Foreign studies on dreams

Foreign studies on dreams

You're all familiar with psychotherapist and dream interpreter Sigmund Freud. It is said that Freud was able to make such a great contribution to an unusual dream of his. The dream was:

In a large hall, guests were gathered, and Irma was among them. Freud approached her, and the first thing he said was to ask her why she had not yet accepted his 'method.' Freud said: 'If you still feel pain, it is not my fault, it is your own fault!' She replied, 'Do you know that my throat, stomach, and stomach have been killing me lately?' Freud then noticed how pale and swollen she had become, and he began to worry that he might have neglected something before. So he took her to the window and examined her throat by the light. Like most ladies with dentures, she opened her mouth a little unwillingly, and Freud did not think she needed such an examination...

The result was a large white spot on her right larynx, and a wide range of small gray spots arranged in curly bands elsewhere, which looked much like the 'turbinate bone' inside her nose. Freud quickly called Dr. M to do another examination, which proved to be the same as what he had seen. ... Dr. M looked different today, pale, slightly lame, and clean-shaven... Now Freud's friend Otto was standing next to Eema, and another doctor, Opold, was tapping her chest (unbuttoned) and saying, 'There is dullness in the lower left chest.' It was also found that there was a 'penetrating' lesion on her left shoulder skin, which could still be felt through her clothes.' 'It's definitely caused by a bacterial infection,' Dr. M said. 'There's nothing wrong with that. Just pull your stomach and get the toxins out.' And they all knew very well how it had come about. Perhaps not long ago Otto had given Emma an injection because she was not feeling well... In fact, people rarely use the drug so lightly, and it is likely that the needle was not clean enough...

It is because of this dream caused Freud's association and thinking, since then, the dream has a profound impact on his study of psychological analysis. He started with dream analysis and carried out a large number of experiments and studies, leaving a huge book for future generations.

The famous Swiss psychologist Jung also had a very strange and strange dream:

One night Jung was lying in bed thinking, reflecting on his attendance at a friend's funeral the day before. Thinking about it, he fell asleep. In his dream, he saw his dead friend standing at the end of the bed, looking down at him. Then his dead friend came to the door and beckoned Jung to follow him.

Jung followed his dead friend through the streets until he reached his home and entered his study. My dead friend stepped onto a chair and pointed to a red-covered book in the second shelf, the second of a three-volume set. At this time Jung woke up and found himself still lying in bed.

With great curiosity, Jung went early the next morning to visit the widow of his dead friend and asked to see the study, which he had never been to.

When he went into his study, he saw exactly what he had 'seen' the night before, with the chair still standing beside the bookcase. Jung stepped onto his chair and found the book that his late friend had pointed out to him. It turned out to be a translation of a novel by the French writer Zola called The Legacy of Death.

It can be seen that western dreams are also very mysterious. From very ancient times, people there have questioned the cause and process of dreams. The interpretation of dreams at that time had connotations of magic and tutoring, which can be found in Babylonian culture, the Bible, and ancient Greek culture. In ancient Greece, the study of dreams even became a subject of philosophical study. Plato, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, once discussed dreams and the unconscious. Aristotle also wrote an essay, calling dreams 'an image that only appears in sleep', and made a unique discussion of dreams. In the mid-19th century, the French physician Emery studied more than 3,000 dream cases and concluded that dreams were caused by external stimuli.

It was not until 1900, at the beginning of the 20th century, that people began to talk about dreams in a truly scientific sense because of the publication of Freud's book, The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud and Jung, both his student and collaborator, came up with different theories, which gave birth to the analytical psychology of the unconscious.