Dreams

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brief definition for,
as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the
impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of
ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity
during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of
mental functioning that Freud coined the term "Kingdom of the Illogical" to
describe that realm of the human psyche. This technique of dream-
interpretation allowed him to penetrate (Fine, 1973).

We dream every single night whether it stays with us or not. It is a time
when "our minds bring together material which is kept apart during out
waking hours" (Anonymous, 1991). As Erik Craig said while we dream we
entertain a wider range of human possibilities then when awake; the "open
house" of dreaming is less guarded (Craig, 1992).

Superficially, we are all convinced that we know just what a "dream" is.
But the most cursory investigation into the dream's essence suggests ...

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remember
nothing but a single fragment, which itself has much uncertainty. Secondly,
there is every reason to suspect that our memory of dreams is not only
fragmentary but inaccurate and falsified. On the one hand it may be doubted
whether what we dreamt was really as hazy as our recollection of it, and on
the other hand it may also be doubted whether in attempting to reproduce it
we do not fill in what was never there, or what was forgotten (Freud,
pg.512).

Dream accounts are public verbalization and as public performances, dream
accounts resemble the anecdotes people use to give meaning to their
experience, to entertain friends and to give or get a form of satisfaction
( Erdelyi, 35 ...

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