The Psychology of Dreams

Everybody dreams while sleeping, dreams are full of adventures, emotions, sensations, and dramatic situations of our experiences across our daily life. Dreams genuinely occur when you are sleeping, during this time your eyeball moves rapidly, and inside your brain dreaming process prevails. Since renaissances, there are numerous psychologists, scientists, and behavior analysis enthusiasts, who put forward their logical research, analysis, interpretation, and theories to illustrate the reasons behind dreams but unfortunately, the reality of the dream is still unknown. Well, dreams relate totally to the human psychology. 

In psychological research, research says that an average human being spends about 6 years dreaming if summing up his whole life hours’ i.e. approximately 2 hours of dreams every night.

Let’s have a deeper insight into dream psychology, why we have dreams, is there any message our brain signals us through dreams and how to deduce our dreams.

• Dreams are the replica of your innermost desires that you wish for
• While you are sleeping your brain reorganizes your thoughts and memories, consequently making you experience dreams.
• Your mental representation modifies while you are dreaming.
• Certain dreams are based on whatever you visualize and percept through visual and auditory forms from your surroundings.
• Your dream interpretation entirely depends upon your perception and relation to that instance in your life.

Let’s comprehend the theories supporting these facts.

Dr. Sigmund Freud propposedthat dreams are the outcomes of an individual’s unconscious desires. According to him, our brain learns to control over distressful feelings that emerge from bad experiences of life. A Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung explained that our incomplete desires are accomplished in our consciousness while dreaming. Whereas, a Hungarian Psychoanalyst suggested that, our dreams express actuality that might not be shown when awake.   There are numerous theories which explain that, whatever we saw in dreams, is the outcome of our emotions that erupt out of agitated circumstances of routine life. Other theories suggest that dreams are the outcome of cleaning-up operations of the brain.

One of the internationally identified psychologists Hartmann believes that our dreams provide us with an opportunity to systematize our thoughts. And, according to Griffin, dream completes the patterns of our emotional expectations. This means, those selfish expectations of life that we always dreamed of acquiring, remains in our subconscious brain, and when we slept, our brain started to complete these expectations. Therefore, it always happens to everybody, when we strongly wish for something, we get that in our dreams first.   

Sources of dreams

Well, our dreams generate from viewing physical surroundings, cultural backgrounds, and experiences one exposed to. Moreover, your colorful dreams are due to your long-term exposure to colorful media in your life. This is proven from the researches that when there was no impact of colorful media over people, their dream visuals were black and white. Various psychologists believe that colors in dreams interconnect with emotions related to that color. Also, Scientists believe that when you are dreaming, actually you watch them like viewers.

In a nutshell, dream psychology believes that interpretation of the dreams of every individual depends upon his life experiences, circumstances, and emotions related to them. In order to understand your dream, keep track of your dreams, jot down your dreams and analyze what are your wishes and desires and what are your dreams. Follow the pattern of your dreams to understand the working of your brain and psychology behind your dreams.