About dreams...

Dears! I had to talk about dreams the last week, but I forgot it, so I going to talk about it today.

Well, in our discipline, psychology, there is a famous author who proposed that dreams were demonstrations of our unconscious. That means that our experiences and feelings which are repressed in our unconscious can out of there through our dreams, but these dreams are not exactly like the experience or feeling that it represent but there are a latent content (experience or feeling) and a manifest content (dream).

This author was the father of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. So, this psychological theory is the most interested in dreams, but there are other theories, like cognitve-behavioural therapy, which use dreams in some cases (when the person has recurrent nightmares, for example).

From physiology, the dreams are the result of the mental activity when we are sleeping; this activity is characterized by a sensorimotor imagination which is experienced such as the waking reality.

Other persons think that the dreams are premonitions of the future or revelations of a deity. Mapuche people, for example, though that God gave messages through dreams, so the Machi was chosen when the person had a revelation in a dream.

But "dream" does not only mean an image in our minds when we are sleeping, but it means our ambitions and goals. I think that the people call "dreams" to some ambitions because there are things that they are hoping to reach, but they really don't know if it is possible, because there are ideal things or moments or states. So, the dream, the goal, gives us the motivation to do things and reach it.

I personally thing that the dreams are results of our minds, when we are sleeping, and this results have relation with our experiences and feelings, our hopes and worries, so they could be interpreted and used in therapy with patients who give to te dreams a lot of importance. But I don't agree with the persons that thing about the dreams as a premonition of future or thinks like that.

And I call "dreams" to some of my goals and ambitions in the future, because a think that I don't really know if I will reach all my goals, but I fight for that every day.