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Using your dreams'
o rt . Taylor
Since the days of the famed
Sigmund Freud p�chol .
h e kno n that the correct
interpretation of dream can
p ay an' important role in
penon's life. Freud him If
once rote," . . . there i a
phychological technique hich
m e it po bl to interpret
dream, and . . . every dream
will reveal it If psychologi­
cal ructure, full of signifi­
cance .. ."
Ho ever, before going fur­
ther do 0 th road to dream
analysi . first, ord 00 hat
dream are not. De ite all
the ories you have heard and
m ybe fe conicidences in
your 0 n life, dream do not
predi t the future and they
cannot determine hich num­
ber you ould pl y in your
te lottery.
But the correct analy' of
dreams can help you under-
and ppre d wishe or de-
sire and bconscious mental
tendencie hich could be in-
hibiting your growth a
person or preveoing you from
chleving greater h ppine in
life.
Stated differently, dream do
not predict the future but
correct analysi s of dream can
help you better understand
your lf and thu better enable
you to determine your future.
Dream analysis from the
Freudian perspective starts ith
the following assumptions:
1) All Dream Have Psy-
chological eaning. In addit­
'on, Freud developed a techni­
que which he id allow for the
correct interpretation of dreams.
2) All Dream Reflect ish­
fullfillment. In other word,
either in a raight forward or
di orted y, your dreams
I reflect mething you desire.
Here is here e run into con­
troversy. If someone dreams
eing that wish-fulfillment.
But ppo per n dream
of bein raped or murdered.
Obviou ly, that cannot be wish-
. fulfillment?
Freud' an er to th
pparent conflict between his
i-fulfillment thesi and wh t
he referred to "painful
dream" a that the key to
,
correct dream analy . as not
to target the content of the
dream but to target thought
behind the content.
In other ords, a person
dreaming of being raped may
not ctually desire to -be raped
but they could have a sub­
consciou wish that rape or
meother misfortune befall
meone they kno .
3) All Dreams Are Prompt­
ed By Some Experience of the
I Preceding Day. The particular
experience may not. even figure
promiently in the ream. But
there wa mething about the
experience hich prompted the
dream. Thu, being able to
determine wh t experience from
the day prompt a dream later
that night i key to under­
standing hidden desires and b­
con ious tendencie .
4) One Should ot ttempt
To Interpret A Dream A A
Whole. ccording to Freud,
dreams can only be correctly
interpreted by analyzing their
compoent parts. Thus, not
only Is hat happened in the
dream significant but also im­
portant are where it happens,
when it happens and who i
present in the dream.
Other aspect of correct
dream analysis include the
general meanin of such com­
mon dream theme a x,
flying and falling. Suffice it
to y that these theme in
me w y deal with concerns
of self -e teem, per nal
curity and fears.
Space restraints do not aIlo
u to go further now.
But remember, we have
develop d a "Dream Self­
Analysis Kit" based on the
Freudian method. This it
should enable you to more
specifically interpret your
dream. It' something you
can do at home but you must
be hone with your If. The
kit is only 5.95 from Law­
Tay, Inc., P.O. Box 54041,
ashington, D.C. 20032.
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