Content of Dreams

Dreams according to Benjamin Lahey, are one of the fascinating aspects of human consciousness. At least since the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, people have attempted to decipher the meaning of dreams - and some psychologists are still trying.

Most of the conscious experience in dreams is visual. Some dreams are happy, sad and scary at the same time, but mother nature plays little tricks on us.

Why do we dream about the things that fill our lives during sleep? What is the meaning of dreams? A large part of the content of dreams is directly related to things going on in our lives during the day - things that Sigmund Freud called day residue.

We know that some of the content of dreams simply reflects the events and concerns of daily life, but what about the rest? And what is the meanig of the bizarre and fictional images in dreams?

Different psychologists have very different views of the meaning of dreams, ranging from the opion that they mean virtually nothing to the belief that they provide a rich source of information about hidden aspects of our personalities that cannot be revealed easily in other ways.

Freud divided the content of dreams into two levels - manifest and latent.

The event that we experience in dreams are their manifest content. Whereas a latent dream, according to Freud, is the true meaning of dreams that is found in the symbols in their manifest.
An example for this is from my own experiences and throughout the coming weeks I will try to keep track on dreams that I have that turned out to be true.