2. # Dreams are thoughts, emotions and the images
shaped by us, which are encountered when we
are asleep.
# Research shows that during an average
lifespan, a human being spends about six years in
dreaming which is around two hours every night.
# It was a dream, that revealed to a scientist the
molecular structure of carbon atoms in the
benzene ring.

3. # Some persons believe
that dreams have certain
fixed meanings. “If you
dream about oranges, it
means good health; if you
dream about onions, it
means hard work,” and
so on. You can even buy
“dictionaries” of dream
interpretation.
# Various theories on dreams interpretations
exist but the real purpose of dreams is still
unknown. Dreams are closely associated with the
human psychology.

4. # Sigmund Freud once called dreams the
“royal road to . . . the unconscious,”
# Freud believed every dream is a wish
fulfillment, He had said that bad dreams
allow the brain to gain control over the
feelings that are a result of
distressful experiences.
# this idea of a “secret”
wish being masked by a
dream remains central to
classical Freudian
psychoanalysis.

5. # Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist suggested that
dreams compensate for one-sided feelings borne in
consciousness.
# Some theories say that dreams involve one's
repressed emotions that are fantasized during the
sleep while other theories suggest dreams to be an
outcome of the cleaning-up operations of the brain.
# According to the theory
of emotional selection by
Richard Coutts, dreaming
is a way to modify one's
mental schema.

6. # Then there are modern
scientists who claim that
dreams are nothing
more than images
resulting from random
electrical activity in
the brain as it
“housecleans” itself
during the night.
# Yet, in spite of modern science, dreams still
remain mysterious.

7. # Dream psychology believes that the elements
of the dreams are closely related to the
environment and the experiences one is exposed
to.
# To use dream material clinically—that is, in
psychotherapy.
# All you can do is put the dream into words in
an imperfect attempt to describe what you
experienced. So, in the end, to talk about the
dream you really talk about the text of your
perception of the dream.

8. # The clinical work of dream interpretation, therefore
involves three things.
>> First, you need a written text of the dream.
>> Second, you have to understand your
psychological associations to the various dream
images. These associations must come from your
personal life, not from a “dictionary” of fixed
meanings.
>> Third, you have to discover the links between all
these association

9. #When we fall
asleep,
we effectively go
into
hibernation mode,
adrenaline in our
body decreases and,
somatotrophin
Controlling the
repair of tissue
increases. Thus
healing process of
sleep revitalises us.

10. # The synaptic nerve connections
containing recollections about the last
day are also strengthened, This localised
area of memory is what many of our
dreams consist of, our past recollections
of the day our conscious thought about it
accesses that part of the brain thus
'remembers' it at night.

11. REM
>> REM stands for rapid eye movement and is the
points in time during sleep where dreams occur. They
occur after periods of deep sleep.
>> The most vivid and deepest dreams will occur in
the periods between REM while drowsy, almost
conscious dreams occur in the REM stages.

12. # In a pagan world of myth and blood
sacrifice, the Nightmare was a cruel, fearful
creature.
# And in today’s world,
when we speak of a
nightmare we mean
a frightening dream
accompanied by a
sensation of oppression
and helplessness.

13. # In psychodynamic terms nightmares are graphic
depictions of raw, primitive emotions such as
aggression and rage that have not been
incorporated into the conscious psyche.
# Thus we tend to encounter
these “ugly” aspects of our
unconscious lives as terrifying
dream images in whose
presence we feel completely
helpless
# Nightmares are quite
common in childhood
because this is a time of
our emotional development.

14. # Traumatic nightmares can also occur as one of
the many symptoms of posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD).
# Therefore, traumatic nightmares need to be
treated differently than other dreams.
# systematic desensitization
is an effective way to
“sow the seeds” of new
ways of thinking and acts
as a multidimensional
treatment for PTSD.

15. >> Dreams Telling the Future!!
>> Blind people can dream as well!!
>> It’s easy to forget your dreams!!
>> Dreams prevent psychosis!!
>>Animals have dreams too!!

16. >> A large percentage of people see the same
dream over and over again - the same situation
and the same episodes!!!
>> Creative overflows during their dreams !!
>> Depending on the experience and perception of
colors we fill colors in our dreams!!
>> People who quit smoking have more vivid
dreams!!
>> Dreams are symbolic and do not usually call a
brick a brick!!