I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't a big fan of blogging before I started this assignment. I'm still not really that big on it, but I have to say; It’s grown on me. The lessons that I liked doing the most had to be the ones where I was free to write about whatever I pleased. I thought it was fun writing a movie review on maybe one of the greatest movies on dreams that there is. Doing this assignment has given me some unique life skills as well. People tell me about their dreams and usually I can immediately decipher what their problems in life might be, or just what their silly dreams mean. Another thing I thought was fun was learning the Freudian theory of dreaming. It's dark and demented characteristics were borderline sinister, but they strangely make sense. Some really difficult things to write about was the informational pieces. The only reason for this is because it's difficult to access studies done by reliable sources like colleges/universities. The only was to access that information is if you are a part of a study group, or you are willing to pay for it...and I wasn't quite given the budget needed to grab some of that info. I personally wouldn’t recommend blogging for people that are “on the fence” about doing it. I think that blogging should be something that you’re really committed to, not just a once in a while occasional post. Also, I would recommend that if you are going to start blogging you should take time to pick a topic that you know something about already. Also the topic you pick should be something that your intrigued by. If nothing else, this assignment taught me some new computer skills, so now I am just that much more computer savvy. Writing the movie review was fun because I got to watch “Inception”, and “The Nightmare on Elm Street” again. If I were to do the assignment again, I definitely would not procrastinate as long as I did this time. Dreams were an interesting topic, and there is so much do be discovered about dreams. While I can say with the utmost confidence that I will not be blogging anymore, I may keep up with the most current studies on dream just because I personally find it fascinating. Blogging about dreams also brought me up to speed on the Freudian theory. I heard that he was a wack-job before but reading up on it completely confirmed that he is in fact, “crazier than a loon.” That being said, I’m sure for his time his ideas made sense to most people because of the technology and studies being what they were. All in all, there were some fun aspects to blogging, and some things that made me want to pull my own teeth out of my skull. I pressed on, learned some cool new things about the human brain, sleeping, and most importantly dreams. Goodbye, world of blogging.
Dreams
Monday, January 14, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Last Nights Dream
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Freud vs. Adler
There are many theories for dreams. One theory comes from the works of Sigmund Freud. He is considered to be the father of psychoanalysis, and crazy. He believed in the "Id", the "Ego", and the "Superego". The Id was centered around primal impulses, desires and pleasure whether they are sinful or not. The Ego was concerned with the conscious, basically the lower level of what we would now call our conscience. He believed the Superego was responsible for enforcing the moral codes of the Ego. Freud believed that the reason you cannot remember your dreams is because the superego is doing its job. Basically, it's protecting your awakening mind from your disturbing images and desires created by your subconscious (your "id"s).
Sigmund Freud had contrasting ideas to Alfred Adler. Adler believed basically what most people accept about dreams in today’s society. He believed that dreams had a direct correlation with the events that occurred in your awakening life. Freud believed that sexual impulse is the driving forces for your behavior. Adler believed that control, motivation, and power drive how you act. So basically, Adler didn't believe your actions could be controlled by your "ego", or your "superego".
Both men were prolific pioneers of psychoanalysis and early psychology. Both had similar, although not identical beliefs that environmental forces such as biological and environmental conditions create limitations in the human "capacity to choose and to create". Freud focused on dream interpretation and or analysis and other abstract/symbolic concepts, while Adler concentrated on social relationships and behaviors. The both believed in psychodynamic conflict. This means that the different parts of the mind are constantly struggling against each other. Also, they both thought that emotional motivation was key in order for you to even have a personality.
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Interview with a friend
Q:How much of your dreams do you remember?
A:I dont remember much of my dreams. Just bits and pieces the next morning.
Q:How often do you have nightmares?
A:Quite frequently actually. Usually they are about the same thing though.
Q:What is the most common thing that you dream about?
A:I dream about my family a lot, usually my dreams are pretty uneventful.
Q: Do you have any recurring dreams? Meaning dreams that happen more than once?
A: Sometimes when I get sick, I have a dream that makes me feel anxious, and it's strange that I only get it when I'm sick.
Q: Do you ever have dreams when your exposed in public?
A: Yes, usually I'm in school but no one seems to notice that I'm n ot wearing clothes except me.
Q:When you're in a dream where you're being chased, do you turn around to look at your chaser?
A:No. I guess I dont really think about it, I just run away.
-Interviewee
Paige Pisano
A:I dont remember much of my dreams. Just bits and pieces the next morning.
Q:How often do you have nightmares?
A:Quite frequently actually. Usually they are about the same thing though.
Q:What is the most common thing that you dream about?
A:I dream about my family a lot, usually my dreams are pretty uneventful.
Q: Do you have any recurring dreams? Meaning dreams that happen more than once?
A: Sometimes when I get sick, I have a dream that makes me feel anxious, and it's strange that I only get it when I'm sick.
Q: Do you ever have dreams when your exposed in public?
A: Yes, usually I'm in school but no one seems to notice that I'm n ot wearing clothes except me.
Q:When you're in a dream where you're being chased, do you turn around to look at your chaser?
A:No. I guess I dont really think about it, I just run away.
-Interviewee
Paige Pisano
Review on Nightmare on Elm Street
Review of Inception
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How to Analyze and Overcome Recurring Dreams
Many people often have dreams that occur more than once. The dream may occur once a day, week, or month. It doesn't really matter how often the dreams occur, as long as they happen frequently and the content of the dream doesn't vary too much. The dreams are called recurring dreams. Many times these recurringdreams is your brain trying to tell you that there’s a problem in your lifethat is so urgent, you must search within yourself to find it, and fix it. It's not always easy though to find the problem. It may be something as small as a pimple in the middle of your forehead, or any other tiny insecurity that might be bothering you. It just has to be something that's significant enough to make you think about it and worry about it enough for you to lose sleep over. The patterns of recurring dreams aren’t limited to day to day or week to week. A dream can reoccur when something bad happens to you in your life more than once. For example, or when you get sick or if your significant other breaks up with you. It has been found that events such as these have triggered recurring dreams. Unfortunately, you generally don't have recurring dreams about things that make you happy. Going to parties, having fun...you'd be lucky if you had recurring dreams about events as such. Usually recurring dreams come in nightmarish form that awakens you from slumber. To analyze and correct these dreams one must remember as much about the dream as they can. After recalling the events of said dream, slowly dissect the details of what makes you so uncomfortable about the dream. After this you must try and relate the detail that bothers you the most about your dream to events happening in your life or insecurities you may have about yourself. Then you simply do your best to try and correct the problem. Just attempting to correct the problem may make your brain realize that it's not as big of a deal as it may have thought.
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