Dream

  • Body paralyzed during the sleep. But our consciousness is aware of the paralysis, which give a sluggish feeling to the dream. Such feeling can slip into the content of dream itself.
  • Psychoanalytic point of view
    • Less restrictions are applied in the dream
    • Symbolics in the dream - sexual or aggressive
    • Latent content behind the Manefest content
    • Journalling of dreams
    • “Royal road to the unconscious”
    • Contents of dream are really important
  • Activation-Synthesis
    • Various parts in the brain becomes active.
    • The Active parts are synthesized into a dream — by our consciousness, as it always tries to make sense of things.
  • Lucid dream