What's wrong with dreaming about the future and realizing it?

Climbing mountains and wading alone, cutting through thorns; When he finally climbs up an open field with a wide field of vision and finds that the next journey is smooth, he'd better stop and think about what to do next [1]. Similarly, we are now on the way to learn "dream interpretation", and we should make such efforts at this time. Now, we have found the first light. Dream, it is not groundless, meaningless, absurd, nor a part of conscious lethargy, but only a few products of early sleep and less waking. This is a completely meaningful spiritual phenomenon. Actually, the wish came true. It can be considered as a continuation of mental activities in a sober state. It is produced by highly complex intellectual activities. However, when we are proud of these discoveries, many problems also follow. If dreams are theoretically the so-called wish realization, how can this realization be explained in such a special and unusual way? How much deformation has our dream consciousness undergone before it forms a dream image in our memory after waking up? How did these deformations occur? Where does the dream material come from? There are many characteristics in dreams. How can arms contradict each other? Can dreams guide our inner spiritual activities? Can you correct our thoughts during the day? In my opinion, it's best to put aside this pile of problems for a while and focus on only one aspect. We find that dreams are the realization of wishes, and the next step is to decide. Is this a common feature of all dreams? Or that's just the special content of a dream we just analyzed (about injecting a horse). Because even if we come to the conclusion that "all dreams have their meaning and spiritual value", we still need to consider the possibility that "every dream has a different meaning". The first dream we have considered is the realization of our wishes, but it is very likely that the second dream is to discover hidden worries, the third dream is self-review, and the fourth dream is just to wake up memories. Isn't it a wish? What are your dreams besides success? Or is this the only dream?

The "wish realization" represented by dreams is often undisguised and extremely obvious, which makes people wonder why dreams are only recently understood. Some dreams, I can often experiment and do whatever I want. For example, I ate pickles or other salty food that night, and I would wake up with thirst at night. But before this "wake up", I often have a dream with the same content-I'm drinking water, and I'm drinking a big bowl of water, which tastes like my throat is cracked and tastes as good as cold ice water. Then I woke up and found that I really wanted to drink water. The reason for this dream is that I feel thirsty after waking up. This feeling causes the desire to drink water, and the dream tells me that it makes this desire come true, so it does have its function, and its essence I will mention soon. I usually sleep well and am not easily disturbed by physical needs; If I can quench my thirst with this dream of drinking water, I can wake up without thirst. It is such a "convenient dream" that dreams replace actions. Unfortunately, however, the need to drink water to quench my thirst can't be satisfied by my dreams like my desire for revenge against Dr. M and Otto, but the motivation is the same. Not long ago, I had a slightly different dream. Before going to bed this time, I felt thirsty, so I drank the boiling water by the bed and went to bed. But in the middle of the night, I felt sick because of thirst. If I want to drink more water, I have to get up and get a teacup from a small chair beside my wife's bed. Therefore, I dreamed that my wife brought me water from an urn. I bought and collected this urn from Etruria, an ancient country in western Italy. However, the water tastes salty (maybe there are ashes in it! ) That I had to wake up. Dreams are so understanding. Because the realization of a wish is the only goal of a dream, its content is likely to be completely selfish. In fact, it is difficult to covet comfort without conflict with caring for others. Dreaming of the urn is probably another wish come true. It's a pity that I can't have that urn any more, just like a teacup on my wife's bedside. I can't get it now. And this jar is very suitable for the salty taste in my dream, which is why I can? Urge me to wake up [2].

When I was a child, this kind of "convenient dream" often happened. At that time, I often worked late into the night, so I got up in the morning, right? For me, this has become a fatal task. So in the early morning, I often dream that I have got up and am refreshed, instead of worrying about not getting up, so that I can continue to sleep soundly. A hospital colleague who was as sleepy as me had the same dream, and his dream was even more absurd and interesting. He rented a room not far from the hospital, and the landlord would wake him up at a fixed time every morning. One morning, while this guy was sleeping soundly, the landlord knocked at the door again. "Mr. Energetic, get up!" Time to go to the hospital. "So he had the following dream: he was lying on the bed in the hospital ward with a medical record hanging on his head, which read" Pepi M, a medical student, aged 22 ",so he turned over and fell asleep again. Afterwards, he confessed? Admit that the motivation of this dream is nothing more than dozing off [3]!

Another example: one of my female patients once had an unsuccessful jaw operation and was told by the doctor to apply cold compress to her sick cheek every day. However, once she falls asleep, she often tears off all the cold compresses. One day, she took off her compress in her sleep, so I said a few words to her. Unexpectedly, she had the following excuse: I really didn't have a choice this time, which was completely caused by my dream at night. In my dream, I was in the box of the opera house, singing with rapt attention. It suddenly occurred to me that Mr. Meyer was lying in a nursing home, suffering from jaw pain. I said to myself, "since I have no pain myself, I don't need these cold compresses, so I threw them away." The poor patient's dream reminds me that when we are in an unhappy situation, we often say, "OK! Then I want something more pleasant! " And this dream is such a "happy thing". As for Mr Meyer, who was accused by this patient of having a sore chin, it was just her own accident? Just a friend of mine.

In some healthy people, I can easily collect some dreams of "wish realization". Someone who knows my dreams? On friends, explain these theories to your wife. One day he said to me, "My wife dreamed that her period came again last night. You probably know this very well!" " "Of course, I know very well that when a young lady dreams that her period is coming, it actually stops. It can be imagined that she really wants to get rid of a period of time and has no burden of having children. Another friend wrote to tell me that his wife recently dreamed that her coat was covered with milk, which was actually a precursor to pregnancy. But this is not their first child, but this young mother. How much is she looking forward to this upcoming second child? A child has more milk to eat.

A young woman has been unable to participate in social activities for a long time because she has been in the isolation ward all the year round, taking care of children suffering from infectious diseases? Activities. She once had a dream that her son was recovering. She is with many writers, including Dodd, Bogart, Proft and others, and they are all very kind to her. In the dream, these people's faces are exactly the same as her collection of portraits. Proft, this person's appearance, she is not familiar with, but it looks like the first person to enter this ward for disinfection from the outside for a long time. Obviously, this dream can be interpreted as: "It will no longer be a boring nursing job." Happy days are coming! "

It seems that these collections are enough to show that no matter how complicated dreams are, most of them can be interpreted as the realization of wishes. Even the content is often visible and not hidden. Most of them are short dreams, which are in sharp contrast to those complicated dreams, so that dream interpreters need to spend special brains to study. However, as long as you are willing to discuss these shortest dreams again, you will find it really worthwhile. I think children's psychological activities are simpler than those of adults, so what they do in MUBI is simpler. And according to my experience, just as we study the structural development of lower animals to understand the structure of higher animals, we should be able to discuss the psychology of children more to understand the psychology of adults. However, what a pity! Naturally, so far, few people of insight can use the study of children's psychology to achieve this goal.

Children's dreams are often simple wishes [4], so they are more boring than adults' dreams. However, what about it? Although children can't cause any big problems, they provide us with priceless proof that the essence of dreams is the realization of wishes. I used to? Many such dreams have been collected by my own children.

1896 In the summer, when my family went hiking in Holstadt, my eight-and-a-half-year-old daughter and my five-year-old son both had a dream. I must explain first that we lived on a hill near Lake Austin that summer. When the weather is clear, we can see Mount Dach. If we add a telescope, we can see Simon's cabin on the mountain more clearly. Children somehow like to look at this telescope every day. Before hiking, I explained to the children that our destination, Holstadt, is located at the foot of the big river. They are particularly excited about it. When Holstadt once again entered Yersi Qian Shan Valley, the children were even more delighted with the changing scenery. But the five-year-old man is getting impatient. As soon as he saw the mountain, he asked, "Is that Daheshan?" And my answer is always: "no, it's still a hill under Dache Mountain." After asking this question several times, he was silent and refused to climb the stone steps with us to see the waterfall. At that time, I thought he was tired enough. Unexpectedly, the next morning, he came to tell me cheerfully: "Last night, I dreamed that we came to Simone's cabin." I understand now that when I said I was going to Dache Mountain, his heart was full of the idea that he would be able to cross the mountains from Holstadt with a telescope every day to reach his dream Simone cabin. Once he learned that he could only end up with a waterfall at the foot of the mountain, he was too disappointed and dissatisfied. But the dream compensated him. At that time, I tried to ask the details of this dream again, and he just said, "You only need to climb the stone steps for six hours to get there." What's left? Blank, silent poverty.

During this hiking trip, my eight-and-a-half-year-old daughter also had some lovely wishes, which were realized through her dreams. Shall we go this time? When Holstadt was a child, he took his neighbor 12-year-old boy Emil with him. The child is very gentle and has the demeanor of a little gentleman, which is quite popular with my daughter. The next morning, she told me, "Dad! I dreamed that Emily was a member of our family. He called you "father" and "mother" and slept in the big berth with our boys. Soon, my mother came in and threw a hand full of chocolate lollipops wrapped in blue and green paper under our bed. " My little boy, this guy, I obviously didn't give him any truth about dream interpretation. Just like the writer I mentioned before, it is ridiculous to scold his sister's dream. And my daughter is still trying to defend part of her dream. At this time, if we look at this part from the perspective of mental illness theory, what is the part she is trying to do? She said, "It is absurd to say that Emily is a member of my family, but it makes sense about chocolate lollipops." The latter part really puzzled me, and later my wife gave me a reasonable explanation. It turned out that on the way home from the station, the children stopped in front of the vending machine and clamored to buy chocolate lollipops wrapped in metallic paper, just like their daughter dreamed. But the wife thinks that this day is enough for them to have fun, so leave this wish to their dreams! And this episode that I didn't notice, through what my wife said, everything in my daughter's dream, I easily understood. That day, I heard my little gentleman walking in front of me and shouting to my daughter, "Go slowly, and wait until' Dad' and' Mom' come up." My daughter turned this temporary relationship into permanent naturalization in her dream. In fact, her daughter's feelings are only intimacy in her dreams, not the kind that her brother condemns her and that little boy as friends forever. But why did you put the chocolate lollipop under the bed? Of course, it is impossible to understand its meaning without asking the child. My friend once told me a dream like my son's, which was an eight-year-old girl's dream. Her father took several children hiking in Lombardy, hoping to go to Lauraire's cabin again, but because it was too late, he turned back halfway and promised the children to come again next time. But on the way home, they saw a road sign to Hami. The children clamored to go to Hami, but similarly, her father only promised them to take them another day. The next morning, the little girl excitedly told her father, "Dad, I dreamed last night that you took me to Lauraire cabin and went to Hami." So? In the dream, her impatience contributed to the early realization of her father's promise.

Also, when my daughter was three years old and three months old, her dream about the charming scenery of Lake Austin was equally wonderful. This little home? Dude, when we took her swimming around the lake for the first time, it might be because she went ashore too fast, but she was dissatisfied and clamored not to go ashore. Cry and make a scene. The next morning, she told me, "I dreamed that I was wandering on the lake last night." I hope this dream trip will make her fuller? Enough!

My eldest son, when he was eight years old, had already dreamed of realizing his fantasy. He is reading the hope his sister gave him with great interest.

On the night of myth, I dreamed that Achilles and I were riding on the battlefield in a chariot driven by Diomedes.

If I can count children's conversations in the field of dreams, I will take the following passage as my earliest collection material. When my youngest daughter was only 19 months old, she vomited badly one morning and was not fed all day. And that night, I heard her inarticulate dream: "Anna Freud, Cao Mei ..., Ye Mei (grass), (fire) omelet, bread porridge ...", so she brought out what she wanted under her own name, and these dishes were her favorite. So she vented her dissatisfaction in her dream [6]. When we say that children are happy because they have no sexual desire, we should not ignore that children also have a lot of disappointment, abandonment and dream stimulation caused by other life impulses [7]. This is another example. My nephew, when he was 22 months old, asked him to wish me a happy birthday and gave me a small basket of cherries on my birthday (at that time, cherry production was very small and extremely expensive). It seems that he is reluctant to keep saying, "Here are cherries" and never wants to throw away the little basket. However, he still knows how not to let himself suffer. The trick is this: he once told her mother every morning that he dreamed that an officer in a white military robe whom he once envied in the street would come to see him again, but the day after he reluctantly gave me the basket of cherries, he woke up and happily announced, "What did that officer leave behind?" All the cherries have been eaten up. "

I don't know what dreams animals have. But I remember a student once told me a proverb:? "What did the goose dream?" The answer is, "corn." (Author's Note: Frenchy once recorded the Hungarian proverb "What do pigs dream of? Yao? " ? "Sue." ) Dreams are a set of theories about the realization of wishes, which can be summarized in almost two sentences [9].

Now we can simply see the true meaning hidden in our dreams in very simple words. It is true that there is no lack of irony and contempt for dreams in proverbs and wisdom notes, just as scientists say that dreams are like bubbles, but as far as spoken English is concerned, dreams are indeed wonderful "realization of wishes." When we find the facts unexpected and excited, can we not help but sigh "I dare not think so even in my most absurd dreams" [10]?