Dreams
Dreams, except the very infrequent transcendental, according to the science of psychotherapy, exist to serve two purposes:
When someone’s asleep, the defenses of the ‘Ego’ are repressed and that’s why he/she can let go while sleeping.
But, messages from the unconscious, which shatter a person’s ‘Superego’ image of himself, mobilize intense emotional charges and wake him up.
In order for his sleep not to be disturbed, some of the ‘Ego’s’ defenses are still operational, even though most of them are in a repressed state, and continue to filter out messages from the unconscious, which are not compatible with the ‘Superego’ image a person has for himself.
For this reason, the unconscious symbolizes its messages in dreams, so that these messages can go through the ‘Ego’s’ defenses and reach the person’s conscious level, even though most of the aforementioned defenses are repressed during sleep.
The unconscious always sends the right message, which if properly interpreted and accepted by the conscious, then the person can withstand to comprehend and contain it.
According to psychotherapy, every element of a dream (a person, an emotional charge, even a material object) is some part of the person that is dreaming and must be interpreted as such, in order for the person’s level of consciousness to rise.
Furthermore, every part of a dream can be analyzed from many different angles and bring different kinds of consciousness to a person.
There are times that a dream’s content can be taken as having a delusional form.
The difference between delusion and dream is the following: a delusion is perceived, by the person having it, as reality, whereas a dream, upon waking up, is perceived as something non real (happening outside of the person’s world).
Each dream is a symbolized psychic state, since each dream is a photograph of some part of his psyche.
- They discharge the unconscious from repressed emotional charges, which have been classified as ‘forbidden’ by the ‘Superego’. Namely, when someone restricts himself from feeling forbidden (by the ‘Superego’) emotions and from doing unacceptable deeds, then the unconscious discharges itself through dreams, so that it won’t explode with unpredictable consequences for the person.
- They send messages from the unconscious to the conscious level, so that the person can realize his unconscious parts.
When someone’s asleep, the defenses of the ‘Ego’ are repressed and that’s why he/she can let go while sleeping.
But, messages from the unconscious, which shatter a person’s ‘Superego’ image of himself, mobilize intense emotional charges and wake him up.
In order for his sleep not to be disturbed, some of the ‘Ego’s’ defenses are still operational, even though most of them are in a repressed state, and continue to filter out messages from the unconscious, which are not compatible with the ‘Superego’ image a person has for himself.
For this reason, the unconscious symbolizes its messages in dreams, so that these messages can go through the ‘Ego’s’ defenses and reach the person’s conscious level, even though most of the aforementioned defenses are repressed during sleep.
The unconscious always sends the right message, which if properly interpreted and accepted by the conscious, then the person can withstand to comprehend and contain it.
According to psychotherapy, every element of a dream (a person, an emotional charge, even a material object) is some part of the person that is dreaming and must be interpreted as such, in order for the person’s level of consciousness to rise.
Furthermore, every part of a dream can be analyzed from many different angles and bring different kinds of consciousness to a person.
There are times that a dream’s content can be taken as having a delusional form.
The difference between delusion and dream is the following: a delusion is perceived, by the person having it, as reality, whereas a dream, upon waking up, is perceived as something non real (happening outside of the person’s world).
Each dream is a symbolized psychic state, since each dream is a photograph of some part of his psyche.
