Dreams, revealing or not?
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We all dream and you would lie if you say you have not wondered what your dreams mean or if they are telling you something.
Since Descartes and Socrates, Freud and Jung, the world's best known philosophers and psychoanalysts have weighed in on this specific subject.
Are our dreams a window into our unconscious selves like Freud and Jung believed or are they merely the not so meaningful by products of sleep-related neural firings?
Studies done by dream researchers show that people tend to believe that their dreams reveals hidden truths about themselves and the world around them. This research in fact showed that people's dreams carried more weight than their conscious thoughts. People think that their dreams are revealing truths about their hidden emotions and beliefs more so than what they are thinking when they are awake.
They also found that people do not give the same value to all their dreams, some are more important to them than others.
The research showed that a person would most likely change his/ her travel plans after dreaming about a crash than after hearing or thinking about it. It also showed that a persons anxiety levels is just as high dreaming about the crash than hearing about it. Think about yourself sometimes we wake up and our heart is still pounding , you feel you are still in the dream and have to make sure you are not. Sometimes we can still feel the effect of that dreams for a while after we had it.
The research revealed that we considered unpleasant dreams more meaningful if they are about someone we dislike. We would perceive a pleasant dream more meaningful when it is about someone we liked. You can decide for yourself how you feel about this one.
As a rule we all consider dreams as meaningful until they are coming in conflict with our existing beliefs and desires, then we tend to attribute less meaning to them.
We can see that we still need to do a lot of research about this topic to fully understand how we interpret dreams and if they are indeed full of hidden information.
Hope you have good dreams tonight......
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