Every night I dream of billions of human beings, without exception. That this happens to a person in Australia, America, India and Italy is no different: we are all united by this amazing collective experience. It is always dreaming every night, even more than once. But what is a dream? The question, though simple, has a huge complexity of response. The psychoneurophysiology identifies a mental process in the dream of our own brain, that the stage of sleep called REM (rapid eyes movement) takes on characteristics of extraordinary vitality and clarity, while retaining the constants of irrationality and unreality that so we are familiar.
dreams, however, are much more than simple "images of discharge" produced by our brain to rest. The, unpleasant feeling that we feel after such a nightmare or pleasure felt at certain moments in which we are immersed in a dreamlike scene of a sexual nature can not but let us suppose that behind the dream there is a strong emotional charge. And what about that strange feeling that assails us, sometimes, when you wake up and they do not exactly know how to give a name?
The study of dreams is something ancient, ancient. Sigmund Freud was only tested with scientific rigor something on which the Babylonian astrologers have asked themselves, and that the Romans were using Christmas to predict the future. Of course, the conclusions and the theoretical postulates of Freud had nothing of the prophecy of the ancient priests, but in any case put on paper the fact that the dream was one of the doors that gave access to the most hidden depths of the human soul.
What sense to give, then, the intricate tangle of images in our dream production? The answer is very personal and varies in each of us, however, is universally accepted in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic world in general that the images in dreams are the result of a deformation, psychic defenses made by the service of our moral claims, and especially so the defense mechanism called displacement and condensation. While we of Displacement already mentioned in a previous post, we can say that about the condensation is a mechanism whereby two or more images can be merged into one single object.
Thus, for example, if we dream of being chased by a wolf, we can express a symbolic level is a reworking of a thing of the past (where perhaps a dog or other animal attacked us) and talk about some issues that a threatening figure of the past with the authorities, such as our father had.
Carl Gustav Jung has further expanded the speech, saying that in every dream there is a dimension objective and a subjective dimension : every detail of a dream is about is an event that has to do with something "other than me" is with something that is "me." Returning to the wolf, we may refer to the episode of aggression is a dog is an aspect of our "wolf", or threatening, nocturnal predator.
speech on dreams, "royal road to the unconscious" as Freud said, is long and complex, and therefore deserves wider coverage. In the next post will post an example of dream analysis and it took some literary work, and I will comment on the most important points.
soon!
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