#freud's interpretation of dreams

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Sigmund Freud - Freud's Interpretation of Dreams - Coles - 1980

[cosmonautroger]

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation Of Dreams, 1899

[thaliasthunder]

ive bever seen a post actually praising tsats preview so:

usually dreams being portrayed in books are my least favorite part of them, they annoy me. and it's bc my brain automatically stops working and suddenly im incapable of interpreting absolutely anything that appears in them since the very first line where the protagonist is mentioned to be asleep and dreaming. for instance in SOM that dream percy had 'bout thalia? i was like "yes thalia appears in his dream and they're in a classroom, for some reason, but ????what the actual FUCK is this supposed to mean ¿¿¿" dreams for me in books are too ambiguous, too hard to comprend bc they're too purposely symbolic that i feel like im walking blindfolded whenever a dream comes up in a book; and since i dont understand shit neither care about it i almost instantly forget them bc they're not actual events in the story. but the tsats prev was nothing like it! i could clearly interpret and understand the reason why of every detail of nico's dream, whether if it was bc i've already hyper psychoanalized nico before and know the reason why he's heavily traumatized or for M.O writing it very detailed, well structured to actually making sense, i honestly couldnt care less bc for once i didnt feel lost in a dream at all! it was intense and i loved it til the point of picking the dream part of tsats as my favorite from the preview <3

[thefrankshow]

The Interpretation of Dreams

[thecoolerliauditore]

i love your blog. freudian psychology is true but only when used in application to minecraft youtubers

i am genuinely working this ask into my worldview from now on. you're so right anon.

[excelsior9173]

last night i dreamt that if i drove my car at specifically 105km/h my wheels would stop turning no matter how far i turned the steering wheel, and anytime i approached a curve my car would go straight and launch itself into the ditch…

i have no idea what this means lmao

[woozapooza]

I can never remember the capital of Zambia, but it came to me in a dream last night (Lusaka, btw) and I think maybe this time it's finally going to stick. The brain is such a fascinating thing!

[anomellee]

The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud SE V 5, p. 525)

[8archiveofdreams8]

Last night, I dreamed that this girl I went to high school with was in my house, and she was angry because people were spreading rumors about her. She began ordering me to stop the rumors and stand up for her. I got irritated when she asked for my help because she was always rude to me in real life, so I just shouted, “AM I A CONDOM? BECAUSE ALL YOU EVER DO IS USE ME” and I woke up feeling absolutely incensed that I, as a writer, can’t come up with something even remotely that funny when I’m awake

[power-chords]

[dandelioncasey]

@listen-to-the-inner-walrus peer review be upon ye:

one of the most annoying things people can do online is play Sigmund Freud about your fetishes and not even correctly guess your trauma

[thedreamarboretum]

In the Dream Wilderness

I haven’t been a good sport about writing down by dreams everyday, and since my last dream post I’ve had several other wild ones.

I have dreams often of people I haven’t seen or talked to in years, and sometimes it’s the most random of individuals. More so men than women.

I know I’ve talked about visitations in my last post, but when individuals are still in this surface plane and they pop up in my dream randomly, I sit and ponder their meaning. Is it just my brain cycling through old memories, pulling attributes of that person into scenarios, or is it something more?

I also had a portion of my dream last night involve a really hot guy I didn’t know who was doing my eyeliner. The way he accentuated the cat eye on me was super sizzle material. He also told me I could get fake lashes as he applied mascara. Okay, who is this and where are you?!

When we dream of a man or a woman we don’t know it can represent our “masculine” energy and our “feminine” energy (because we have a mix of both of these energies within us regardless of the gender we most identify as).

However, it can have more profound meaning and depth to uncover.

1) He represents part of you

2) He represents something you think you are missing

3) He represents your “dream man” and what you are looking for in a partner…

I really liked the breakdown of Hack Spirit’s dream analysis of this scenario and you must give it a read to see the additional 6 possible meanings and understand each more.

In other aspects of my dreams last night involved another guy I went to high school with. It was as though we were in an aquarium type museum holding hands. I don’t remember the other parts of it now for it’s a bit blurry, but it made me reach out to them. Usually when I have dreams of other people I reach out to them, to just check if they’re okay. I’ll keep you all posted if anything deeper comes out of it.

Sigmund Freud believed that there are obvious clues (manifest content) and hidden messages (latent content) in our dreams.

If you are frequently dreaming about people from your past, look at the obvious signs in your dream first. Examine the literal parts, the visuals, symbols and story-line of the dream. Then look below the surface. Take these symbols and decipher them.

Museum

A museum in a dream represents your past experiences and memories. It may also indicate a desire to learn and explore new things.

Aquarium

Dreaming about a large aquarium or fish could have a number of meanings, including:

Beliefs:

Fish in dreams can represent your beliefs about value, self-worth, and abundance. They can also communicate your feelings about success, deservingness, and what you attract into your life.

Emotions:

Dreams about water can symbolize your emotions and are linked to your subconscious mind and intuition. Water can also be associated with creativity, fertility, emotional well-being, renewal, and purity.

Prosperity:

Dreaming about fish can mean you'll receive power, prosperity, wealth, or personal growth.

Good things:

If fish are swimming toward the surface of the water in your dream, it could mean you're in for good things like wealth, love, or satisfaction.

Holding Hands

According to Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, the hand is the “tool of tools.” However, our hands are more than just that; they are a powerful symbol. Just simple hand gestures can end up representing power, protection, and strength.

Assistance:

Dreaming of holding hands with another person is commonly interpreted as a request for support and aid from that person.

Support And Reassurance:

When you hold hands with another person, you are sending them a message of your support and reassurance.

Guidance:

Dreaming that you are holding hands with someone you don’t know can be seen as a sign from a higher power attempting to point you in the direction of a more fulfilling course of action in real life.

Love And Connectedness:

Dreaming that you are holding hands with another person symbolizes your want to reveal hidden sides of your personality, break out of your shell, and express yourself freely without feeling the need to conceal some aspects of who you are.

[mythsteps]

positively positive

I wonder what Freud would say about this dream: I’m on a field, playing a game that’s similar to soccer.  A young woman drops two footballs to the ground.  I rush and snap them up.  They’re more like rubber toys than regulation footballs.  Holding the balls to my chest, I dart through a group of defenders.  Then I dive for the goal—a box three feet wide and three feet deep.  I land hard just…

[paperwhitegreyandblue]

What does it mean, Freud? What does it mean!???

Sonic the Hedgehog chased me through a pharmacy and crashed into the aisles filled with medicine as he did so.

[denimbex1986]

'Loosely based on the 1987 novel ‘Strangers’ by Taichi Yamada, the film ‘All of Us Strangers’, written and directed by Andrew Haigh, is a fantasy film which constantly oscillates between dream and reality, blurring the thin lines between them. The plot revolves around a television screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) who, torn by his existential angst, lives in a skyscraper in London. He is a victim of lonely suburban existence, also undergoing a writer’s block. Leading a mundane life, spending most of his time lying on his couch eating crisps, he stares at the skyline from his window. One day, he meets his drunk neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) who, too, is weary of the emptiness of urban life and yearns for Adam’s company. But Adam declines the offer.

The next scene cuts to next day when we see Adam attempting to write something about his childhood, ‘EXT Suburban House 1987’, he types. Immediately we see him in a train heading to the suburbs. Here onwards, the film unravels to us the inner world of Adam that is mostly a figment of his imagination or dreams.

‘The interpretation of Dreams’ is a 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, who introduces us to the theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretations. Freud proposed that dreams could provide valuable insight into an individual’s unconscious desires and conflicts. Dreams are a form of ‘wish fulfillment’ as they represent the unconscious desires that our conscious mind represses. In order to analyze Adam’s world of dreams, Freud’s theory seems highly feasible. Through Adam’s world of dreams, we see that he had a turbulent childhood due to the untimely death of his parents as a result of an accident. He, thereby, always longs for their company since he wishes to tell them about his journey of growing up, open up to them regarding his homosexuality and mostly the experience the feeling of home.

As a child after the accident, he never got a proper closure, he wasn’t allowed to bid a final goodbye to his parents as he was kept away from them by his grandmother, who thought it would be too scarring for a child his age back then. But at times it’s important to come in to terms with the harsh realities in order to move ahead in life. Though Adam has grown up into an adult, his mind is still fixated on the childhood memories of his parents. From the deepest corners of his mind the repressed memories of the time he spent with his parents often resurface. In order to fulfil his unfulfilled wishes, he travels on a train to his world of dreams which is a major source of his wish fulfillment as stated by Freud in his theory.

The train in the film stands as a metaphor of a time machine or a cosmic medium which transports him to a parallel world.

Freud used a technique called free association to uncover the latent content of dreams. In this process, a person says whatever comes to his mind, leading to insights about the unconscious wishes the dream represents. This aspect of Freud’s theory is particularly evident in Adam’s conversations with his parents who hasn’t aged and look exactly the same way they looked when he was 12 years old. Through his dreams, he assumes his parents’ reaction to his homosexuality. Being from a small town family of 1980s, his mother (Claire Foy) doesn’t seem pleased when Adam first confesses his sexual preference. She thinks, ‘it’s a very lonely kind of life’ her son has chosen. Adam counters that he may be lonely but it’s not because he’s gay. Then in another conversation with his father (Jamie Bell), we learn that Adam was different since school; he wasn’t masculine enough to throw a ball no matter how many times his father taught him. His father, therefore, knew that Adam is different from the kids around him. As such he wasn’t shocked when Adam’s mom told him about their son’s homosexuality. When Adam asks his father as to why he never said anything despite hearing his son sobbing in his room, his father admits that he would have picked on Adam like the other kids at school if he was of the same age

Freud believed that the latent content of a dream refers to the hidden, symbolic and unconscious meanings or themes behind the events of a dream. This contrasts the manifest content which is the actual storyline or events that occur in the dream as the dreamer remembers them. Adam’s conversations with his parents in his dreams have embedded themes of ignorance and homophobia. He was deprived of proper love and care ever since childhood which left in him a void that he desperately seeks to fill by frequent meet-ups with his parents in his imagination.

In a parallel plot, another story brews between Adam and Harry, possibly his only neighbour whom he shunned the previous day. Adam’s conversations with Harry initially feels rooted in reality until the twist in the end where we discover that Adam’s intimacy with Harry, too, is an element of his dreams. Harry is another homosexual, estranged from his family since they don’t accept him the way he is. However, the two of them are tied together by the yearning to be loved which stems from the lack of parental love in both the cases.

There’s a significant scene where we see an adult Adam snuggling between his parents since he couldn’t sleep at night. The camera shifts to one side so that only Adam and his mother are in the frame. His mother talks how this has been a habit of Adam ever since childhood, when he always used to be scared of murderers breaking in, rabies or nuclear war and therefore couldn’t sleep. Adam continues the conversation on how he used to plan everything as to where they would have vacationed together during his twenties. The frame when moves back…we see Adam’s father is replaced by Harry, who grabs his shoulder and comes in for a kiss.

Transference is a process in Freud’s theory, where the feelings and desires that the individual has towards significant people in their life are transferred onto the therapist. In this case, it is the character of Harry, who is shaped by Adam in such a manner that he meets his emotional quotient.

Through the film, the characters appear and disappear like reflections emerging from Adam’s dream silhouette, at times reversing the process and seemingly merging into one. This process is termed condensation by Freud, where several ideas, or people are combined into a single dream object or event. Adam’s dreams about his childhood and Harry. His fear of not remembering his past enough in reality is compensated by relocating his present through his dreams.

Adam indulges in the process of secondary elaboration, which according to Freud, occurs when the unconscious mind strings together wish-fulfilling images in a logical order of events. This further obscures the latent content, which furthermore involves adding details or creating a storyline that connects the different elements of the dream. Adam adds intricate details by weaving conversations with his parents in his dreams. He shares with them about his love for Harry. While initially they seem hesitant, eventually they approve of the relationship. The closure which he didn’t receive from his parents in real life is received through his dreams wherein he visits his favourite restaurant with them for one last time. They tell him that he must let go off them, in order to find happiness in life. Before leaving, they inquire about the circumstances of their death from Adam and then tearfully, after, reaffirming their love towards him, they vanish.

Dreams thus acts a medium of catharsis for Adam.

The entire movie feels like a dream, or a reality extended into a dream. Andrew Haigh uses dream as a recurrent trope in his narrative because like Harry, he too, one may assume, felt like a stranger in his house while dreams seemed to be best means to cope with this eternal void. In one of the interviews Haigh states, “I think there’s a lot of things that I’m sort of throwing into this film about a child — which is still me- wanting to talk to his parents”. He channelised his longing to bond or exchange conversation with his parents through the character of Adam. In one conversation with his mother, Adam asks, “Is this real?”, And she responds, “Does it feel real?”

As viewers it feels real in a very unreal way. But again, reality is a narrative and narrative is fiction. Thus, reality is kept fluid in the film.

We see Adam upon entering Harry’s flat, discovers the latter’s body in a bathtub holding the same wine bottle that Harry was carrying on the night asking for Adam’s company. Harry’s reappearance just after Adam finds his body stating, “I just needed to not be alone” might suggest that Adam’s inclusion of Harry as an element of his dream is mainly due to Adam’s guilt — the guilt of not allowing him to let in. If he did, Harry might not have died. The way Harry died is fuzzy.

Eventually, the two men curl up next to each other in bed while ‘The Power of Love’ by Frankie Goes to Hollywood plays in the background. We see a warm glow that engulfs them; they merge into a single being. The glow diminishes into a pinprick of light shining in a night sky.

In their final conversation, Harry tells Adam, “I am scared”, while Adam replies, “I know, but I am here with you”, which might be an implication that he amends for his unkind behaviour in the past through his dreams. The film explicates the shades of loneliness using shades of blue in the film’s colour palette placing it both in temporal and spiritual time and space, exploring its devastating impact on people who are afflicted by it. In a subtle way, the film, most importantly, asserts the importance of love and care, which possess the power to comfort people from the pangs of grief. It urges us to refrain from being strangers and instead, be there for each other, by helping each other to heal and thrive. Adam’s world of dreams, his desires, are therefore, manifestations of a feeling of emptiness that engulfs a modern man stuck in the banal urbanity.'