What is Dreams, Meaning, Causes, When and What You Dream ,Interpretations of Dreams

Dreams Meaning, Causes, When and What You Dream 

Girl Sleeping 

What Dreams Are: 

While you are sleeping you reached to another world, you live that world, you see images hear voices a complete world, what you see while sleeping refers to as Dreaming. Scientifically  defined as dreams are unconscious visualizations that comprise noises, pictures, and other feelings while you sleep.

• Everyone have dreams 3 to 6 times per night while sleeping, we may forget.  
• It is assumed that all dream persists among 5 to 20 minutes.
• 95% of people forget their dreams in the morning.

Sigmund Freud’s Concept of Dreams

According to Sigmund Freud who was the father of Psychoanalysis Dreams are Royal Road to the unconscious. Through dreams, we can assess the underlying information which may be problematic for the individual.

Some of the repressed material comes through a dream to awareness. Sometimes it happens that clients visiting the psychologist do not want to share private information because of confidentiality issues. So in this case psychologist should ask about the dreams which the client has during sleeping.

For example, I have a female client diagnosed with schizophrenia.  She was the victim of child abuse. But she does not want to share and has a paranoid personality. So I ask her to tell me about the dream which she recently has. She told that while sleeping I saw a man with a weird face attack me, and was trying to strangle me. I started screaming for release……………….hence the clue here is that A client is scared of the opposite gender “male”, they seem to her wired. The second question is that what type of attack,….

After that, a careful probing about dreams can lead the psychologist to the root cause of the problem.

Forms of Dreams

According to Freud, there are two types of Dreams in terms of content

Manifest Dream

Latent Dream

Manifest Dream:

What the dreamer remembers. Dreamer tell each and everything in the dream in form of a story;

Starting Portion____________ Climax _____________________End

Such dreams are based on often events and activities of the day.

Latent Dreams

Comprise of symbols. The hidden meaning of the dreams.  Like Freud interprets visualizing snakes in dreams as male sex organs and flying in the air means sexual desire are high.

Commonly, greenery in dreams is the symbol of prosperity, seeing black things is taken bad fortune, and so on.

Causes of Dreams

What causes dreams, what are the reasons of the dreams, the following may be the reasons of dreaming.

• Dreams represents suppress thoughts in the unconscious, these thoughts may be the fears, desires or wishes, or worries  of the individual
• Day to day activities also repeat while sleeping and it is the fact that about 65% of dreams are revolve around daily experiences.
•  1% to 2% dreams are about future predictions which are considered true.
• Dreams are the way to send daily experiences to long term memory by the process of consolidation and processing information.
• Dreams are a form of psychotherapy or talk therapy

 

Dreaming Time

When you dream, what is the time of dreaming?

Dreams occur most often during REM sleep(rapid-eye moment), which is the deepest stage of sleep. At this stage eye move rapidly in various directions, various physical changes occur during this stage like heartbeat increase, Blood pressure rises from normal, breathing becomes irregular and rapid. This stage lasts about 20 to 25 % of adult sleep and happens in intervals that can last anywhere from a few minutes to 30 minutes. A person passes through the REM stage 3 to 6 times so every individual has 3 to 6 dreams per night. And if the individual wakeup during this stage, then he has complete information of what he dreams.

Content of Dream

Dreams can be about anything. Most Dreams include the individuals who are close to you, like your family members, friends, and domestic animal as well as people you've never seen before. As 65% of dreams revolve around  daily experiences,

 Every individual has different dreams, those who are students see dreams related to study, exams, teachers, books, etc. those who are doctors will see dreams related to that like treating patient, emergencies, etc. those who are musicians will hear beats, music, and have colorful dreams, those who are foodies will see different delicious foods.  

Dreams may be horrifying and terrible also known as Nightmares.

Nightmares

girls have Nightmares 

Nightmares are upsetting dreams that cause the dreamer to feel several troubling emotions. The response of people to these distressing dreams is fear and anxiety. Children, adults everyone can have nightmares.

Reasons of Nightmares

The reason behind the troubling and distressing dreams may be;

• tension
• distress
• trauma
• emotional difficulties
• illness
• use of certain medications or drugs

stressors suppressed in unconscious come to conscious level through dreams, for e.g. those females who have sexual abuse have dream content related to that event happen in life.  

Interpretations of Dreams

What we are thinking just before we fall asleep affects the content of our dreams. For example, during exam time, students may dream about the course content. People in a relationship may dream of their partner.

Meanings of Different Themes of Dreams

Relationships:

one collection of typical dreams, comprising being an object in danger, falling, or being chased, is related to interpersonal conflicts. Relationships problem.

Sexual Themes:

Another collection that includes flying, sexual experiences, finding money, and eating delicious food is associated with libidinal (energy which propels the individual to fulfill the desires) and sexual motivations.

Fear of embarrassment and Social Scrutiny:

A third group, containing dreams that involve being nude, failure in an exam, arriving too 

late, losing teeth, and being inappropriately dressed, is associated with social concerns and 

a fear of embarrassment, and Social Scrutiny