discouraged, he quits his job and doesn't even think about it. When after a few days he takes the case in hand, the ideas and phrases come running as if someone were dictating them. The explanation: in the meantime, the unconscious has worked and prepared everything.

The best example of unconscious psychic elaboration is given by a Maudsley observation. A mathematician was studying a geometry problem and could not find a solution. One night he dreamed of a perfect gentleman in a black suit and white tie - the scene was taking place in England - holding a geometric figure in one hand.

The mathematician looked at her for a long time, then smartly, took a pencil and reproduced what he had seen: it was the solution sought in vain on the eve.

Based on the above, the dream can be defined as "Discovering the unconscious psychic life." Or in other words: the demonstration of secrets that escape consciousness and the bringing to light of everything that has been closed in the unconscious.

Erotic interpretations of dreams

Freud founded the study of dreams on the science of psychoanalysis. According to him, the unconscious would have consisted of sexual desires, piled up, driven into this "unconscious" since childhood. All dreams would have an erotic meaning, often hidden under different appearances.

Even the strongest and most unrelated dreams would have a deep meaning, sometimes quite hard to think of. Freud interprets dreams in a way that at first astonished and then offended, especially the one who dreamed them. Freud's theory, which contains much of the truth, is exaggerated.

But the erotic interpretations of dreams did not escape the ancients either. In the dream, the lascivious images are accompanied by voluptuous manifestations. These led the Greeks to believe that during sleep there could be love bonds between mortals and the divine spirits of Olympus.