DREAMS AND REOCCURENCE OF FEELINGS

 

 

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We introduce here a pilot study concerning the hypothesis that dreams reoccur preconscious feelings the dreamer experienced in recent life (i.e. a dream is a repetition of recent waking life emotional concerns).

Indeed, this translating approach has been tested on a series of 42 dreams including 344 scenes and 516 “foreground feelings”. We show here that for 67 % of these dreams, the link to the past waking life is a very certain one.

As none of the other dreams contradict this approach, we really can hypothesis that there is a link between the sequence of dreamt-feelings and a sequence of “under-exposed” – one could say preconscious – near-past waking life feelings. (See the examples of the aggressive giant dream, the stoned in flight dream, the little inflatable boat dream, the married mistress dream, irrefutable cases).

Then, considering that dreams are reoccurrences of near-past feelings we link dreamt-images to real-life things through the similarities of the feelings (this is our “translating equation”) , we apply this approach in the case of dreamt-people – including the dreamt-dreamer – and we suggest how we can enter psychological concepts through dreams. (See towards a dreamt-sourced psychology?). Of course, we propose a few words concerning the symbolism.

Unfortunately, our considerations rely upon the dreams of a single individual. That’s why these introspective experiences are just offered for the convenience of subsequent investigators.

Nevertheless, if it is confirmed that dreams reproduce a waking life psychological process which has been experienced the day before, then, we will have to consider dreams as excellent scientific observations (see scientific dimension of dreams).

Then, considering that dreams describe psychology we propose to focus to a very profitable question “how is the psychological field according to the generator of dreams?” and we suggest a first presentation (See Psychology of inclinations).

 

FRIENDLY LINKS:

 

Dream Gate   http://www.dreamgate.com/

Dream Central http://www.sleeps.com/index.html

Dream Journal.org   http://www.dreamjournal.org

RapidEyeMovement   http://www.rapideyemovement.org

SelfhelpMagazine http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/index.html

SelfGrowth.com http://www.selfgrowth.com

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