The Psychology of Dreams
Dreams are naturally confusing and mysterious. Ever since man has become conscious of dreaming, he has associated it with prophecy and revelation. There are different approaches to dreams. But for psychologists, this is the person’s way of dealing with the unconscious. As per Freud, to dream is to fulfil a wish.
In psychotherapy, your dreams are not used to analyse you. This is because it is impossible to describe the jumble of pictures that you see in your sleep. Narrating your dream is an attempt to depict imperfectly what you have seen. It is also telling how you are feeling during that certain moment. In the end, psychologists believe that if you are talking about your dream, you are really talking about how you perceive your dream.
To interpret your dream clinically, it involves 3 steps. First is putting the jumbled images into words. This should be done immediately after you awake from dreaming. The next step is to describe and comprehend your psychological associations with the images. During this step, your counsellor or therapist will ask you to talk about associative images that are connected with the dream. The third step is to discover the connections with the associations.
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