Saturday, March 24, 2012
Influence on Dreams
On the topic of dreams I believe that Freud tends to ignore some of the key influences of our dreams. This is not to say that his theory is completely false, but rather that it lacks some information. Freud argues that our dreams all spawn from our repressed infantile wishes. From experience though I would argue otherwise. There is another very obvious influence on our dreams, our experiences right before I sleep. From personal experience: I had been waken up by a phone call and then fallen back to sleep, my right tone then preceded to experience my ring tone incorporated into my dream. Now it is obvious that this could be our unconscious pulling from information from our recent memories to disguise our repressed wishes. I simply believe that dreams can be much more nonsensical than Freud seems to claim. Instead of holding all this secret repressed information, they could simply be the random trails of our last thoughts before sleep.
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