Do you feel ‘Dreams are the guardians of sleep’ ?
‘The Interpretation of Dreams’, published in 1900, Sigmund
Freud suggested that dreams occur when feelings and ideas
unacceptable to the individual threaten to disturb his sleep. He
believed that the conscious mind tries to sleep at night. At the
same time, the unconscious mind, the storehouse of feeling
and idea that the individual has apparently forgotten, tries to
release some of its deep-seated hatreds, angers, and
frustrations. Freud conceived of dreams as a safety valve, a
compromise between the body’s need to rest and the
unconscious mind’s need to release some of its tensions. He
described dreams as unconscious wishes or fears
wearing “disguises” that make them more acceptable to one’s
moral code.
My dreams are a pain in the a $$. For instance, last night I dreamed that I was lost in a nearby city and everybody I called on my cell phone refused to come pick me up so I had to walk home. Then, I dreamed about a series of decapitations (animal and human) and I dreamed that an old childhood friend died in childbirth.
Since I wake myself up out of dreams fairly often, they certainly don’t help me sleep. I happened to sleep through those, but I’d rather not have.
But then, I don’t know the function of dreams in “normal” people–I have PTSD, and nightmares are yet another symptom of it. So it might make more sense for people who have ordinary problems.
Or it might not. I don’t know.
Though I will say, usually my nightmares are only slightly altered versions of daily events (like real life, but more violent or creepy.)
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