1. Dreams helps us solve our problems.
2. Dreams show us the future.
3. Dreams are caused by mental activity while we're sleeping.
4. Dreams reflect our subconsicious.
5. Our spirits travel the world in our dreams.
Every Culture has attempted to interpret the meaning of dreams. In some cultures preople believed that during a dream the spirit leaves the body and travels around. Others believed that the future can be seen in dreams For example, a pleasant dream might suggest good fortune the next day. This is still believed by some cultures today. Later on, Sigmund Freud, the famous psychologist, came up with another theory. Freud analysed the dreams of many people. He concluded that dreams reflect our inner psychological world- our unconscious wants and concerns. This idea was popular for a long time.
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Some psychologists claim that dreams not only reflect our waking conerns but also provide us with the opportunity to resolve them.Rosalind Cartwright has been investigating this hypothesis for many years.Among people suffering from divorce, she found, recovery is related to a particular pattern of dreaming: the first dream of night often comes sooner than it ordinarily would, lasts longer and is more emotional and story-like.
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One explanation of dreams holds that they reflect the ongoing conscious preoccupations of waking life, such as concerns over health. In this approach to dreaming, the symbols in a dream do not disguise its true meanings; they convey it.For example, pyschologist Gayle Delaney told of a woman who dreamed she was swimming underwater. The woman's eight-year-old son was on her back, his head above water. Her husband was supposed to take pictures, but wasn't, and she was starting to feel she was going to drown. To Delaney, the message was obvious: the woman was "drowning" under the responsibilities of child care, and her husband wasn't "getting the picture".