Marxist Analysis Of Your Dreams

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A dream is a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. Scientists are still trying to determine why people dream and what the dreams mean. The human brain is a complex idea, and the way it works is a complete mystery (In Your Dreams). To analyze the dreams, first, it is best to write down them down as soon as possible. The more detail the better, and if it is hard to remember the dreams writing down that fact might help the dreamer remember what they dreamed. “Taking notes, even a few sentences that encapsulate the dream, literally draws the content of the unconscious out into the realm of the concrete,” said Jeffrey Sumber (Tartakovsky). Knowing that every dream is about the dreamer is a big part in determining what they mean. “All dreams reflect to us our state of consciousness and our state of being …show more content…

“We are always being called by our unconscious self to feel into our ideas, thoughts and actions so as to gain a deeper sense of who we are and where we are going in our lives,” Sumber said. Humanity would have no dreams if not for feelings (Tartakovsky). Many phycologists have given up trying to interpret dreams because of how difficult it is to understand the complexity of the human brain. According to Psychologist Ian Wallace, one of the few still trying to interpret dreams, everything that takes place in a dream is cause by the dreamers themselves. “Most people think that dreams are something that happens to them, but the reverse is true. We happen to dreams, we create everything in them, every atom, every photon, every person, every event,” Wallace said (Spector). Dreams are images and imagery, thoughts, sounds and voices, and subjective sensations experienced when we sleep. There's no limit to what the mind can experience during a dream and really no rhyme or reason to what you end up dreaming about

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