Dreams Life

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and dreaming are essential to our mental health ( Howell 105). Together these sudies emphasize the psychological importance of dreams and dreaming. They show how our consciousness maintains its delicate balance. Ken Howell suggests why consciousness is like a scale balancing one side against another and how dreaming is related : On one side of this mental scale our consciousness weighs its conscious experiences. On the opposite side of our mental scale our consciousness weighs its subconscious experiences. When we give more weight or attention to either side of this mental scale, our consciousness becomes unbalanced. Essentially this is why you dream. Sleeping gives our body a chance to regain its strength. Dreaming gives our consciousness a chance to restore its balance (105). Through dreams our consciousness restores its balances by weighting the subliminal influences affecting our life. Dreams are a subliminal language. They are the language of your subconscious mind (Howell ...

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thoughts and desires. Freud also believed that "the purpose of dreams is to allow us to satisfy in fantasies the instinctual urges that society judges unacceptable" (History 209). A second illustious investigator of dreams was Carl Jung. Like Freud, Jung analyzed the dreams of his patients in order to explore the otherwise inaccessible regions of the unconscious mind, and he too believed that dreams are largely symbolic (Americana 115). He added to Freuds new approach by saying that dreams are a tool for learning more about ourselves and for achieving our full potential (Moffett 6). Laboratory studies have shown that we experience our most vivid dreams during a type of sleep ...

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