4. 2. WHICH SCIENCE STUDIES DREAMS?
Exploration of the mechanisms of dreaming
The influences on dreaming
Disorders linked to dreaming
5. 3. WHY DO WE DREAM?
Sigmund Freud
Dreams were manifestations of our unfulfilled and repressed desires
Others Dreams are simply a side effect of our brain’s activity in REM sleep
Deirdre Barrett (Harvard psychologist)
Process the thoughts and problems that trouble us during our waking
hours
Way to process the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that isn’t possible
during our usual reality
The likely answer is that your dreams have evolved to fulfill multiple
functions
There’s still much about sleep and dreams we really don’t
know
6. 4. DREAMS IN THE PAST
They have been a topic of study dating as far back as 4000
B.C.
During the Roman Era some dreams were submitted
to the Roman Senate for analysis and dream
interpretation.
They were thought to be messages from the gods.
Dream interpreters even accompanied military
leaders into battles and campaigns
7. 5. THE MEANING OF OUR DREAMS
INSIGHT FROM
DREAMS
We open our minds to different levels of our unconscious.
The feeling that accompanies the dream reveals how
our soul feels about events, decisions or conditions.
The more we learn to recall and understand
dreams, the better we understand our deeper
motivations, fears, desires and unconscious knowing.
8. 5. THE MEANING OF OUR DREAMS
‘Nothing occurs in our lives
that is not first foresthadowed
in our dreams’
Edgar
Cayce
9. 5. THE MEANING OF OUR DREAMS
Correlation between levels of consciousness and universal truths
Conditions in the body that need attention
Dynamics in our relationships
Dangers that need to be avoided
Non-physical experiences in other dimensions of life that help us
expand our consciousness
Opportunities that need to be seized
10. 6. INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and contemporary of Edgar
Cayce's (The collective unconscious)
lion
• power
death
• change
baby
• A new idea
Universal symbols
18. 7. CURIOSITIES
Men tend to dream about men more than women, and
women dream about people of both genders
19. 7. CURIOSITIES
While dreaming
you cannot only
have sex with your
partner but you can
also experience a
strong orgasm like
you have in your
real life.
20. 8. GREAT INVENTIONS CAME FROM DREAMS
Inventor of the sewing machine Elias Howe said the
cannibals who chased him in his nightmares held spears that
looked like the needle he then designed.
