Talk:Dream interpretation/Archive 1

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1.) To be able to understand a dream, it must fristly be understood that every dream has four basic functions:

1.1) To fullfill a WISH of the sleeper. This is true even for nightmares (c.f. examples under 2). These wishes go back to those from childhood (narcissistic desires etc.) 1.2) To REGULATE the sleepers MOOD. 1.3) To help dealing with everyday life. This function is called MATERY. 1.4) To stop neurotic constituents. Dreams thus have a THERAPEUTIC FUNCTION.

2.) 'TYPICAL DREAMS' WITH THE SAME MEANING:

2.1) Dream of being nacked and ashamed: This dream is caused by unconscious exhibitionistic wishes. One the one hand, the dreamer is embarrased and wants to leave (i.e. the I* wants to leave) but somehow he cannot ( because the IT makes it impossible). Characteristically, in these dreams the people around are not appalled. This derives from childhood experiences, in which being naked in front of others was socially accepted.

2.2) Dream of the death of a beloved person: The dreamer wishes indeed the death of this person. However this wish does not come from his/her present day life. It comes, again, from childhood, in which 'to die' merely meant 'to go away'. In other words, the dreamer wishes that what he/she interpreted as a CHILD when he heard 'to die' should happen to this person.

2.3) Dream of having to take a feared exam: This dream typically occurs before exams in real life. It fullfills the wish of the sleeper to be comforted by showing him that he has gone through these kind of situations before.

  • ) terms from the STRUCTURE-THEORIE. Oversimplyfied, I is our consciousness, which is aware of the rules of society. IT are unconscious impulses and desires.

Being attacked

I had this dream that I was at a party with my friends we were having a good time. I was spending some time with a close friend in a room when men covered in blood whelding knives came into the room. That was when I woke up

Falling

In school the teacher talked about one "falling" from the effect of drugs or sometimes from other experiences. I feel this is strange as sometimes i cannot interpret my dreams. For example, once (or probably many times) i have awoke from a dream as i fall from a great height and hit the ground (i believe). I awake when i come in impact with the ground...unexplainable

Someone Needs to Finish This

This was last updated in January and it still has placefillers.

I don't know enough about dream interpretations to finish it, I was actually looking for this information, so if any kind soul will be a fine gentle(wo)man and do your civic duty, the world will be a better place.

The way forward, and Oneiromancy

Questions:

  1. This article has various "to be written" parts. Isn't this against Wikipedia policy?
  2. This article covers—or tries to cover—both psychological dream interpretation and mantic or spiritual methods. I look at Oneiromancy and wonder if maybe we should consider the articles together.
  • We could combine the article, presumable into "Dream interpretation," which would cover both topics.
  • We could separate the topics; everything "magical," "mantic" or "spiritual" would go to Oneiromancy (with a suitable in-article reference). "Dream interpretation" would only cover psychological theories.

What do people think? Lectiodifficilior 03:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)