Self-analysis of dreams. If you have the same dream several times
Sleep Analysis
I dreamed that the person I liked was real life, hugging me, he lifted me, hugging me and spinning me around, then he picked me up in his arms and carried me somewhere, while he looked happy.
At the same time, I got the feeling that he had wanted to do this for a long time, but was afraid of my reaction, and now he is happy, he did not meet any objections from me...
Blood test in a dream
I had a dream. I'm with best friend and a friend - the three of us - just walking around the city at night. I remember here in fragments, but the general impression is that everything was emotionally positive, they were talking about something, laughing. In the morning I tell my friends - let's go to the clinic - I need to get tested, get checked, so to speak. The three of us arrive, approach the reception: a huge window - we are on one side, on the other - a la a consultation of doctors. I call the nurse and say that I want to donate blood for tests. She calls me for an appointment. As a result, I just find myself on the other side of the glass with the doctors. I see my friends. My friend has disappeared somewhere, but I see my friend and smile at her. During the process, I still looked at her - a little worried, but then I realized that there was no need to worry about her - she was waiting for me and, along the way, flirted nicely with the doctors.
A female doctor comes to me to take tests. I ask her to take blood tests, but not simple finger tests, but blood from a vein, citing the fact that I have never donated blood from a vein before and I still don’t know what my blood type is (this is true) . She looks at me in surprise and exclaims: It can’t be! In general, she takes my blood from a vein, but I don’t see the blood anywhere at all, not a drop. Then, after a little time, she immediately processes the blood, gets the results, and then begins to freak out and get angry. At this moment, another doctor enters the office - a man. She just angrily throws the phrase at him - “I won’t do this” and leaves. He looks at the tests. I don’t look the doctor in the face, but I know for sure that we know each other and have already met before. And I know for sure (this kind of side confidence) that I met him before, but in other dreams. I turn half sideways to him and simply understand that the diagnosis there is close to incurable.
There is a premonition that this is blood poisoning or one of the intractable diseases. We talk to him, I am calm, he begins to assure me that everything will be fine, that he will take on my case; that he has a completely hopeless patient with AIDS, but he’s treating him - why am I here, especially since we know each other. Then we find ourselves on the stairs - the entrance from the street to the clinic - the two of us, I am sitting with my back half to one side on the steps, he is standing right behind me.
I calmly ask - humbling myself and accepting my diagnosis - what should I do next? At least the first couple of steps - what next? And he replied: everything will be fine, because I was able to love you.
Tests Toilet Menstruation in a dream
My friend Yulia asks me to take a urine test for her husband. I go to the public toilet and start pushing, but my period starts and I see blood. I push and a lump pops out of me.
I decide that I will normally take the tests not for him, but for myself, and I understand that Yulia (we are in a quarrel in reality) used the need for tests as a reason to meet. I go to her with champagne.
Tests in a dream
On Sunday morning I had a dream...
Of the two parts... I only remember the second part and it’s incomplete, I’m taking a stool test with someone else. A middle-aged nurse in glasses with two large flasks in her hands with cloudy liquid inside she says everything is fine, better than the second one... I’m lying on my back on the floor and the second nurse puts a heaped basin next to me filled with stinking shit, I’m indignant... A young nurse comes out of the office door, all smeared with excrement, she’s worried because of this she is embarrassed, and the two older ones convince her that everything is fine, nothing to worry about...
Blood test in a dream
I dreamed that I went to take a blood test and fluorogram at will I didn’t come to this particular hospital hungry. There were trainees there and a woman who said that the nurse was not in place right now. I don’t remember that they even took this test from me, but later I came for the result and ran and while running I felt unwell.
I went to the right office, but there was no one there yet. There were many instruments on the table and one of them was for sugar analysis, which I turned on (I wanted to check), but as soon as the nurse entered ( elderly woman) turned it off immediately. I walked in with my shoes on and followed because there was a puddle there. My sister noticed this and asked if these were my footprints - the footprints were huge, and my leg was smaller - but it turned out that these were my footprints. Somehow, I continued to climb around the table and accidentally came across a piece of paper with my analysis. It was colored, I think blue or a similar color, and covered with blue and red ink.
The red ink did not promise anything good, since the analysis was not good, and at the top of the page there was a line with an approximate lifespan and there was the number 13. I became scared and I began to calculate how long I would live, but still I did not want to believe it and decided that I needed to go and donate blood to another institution, given that I didn’t donate according to the rules and I didn’t have a finger prick to confirm.
And this piece of paper was covered with handwriting, and there were also my notes - a translation of which English word, which was filled with red and something else, it felt like it was torn out of my notebook.
Three dreams about your stay on the Internet in a dream
The backstory of the first dream begins with the fact that the Notes on Cuffs website disappeared from the Internet. I managed to download the works from the Rambler cache, but recently they disappeared from the caches of search engines. And on the forum of Notes on Cuffs 2 (more precisely, in the “defects” section), questions arose about where they can be found? I also asked myself such questions and what I read on the forum prompted me to find this site. It turned out that there is a colossal archive on the Internet where web pages have been recorded since 1996. And this site has been preserved there. True, not all pages are recorded there, but are done according to some selective principle, but let’s say for the site Notes on Cuffs, the majority have signed up. But I’ve already lost pages on the sites Userline, Rulinet and Romantic Kyiv. Yua. Therefore, I immediately tried to find these pages and it turned out that these sites were even better preserved. Then I spent a long time looking through this archive, following the links inside. I discovered a lot of interesting things for myself.
And after that I had a dream in which I wandered inside this archive for several hours. I find some of my pages, but I can’t find others, I look at versions of the same pages but in different time etc. In general, the whole dream I had in front of my eyes a monitor with pages of this archive. There is also such an interesting thing that if the owner of a domain (site name) creates one of the “robot. Txt” pages on the site and on this page describes a condition that prevents the archive robot from recording pages, then such pages are not in the archive. And on some sites, some pages can be recorded, others cannot, it all depends on how the URL address of this robot is written. And so, inside the dream, I wandered through my old stichirovo pages, which were impossible to find by simply entering the current address, but only the old one, and not from the author’s page, since the robot was placed on the author’s pages, namely, it is necessary to indicate the specific old address of the verse. What’s interesting is that if you write the old address of the stichera verse in a commentary on the stichera, then after the comment is published, the address itself is corrected to the new one.
The background of the second verse is related to the fact that the userline and rulenet sites have not completely disappeared. And if you type the address of any of the works, it will throw you onto the title page of these sites. But from the title pages only lists of thousands of authors are visible, and when you try to access these nicknames, it again throws you on the title page. In the archive itself, most of the pages have been recorded and almost all works can be viewed. But in this archive itself, since not all works were recorded, they are also sometimes thrown onto the current title page. And so I was thrown out like this many times and I don’t even know why I paid attention to one author, Yuri Altaitsev. I think it’s already become familiar to me on various sites, even though I haven’t visited its pages. And so I clicked on his name and it turned out that, unlike all other authors, his works were preserved on the current fragment of the site and can be read. And then I typed it into the search engine and... 400,000 sites. I followed these links and everywhere there was some kind of incredible absurdity, or rather not absurdity in the usual sense, but something like a generator of postmodernism, only on topics not related to postmodernism itself. And some sites with free publication and pre-moderation, and author’s sites and social media etc.
And then all night I had a dream that I was wandering through these pages, with the same titles of works, but I did not open the works themselves. And in the dream itself I felt somehow sorry that I was trying, inventing, trying to prove something to the reader. I wrote a lot of absurd and even abstruse things, but I always tried to do it differently and not to duplicate the same works on different sites and to choose different concepts for each site. And here, just like that, a person composed something and replicated it across thousands of sites. And I realized that an outside reader would not be able to distinguish this work from mine, and most likely, he would not even notice mine in all this. And one can imagine that not only Yuri Altaitsev does this. In a dream, I went to the stichirovo page of Tatyana Borinevich about whom I once read a comment that at the beginning of her publications she wrote thousands of short laudatory comments and only then they began to read her and she became popular.
After this I pondered for several days about the nature of seterature. My opinion has changed about setature and creativity in general. I had previously seen setatura as one hypertextual work, but now I have finally established myself in this picture. And that there are no worst and best works. And for your equal presence in the network, it is enough to publish some naive poem on one of the sites and you don’t even need any comments or readers. And all these assessments, competitions, geniuses, it’s all ephemeral and nonsense. And if a person thinks that he has written something good, then it is so. He does not need to behave aggressively by replicating on a million sites.
The third dream is related to the fact that in the process of all these thoughts I was re-reading my old comments and comments to me. And the bulk of my publications occurred in 2001-2004. And in a dream I dreamed of a certain village, which in reality I had never been to. And the people inhabiting this village are writers with whom I communicated in the network. But in reality, I only know three of them. From the dream, I only remembered a fragment associated with Akhtaeva, who writes not at all absurd works, but with whom I communicated in stichera from the very beginning until now, albeit with long interruptions. In real life, I did not communicate with Akhtaeva. And then someone in a dream points a finger at her and says: “Well, Akhtaeva is a real graphomaniac, she hasn’t invented anything special in literature.” And I answer: “And you don’t need to invent anything anymore. If you yourself think that your works are worthy and interesting at least to yourself, then it is so, regardless of whether it looks like high poetry, naive rhymes, absurdity.” or crazy. I respect Akhtaeva."
Two dreams in a dream
I had a dream on the night of Wednesday to Thursday - June 3, 2010 in the morning (or even early morning). The dream consists of 2 episodes:
1) While walking with friends, I accidentally meet my current one young man(on this moment, our relationship is in the process of completion), then exchanged a few phrases with him and parted ways, while I kind of understand that we won’t meet again, but I don’t feel any particular grief or disappointment.
2) Then the next episode is in the company of classmates (whom I haven’t seen for more than a year), among my classmates there is a guy with whom we were very friendly at school, and I really liked him, but I knew for sure that I wasn’t his type. This same guy, without any words, begins to show me signs of attention, hugs me, starts kissing me, I don’t understand what’s happening, but I didn’t resist) This is where the dream ended, I woke up with a feeling of complete happiness, although what’s strange is that this guy and I live in different countries and we don’t maintain any relationship, we haven’t seen each other for 4-5 years, and I definitely haven’t remembered him for the last six months.
I really hope for your help in interpreting such a dream) I would be very grateful!
Two parallel dreams in a dream
My first dream:
My neighbor Mikhail and I are walking along the corridor of our dorm and approaching our room. My teacher is standing near the room; when we approached, she entered the room with us. The room was ours, but it was strangely clean and tidy, not a speck of dust or speck anywhere. And what else caught my eye - she was all in green - green bed, carpets, curtains. She lay down on my bed and told me to feel like this for the third time (as I understood - as a student), and the dream stopped there.
At the same time, I and my classmate Mikhail had a dream, the dream was unclear but the main meaning was this:
He comes into our room and asks me:
Did she come?
Yes, I answered. - I took the potatoes and left.
He doesn't remember any names or faces.
Please, if anyone can interpret our dreams and is there any connection with today’s passing of the tail exam. The wrong teacher came in who was supposed to be with us today!
Not everything is clear with the meaning of a dream in a dream
I dream that I receive a message from a friend in which he invites me to meet him. He writes that his grandmother is sick (in context: that she is living last days; at the same time, I clearly imagine her image: a friendly old lady in white clothes) and therefore he wants me to come to him (it’s not clear further: it seems to be his home, but in the end the meeting place is a cinema).
I'm going to a meeting. I'm happy. I get dressed (everything that I would never wear in real life): military-type boots (clean and neat, I liked them), loose-fitting jeans and a quilted jacket. I'm thinking about the jacket. Why am I dressing her, she doesn’t look like her at all.
I came to the cinema and started buying tickets. While I’m buying, I’m thinking why I’m buying them, what if my friend has already bought them. But the cashier hands me tickets and a nice coin on top of them. I don't remember if I took it all. I think I took it.
And then I was overcome with excitement. That outfit is inappropriate for such an establishment (shameful). There are doubts about whether I even came to the right cinema. I tried to find that message, but couldn't. And I never met my friend.
Here. At the beginning it is still a little clear, but the closer to the end, the more confused I become in the interpretation. Help me please.
Bad tests in a dream
Happy New Year! Unfortunately, I have to meet him with the heaviest burden of unresolved life problems... In the morning I dreamed that I received some tests in my hands, and a young guy (for some reason his name was Danya) brought them to me, after my persistent attempts to find out them and a number of calls that contributed to this.. In They said that I have oncology... I am extremely worried... Moreover, today I am having prophetic dreams... Is this a death sentence?
Most effective method– three-phase dream analysis.
This technique includes three phases.
1. Search for associations.
2. Interpretation.
3. Ritual (using sleep to solve life problems).
Phase one. Search for associations
Write down all the images of your dream in a column. These include any items and objects, characters, natural phenomena.
Ask a question for each image: “How does this image make me feel? What associations? Your association is any word, thought, picture, feeling or memory.
Write two to six associations next to each word.
You should not create chains of associations; each association should depart directly from the dream image. For example, you have one association, then in connection with it the next one is born, which, in turn, gives rise to a third one, and so on. This takes us further and further away from the original theme of the dream. Associations should not be in the form of a chain, but in the form of rays extending from one center.
Next, from the entire variety of associations, one should select those that will lead to correct interpretation. There is a selection method that famous explorer Carl Gustav Jung called consciousness the “click method.” As you contemplate your associations, the most important one may generate a stronger energetic interaction with the structures of the psyche. At this moment, in the depths of my soul a feeling is born: “It coincided!” This is how intuition connects. The correct association will “click.” It is difficult to describe in words, but is easily mastered with practice. For some people, contact with the correct association is reminiscent of touching low voltage wires.
Using the "click method" select only one for each image association.
When associations are found, find the relationship between them. Create a mental or written short story, where the following questions should be answered:
“What part of me do these dream images represent?”
“Where in my life do they or my relationship with them show up?”
“How do the characters’ conflicts reflect my internal conflicts?”
“In what situation in my life do the selected associations appear simultaneously?”
Remember that dream images do not speak in direct text, but most often symbolically. That is, if you dreamed of grass, then you should not consider grass in reality to be the cause of your difficulties. Grass in a dream is a symbol of life. Having remembered what your relationship with grass is in a dream and what the relationship with grass is for other dream characters, think about what your relationship is with life.
The main thing is that dreams mainly tell not about external events, but about internal conflicts personality, even if images of external life are used. So, your friend’s actions in a dream do not at all reflect his real actions. Most likely, the dream shows you some of his qualities that you have and that you should pay attention to.
Always pay attention to the color of your hair, eyes, and clothes.
Scenes from the past, relationships with friends and relatives are also important.
If possible, look for relationships between the following dream elements:
characters;
situation;
natural environment;
activity;
natural phenomena;
sensations of the sense organs;
When recording a dream for analysis, it is advisable to note the smallest details that at first glance are not related to the main plot of the dream. They usually contain clues. Very often, the main plot contains a problem, and small details contain clues to its solution. And you should always pay attention to the emotions and feelings accompanying the dream. This is the main thing.
Consider the situation at home, at work, in personal life, what happened before, What after what worries you, what events you are under the impression of.
There are also prophetic dreams. “You should not consider the possibility of the literal realization of dreamed circumstances in reality as the only meaning of the dream. However, it is no less superficial (and sometimes dangerous) to neglect the possibility that a dream can only mean a literal warning about the development of events in external reality” (R. Moss). Prophetic dreams- a common occurrence. The only problem is that it is impossible to evaluate a dream as prophetic until the moment it materializes in reality. Therefore, searching for associations is still important.
Second phase. Interpretation
During the interpretation process, you put all the analyzed parts of the dream into a single picture. The third phase answers questions of this type: “What is the main, most important message that the dream is trying to convey to me? What does he advise me to do? What's it like general meaning sleep in my life? Sometimes you have to choose from several possible interpretations. Scroll through each of them mentally. Take the side of one, think through its consequences, then side with the other. Additional qualities and new understanding will be revealed. A correctly done analysis brings a feeling of inner relief.
Four principles of interpretation
1. Choose an interpretation that shows something you did not know or understand before. After all, the meaning of a dream is to give you information that you were not aware of.
2. Avoid self-soothing interpretations. Dreams that confirm what you think about yourself do not affect your psychological development. We must not allow it to happen, as in the expression: “Our eyes cease to see not where it is impossible to discern, but where our honesty ceases.”
3. Your dreams do not show what others should do, they show how you should change yourself and your behavior.
4. Take your time to interpret all dreams. If something doesn’t work out, put off the interpretation for a while. It also happens that some dreams are not deciphered at all. Moreover, no analysis can be considered final, since any dream elements we understand are only an illuminated part of the overall landscape hidden in the darkness.
Creating a Dream Motto
At the end of the interpretation phase, come up with a dream motto. The purpose of this action is to determine the essence of the message in one phrase. This short meaning messages. The motto phrase should not contain more than five words.
Third phase. Rituals
Once we have analyzed the dream intellectually, it is time for action. Now we need to use the message of the dream in the material world, that is why it was sent to us. Ritual unites spirit and matter.
Based on the conclusions drawn, it is necessary to take an action, even the most minimal one.
And here it is not at all necessary to perform a rational action; it can also be a symbolic action, that is, a ritual. A person could receive a message in a dream in the form of a candle, insects or natural phenomena. In this case, you can light a candle, for example, go out into the forest, give a gift to a butterfly, or entrust the solution to your problem to the wind or thunderstorm. If you dream about a dog, you can feed the dog in reality. The correct ritual will be suggested to you by the dream itself and your analysis.
Federal Agency for Education
State educational institution
Higher professional education
Ural State Economic University
Department of Pedagogy and Psychology
Test
On the topic: Dreams and methods of their analysis
Ekaterinburg 2009
2. The importance of dream analysis
5. C. G. Jung's theory of dreams
6. Practical task
1. General technique dream analysis
Dreams occupy a third of our lives, but people most often do not pay attention to them unless they are nightmares. Some even claim that they don't dream, although research shows that they don't actually remember them. This happens mainly due to a lack of understanding of the language of dreams, the inability to navigate images and, most often, due to a refusal to accept the truth about oneself. The ego's natural defense against the incomprehensible is to forget it, or to treat it carelessly and condescendingly. So it avoids unpleasant news for itself by pursuing an “ostrich policy”, because it is very jealous of its integrity and exclusivity.
But it was not like this at all times, before and even now in many Western cultures dreams played a significant role both in the life of the community and the individual. This is mainly due to a weaker, not yet ossified consciousness, like that of modern “Western man.” This is a long topic - the dream tradition, and even in Europe during antiquity and medieval alchemists, dreams were taken seriously. Often serious attitude dreams are attributed to “primitive” cultures or superstitions, thereby justifying one’s own ignorance or inability.
It’s rare when a person can honestly admit to himself: “I don’t know what to do with this.” Because it follows from this that a third of his life passes in secret from him. And for some, this can be a serious collapse of the naive belief that his life passes only in consciousness and is controlled only by it. The compilers also invested a lot in maintaining this negative image. various kinds dream books and charlatans. Only in our century has there been a breakthrough in Western thought in this area thanks to Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis. And although no one uses Freudian psychoanalysis anymore, it was still a serious breakthrough in the wall of hostility towards dreams and one’s unconscious. It was Freud who linked these two concepts together, clearly showing that dreams are closely related to the conscious life of the individual and carry a certain message.
Nowadays, few people doubt the existence of the unconscious, although rarely does anyone think about what it means for him as an individual. While accepting this fact, they still put it aside, turning a blind eye to the inevitable consequences and conclusions.
What is the connection between sleep and the unconscious? Sleep in our understanding is a DIFFERENT mode of perception, different from the usual daytime. This mode is distinguished primarily by the weakening of the ego complex, its attitudes and limitations, which directly allows the unconscious to manifest itself to a greater extent than in daytime consciousness. In conscious life, the unconscious usually manifests itself in the form of slips of the tongue, oddities, actions that we do not understand how we could do this, sudden thoughts, insights and intuition, although every thought that arises in the head has its source in the unconscious.
In dreams, with a weakened, “resting” ego-consciousness, the unconscious bursts in in the form of images that are little interpreted by consciousness, and therefore remain incomprehensible to us if we use ordinary daytime logic. Another question is: do these images have any meaning? We claim that YES, this is confirmed by practice. However, everyone should give the answer to this question for themselves; it will be the most convincing. Our task is to present the theory and help in practical analysis dreams. We can help understand the language of the unconscious, but we will not do a miracle - only the dreamer himself is capable of this.
2. The importance of dream analysis
For stable functioning of the mind and psychological health it is necessary that the subconscious and consciousness are inextricably linked and act in a coordinated manner. If the connection breaks or "dissociates", there is psychological disorder. In this regard, dream symbolism plays the role of a courier, conveying messages from the instinctive to the rational parts of the mind. Deciphering these symbols enriches the impoverished capabilities of consciousness; it learns to understand again forgotten language instincts.
Whatever the dream is - bad, good, strange, it is your dream. You may or may not love him, but it is part of your life. By avoiding thinking about dreams or interpreting them, neglecting them, we close our eyes to reality, to a third of our lives, which is no less important than the conscious - the daytime, which itself is significantly influenced by the unconscious.
Dream analysis can be compared to learning a vital lesson necessary for further life path. It’s as if we are loaded in our dreams with some kind of message, idea and, by analyzing, we process raw materials, feeding consciousness and our individuality, assimilating new, important contents for us, and also strengthening this magical connection between consciousness and the unconscious, that connection that is missing for the integrity of the individual. The sign of a successful analysis is the state. A state of lightness, completeness, integrity. It is impossible to describe, but anyone who has encountered it will understand what it is about.
3. Practical method dream analysis
It’s worth starting the analysis with DETAILED DESCRIPTION sleep without neglecting anything. The setting (from right to left), colors (or lack thereof), characters, their clothing, inconsistencies and emotional reactions in a dream - EVERYTHING matters. Details are the key to understanding the language of dreams; analyzing only the plot, we shoot sparrows from a cannon. Very slim chance of getting hit. On the other hand, attachment to details or analysis of an image taken out of context does not allow us to see big picture and understand the meaning of the message. The approach to each dream should be detached, as if it were not your dream, but someone else’s. You need to learn everything about the symbols found in dreams, but starting the analysis, you forget everything. Let every dream be a new leaf, tabula rasa. First of all, we look at the dream and write down the general idea, if there is one. The process of writing out is also important and should not be neglected when doing the analysis orally. Let's look in more detail and write down the topics that arose.
Next: absurdities, inconsistencies in every topic. Try to see them, compare them with everyday life, ask yourself: does this happen in everyday life? Write out these absurd pleonasms. Say out loud what exactly it is, where the mockery, the meaning, the hint are. Often they are “trickster tricks”, a kind of humor of the unconscious, indicating some kind of defect or interfering attitude of consciousness (interfering with the development of personality).
The following: the number of characters, their gender, their “national” affiliation, clothing, appearance. Separate the familiar from the unfamiliar, see what function they have in relation to the plot. Formulate sentences as if you were telling an event. small child. Write down all the predicates in a row, separately from the dream. Predicates are your actions. Sometimes they reflect yours day life and condition. When you write them all out of the dream, see if they have an analogue in your daily life - if they were repeated in the dream. It may not take you a day or two to understand its meaning. This does not mean that you should sit all day long over a notebook and “think.” No. Set aside a designated time to work with dreams. Let it be half an hour a day certain time. And do it, no matter how stupid and pointless this activity may seem to you. The main thing is to comply with the conditions of the “state”. Once it has been developed, insights about dreams will begin to come at very different times - and at next dream, both during lunch and while talking with a neighbor.
It is necessary from time to time to re-read your old dreams - to see their consistent logic, to see repetitions when the unconscious tries to tell you something in different ways - in different images, different actions, different symbols and adjectives. Reviewing past dreams also helps to understand some aspects that were missed in the analysis, as well as to build an approximate series of developing events, and perhaps their predestination.
4. S. Freud's theory of dreams
In The Interpretation of Dreams (1890), Freud described how dreams help the psyche protect itself and achieve a sense of satisfaction. "Dreaming is a way of releasing a person's unfulfilled desires through his consciousness without awakening the physical body."
Daytime experiences are transformed into dreams through the activity of dreaming, and thus the dream is an innocent payment for the possibility of sleep. A dream does not happen by itself. The appearance of a dream is associated with certain problems facing a person, although this is not explicitly revealed in the context of the dream. Almost every dream can be understood as a wish come true. Dreaming is an alternative way to satisfy the demands of the unconscious.
Based detailed analysis dozens of dreams, correlating them with the events of a person’s life, Freud was able to show that dream activity is a process:
· thickening
· displacements (the main means of dream distortion)
· distortion
· transformation
· rearrangements
· displacement and other modifications of the original desire.
These changes make the modified desire acceptable to the ego if the original desire was generally unacceptable to the waking consciousness. Dreams are not random or random, but are a way of satisfying unfulfilled desires.
The first method of dream analysis, according to Freud, considers the dream content as a whole and tries to replace it with other concepts and in some respects similar content. For example, K. Jung used exactly this method of dream interpretation. He considered dreams to be a manifestation of the unconscious and described them in symbols. The purpose of his work with dreams, in addition to psychotherapy, includes identifying the archetypal in that area of the psyche that is completely related to the unconscious. At first glance, dreams have no relation to culture. However, how historical development the soul determines the key images and concepts that become the basic archetypes of culture and consciousness of people, and there is a reverse influence. The archetypes of cultural consciousness are deeply consonant with the soul of any person and are reflected in his personal unconscious sphere, encouraging it to develop. The historical unconscious has shaped the mind; the mind shapes the human soul. This is the general process of cultural evolution. This method is symbolic and is not suitable for those dreams that seem not only incomprehensible, but also confused and chaotic.
The second method of dream analysis can be called “decoding”. We use this method when we look into our dream book in the morning.
The third method of dream analysis can be called associative. This method was also used by Sigmund Freud himself.
Freud divided dreams into three groups. The first group includes completely meaningful dreams, understandable, i.e. allowing us to explain them without further difficulty from the point of view of our normal life. The second group includes dreams that are clear in meaning, but strange because we cannot connect them with our mental life. To the third group, Freud included dreams that are devoid of meaning, incomprehensible, i.e. seem incoherent, confused and meaningless to us.
Analysis proves that every dream, without exception, is associated with some impression of the last days, or rather, the last day before the dream.
Practical task
Describe two instances of unresolved personal problems appearing in your dreams (or, conversely, examples of how dreams helped solve personal problems).
“The morning is wiser than the evening” - is there any meaning in this? Even Scarlett difficult situations she said: “I’ll think about it tomorrow,” and fell asleep. Is it possible to solve personal problems in a dream?
Psychologist Deirdre Barrett, Ph.D., has studied dreams for more than a decade. "Many waking thoughts are commonplace and common, and few
them are deep and significant. I think dreams need to be looked at the same way. They can reveal hidden truths, others are just background," she says. Barrett also suggests that dreams can be a useful tool for solving problems. In one study, she asked students to think about a pressing homework or personal problem that was causing them It was difficult to fall asleep. Computers stood next to the beds, and the participants tried to reproduce their dreams by waking up in the morning and thinking about something extraneous. After a week, half of the students reported that they dreamed about a pressing problem, the other part of the students found a solution to this problem in a dream.
Have there been any instances of problem solving in my dreams? Were not. But in my dreams there are often cases of unresolved problems. Quite recently, I remembered a dream in which I was with my parents in an airport lounge waiting for a plane to fly to New York in the United States. The fact is that I have been dreaming and striving to travel for a long time, and flying to New York is my long-time goal, which I hope to realize soon.
Having become interested in the topic of dreams, I conducted surveys among my friends, acquaintances and colleagues at work. One of my colleagues told me a dream in which she and her friend watched God descending to them from heaven. He approaches his friend and says that she believes in him and that is why everything in her life will turn out well... Then God approaches my colleague and says that she is not inclined to believe in him and she needs to change something. In real life, my colleague really doesn’t believe in God and considers himself almost an atheist.
Each dream is purely individual. It reflects the entire spectrum of what is happening to a given person. All the events that happen to him, all the thoughts and emotions that he experiences. All this is reflected in a dream and has a purely individual characteristic.
A few facts about dreams:
At the Mannheim University Clinic, 15 sleeping young women were surrounded by different scents. It turned out: unpleasant odors cause nightmares, and pleasant ones cause joyful dreams.
After examining about a million people at the University of California, they found that those who sleep 8 or more hours at night live shorter than those who sleep little. Lack of sleep is also negative. The ideal regime was 6-7 hours of sleep.
In 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours and 12 minutes, after recording this achievement he felt like a champion, fell asleep and slept for 15 hours straight.
66% of Russians sleep 6-8 hours a day, 20% - no more than 4-6 hours, and only 14% - more than 8 hours. 36% of our fellow citizens regularly dream about work. Interestingly, women dream of colleagues and bosses more often than men (42% versus 31%).
According to WHO ( World Organization Health), over the past 100 years, sleep time has decreased by 20%. Lawyers, teachers and representatives of creative professions especially often suffer from insomnia.
During nightmares in their sleep, 37% of people fall into an abyss, 26% run away from someone, 25.1% cannot move when in danger, 23% are late, 20% suffer due to the death of loved ones. 10% see an earthquake, and 7.2% see their teeth or hair falling out.
The poem “Dream” is one of those prophetic works that come to many poets and are associated with their death. Brief Analysis“The Dream,” according to plan, reveals to readers the world of poetic visions and shows how this special poetic genre found a place in Lermontov’s creative heritage. In a literature lesson in 7th grade, it can be used to explain the material.
Brief Analysis
History of creation- this poem was written shortly before Lermontov’s death, in 1841.
Theme of the poem– death as the end of life, mystical and fatal.
Composition- the work consists of two parts. In the first, the lyrical hero sees his death, in the second, a beautiful girl observes the same picture in her vision.
Genre- mystical lyrics.
Poetic size- iambic pentameter.
Epithets – “midday heat”, “yellow peaks”, “ dead dream”, “evening feast”, “young wives”, “young soul”, “familiar corpse”.
Metaphors – “the wound was smoking”, “the blood was dripping drop by drop”, “the ledges of rocks were crowded around”, “the soul was immersed in a sad sleep”, “the wound was turning black”.
History of creation
When Lermontov left for his second exile in the Caucasus, which became fatal for him, his friend Vladimir Odoevsky handed him a notebook and asked him to bring it back filled with poetry. Mikhail Yuryevich wrote a lot to fulfill the order of a friend who sincerely wanted to cheer him up. As a result, this notebook contained almost all the poems relating to the last period of the poet’s work, including “Dream,” written in 1841.
Like many writers, Lermontov had mystical premonitions about his life. It is to them that the work is dedicated. It was published two years after the fatal duel for him - in 1843 in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski.
Subject
The poem is devoted to the theme of death, and the author almost accurately describes his own death. Perhaps he was looking for her - everyone knows that, being very unhappy in the Caucasian exile and worried about the prospect of leaving the service, Mikhail Yuryevich was looking for quarrels with many of his colleagues. But, most likely, this poem is a manifestation of Lermontov’s fatalism: the poet believed that his death was inevitable and simply predicted it in detail. That's what it is the main idea“Sleep.”
Composition
Compositionally, this five-stanza work is divided into two unequal parts: the first has two stanzas, the second has three.
The first part paints a sad picture of the death of a young man who was shot in the chest. Obviously, this happened recently: the blood flowing from the wound is still warm, it has not had time to either dry out or be absorbed into the ground. It is obvious that during his lifetime he did not like being in the Dagestan mountains; he describes them as hot and unpleasant place, so we can assume that he ended up there against his will. It is also impossible not to note the motive of loneliness: there is not even a killer near his body. The young man fell asleep in eternal sleep and sees a beautiful picture.
The second part of the composition begins with this picture. In his native land they still don’t know about his death: there is a feast and young girls They are having fun talking about the lyrical hero. And only one does not share the general playful mood. She thought and seemed to fall into a dream, but in reality it was a premonition - she sees a picture of what really happened. The composition loops in a peculiar way: the body of a young man appears before the young girl, that is, the reader seems to “see” him again, but with different eyes. Also, such a composition does not allow the reader to hope that everything will end well - the author shows that the inevitable has happened.
Some also call the composition of this particular work mirror-like, because the reality of the hero and heroine seems to reflect each other.
Genre
This is a mystical poem that describes a non-existent picture, but as if everything really happened, as if Lermontov was witnessing his own death, which will happen very soon.
At the same time, the dream about which the poet speaks also takes on a completely mystical meaning: in the first part this is the transition of the lyrical hero to another reality, in the second - premonition, foresight, that is, a kind of trance.
Mikhail Yuryevich wrote “Dream” in iambic pentameter, also using cross rhyme.
Means of expression
The paths Lermontov used are necessary to ensure that the picture he creates is bright and expressive. This:
- Epithets- “midday heat”, “yellow peaks”, “dead sleep”, “evening feast”, “young wives”, “young soul”, “familiar corpse”.
- Metaphors- “the wound was smoking”, “blood was flowing drop by drop”, “the ledges of rocks were crowded around”, “the soul was immersed in a sad sleep”, “the wound was turning black”.
With their help, a bleak picture of the death of a young man far from his homeland is created.
