Dreaming is a secret projection of wishes

Dreams are secret projections of wishes

Why is it that subconscious projection -- dreams -- can reflect things that people care about rather than things that are completely irrelevant? This is because dreams are secret projections of one's wishes. The discovery that dreams are produced by wishes can be traced back to the Duke of Zhou, who said, 'The dreamer is the sign of the heart.' In the Chinese people, there is also a proverb that goes, 'Think by day and dream by night.' The interpretation of dreams is much later in foreign countries than in China. In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud said that in 1868, the doctor Bixuz had divided dreams into three categories: a divine dream, a mental image naturally caused by one's own mind, and an image transformed by one's own desire. In 1913, Stellke also noted examples of wish fulfillment in Chenell's collection. 'The dreamer,' Chenell wrote in 1861, 'because the emotional weight of the wish is so evident in the mind, that the dreamer, by the use of his imagination, can at once achieve its realization.' Chenell classified this type of dream as 'the dream of the mood,' and there were two other types of dreams in his classification, 'erotic dreams' between men and women and 'bad-tempered dreams.' Here, no doubt, Chenel saw the importance of the 'wish' in dreams. Indeed, from the perspective of dream interpretation, dreams are secret projections of human wishes.

In the summer of 1896, Freud and his family went hiking in Holstadt. That summer they lived on a hill near Lake Oth. On a clear day, they could see Mount Daher, and if they had a telescope, they could see Simone's hut on the hill. And Freud's children, for some reason, liked to look at it every day. Before setting off on the hike, Floyd explained to the children that their destination, Holstadt, was at the foot of Mount Daher. And the kids are very excited about it. As they re-enter the Yesthousand Valley from Holstadt, the children are even more delighted with the changing scenery. But the 5-year-old son grew impatient, and whenever he saw a mountain, he asked, 'Is that Mount Daher?' And Freud's answer was always, 'No, that's still the hill below Dach.' After several such questions, the son was silent and did not want to climb the stone steps with his father to visit the waterfall. Unexpectedly, the next morning, the son came to Freud in a cheerful mood and told him, 'Last night I dreamed that we walked to the cabin of Simone.'

Freud realized that when he had spoken of going to Mount Daher, his son had been fully convinced that he would be able to walk from Holstadt over the mountains to the cottage of Simone, which he fancied every day through his telescope. And once he learned that he could only end at the waterfall at the foot of the mountain, he was too disappointed, too dissatisfied. But the dream compensated him. At that time, Freud tried to ask the details of this dream, but the son only said: 'You only need to climb the stone steps six hours to get there,' and the other content was blank.

Children's dreams are simpler because their spiritual activities are simpler than those of adults. Just as the study of the structural development of lower animals can understand the structure of higher animals, the study of child psychology can better understand the psychology of adults. Children's dreams are often very simple wish fulfillment, and therefore more boring than adult dreams, but they provide priceless proof that the essence of dreams is the fulfillment of wishes.

Some people will argue that dreams are not necessarily the same wish to achieve. People also have nightmares, which are 'anxiety dreams' that are so unbearable that they wake you up. We also often find that children wake up crying and screaming when they sleep, which means that children also have nightmares, so dreams are not necessarily the fulfillment of wishes. In fact, some observers believe that the painful and ominous content of dreams is far more common than the fulfillment of wishes. Two women, Uid and Haram, have used their own dreams to show, statistically, the more depressing content of dreams. They found that 58 percent of dreams were unpleasant and only 28.6 percent were pleasant. It would seem, therefore, that the instances of 'anxious dreams' are sufficient to disprove all those previously mentioned, and even to condemn as nonsense the claim of the fulfillment of wishes. However, it is not difficult to refute this seemingly valid counterargument. For the interpretation of dreams is not an interpretation of the surface content of the dream, but an interpretation of the thought content hidden in the dream. Who dares to say that those painful and horrible dreams, if carefully analyzed, cannot contain the meaning of the fulfillment of wishes? Why do those dreams, which at first glance seem to be irrelevant, need to go through layers of peeling cocoon to see that they are also the meaning of wish fulfillment? Because 'dreams need to be explained' is the characteristic of dreams, also known as 'dream modification phenomenon.'

When a man climbs mountains, wades rivers, breaks through thorns, and finally climbs to an open place with a vast horizon, and then finds that it is a smooth road down, he had better stop and think carefully about what to do next. In the same way, on the way to learning 'dream interpretation', this time should also do this effort. Now we are finding the first glimmer of light. Dreams, it is not empty, it is not meaningless, it is not absurd, it is not a part of the consciousness is asleep, and a small part of the consciousness to sleep and wake up. It is an entirely meaningful spiritual phenomenon. In fact, it's a projection of desire. It can be regarded as a continuation of waking mental activity. It is produced by highly intricate intellectual activities. Dreams can guide our inner mental activity and correct the ideas we have held during the day.

We have discovered that dreams are projections of wishes and that all dreams have meaning and spiritual value, but not all dreams have the same meaning. Our first dream may be the fulfillment of a wish, the second a worrying insight, the third a self-examination, and the fourth an awakening of a memory. Some of the 'wishes' that dreams represent are undisguised and extremely obvious, but some dreams represent wishes that are very hidden.

A man eats pickles for dinner, and in the night he wakes up thirsty. But before this 'waking up', there is often a dream of the same content - he is drinking water. He was drinking from a large bowl of water, which tasted like a cracked throat and was as delicious as cold, bone-deep ice water. Then he woke up and realized that he really wanted a drink.

The reason for the dream was the thirst that the man felt when he woke up. This feeling gave rise to the desire to drink water, and the dream told him that it had fulfilled this desire, so that the dream had its function. If a person usually sleeps extremely well, it is not easy to be disturbed by the needs of the body; If this dream of drinking water can be used to assuage thirst, one can wake up without thirst. This is such a 'convenient dream', the dream so instead of action, to satisfy the desire of people's hearts.

A young woman has been unable to participate in social activities for a long time because she has spent all year in an isolation ward caring for her infectious child. One night, she had a dream that her son was recovering, and she was with a large group of writers and poets, including Li Bai, Lu Xun, and Oscar Wilde, who were all very friendly to her and comforted her. In the dream, they looked exactly like the portraits she had in her collection. Li Bai, whose face she was not familiar with because of the ancient portraits circulating, looked like the first person from the outside world who had come into the ward to disinfect it in a long time. Not long after this dream occurred, her child became terminally ill and unfortunately died, and the lady's life was plunged into sadness.

Apparently, the dream reflects the woman's desire to resume a normal social life, so it manifests itself in meetings with writers and poets. At the same time, it is a dream of precognition. As a mother who is with her child day and night, she already knows in her subconscious that the child cannot be saved, so she will dream of writers comforting her, and she will dream of people disinfecting them - because she is about to leave this ward.

These examples seem sufficient to show that most dreams, however complex, can be interpreted as the fulfillment of wishes, and that even the contents are often visible without concealment. For the most part, they are short dreams, in sharp contrast to the complex dream images that require the interpreter's special attention. Though true dreams of foreknowledge are very rare, it is well worth exploring the briefest of these dreams, so that we may come to know the true desires of our hearts.