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Dreamwork is the exploration of the images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes. It differs from classical dream interpretation in that it does not attempt to establish a unique meaning for the dream. In this way the dream remains "alive" whereas if it has been assigned a specific meaning, it is "finished" (i.e., over and done with).
A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. [1] Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, [2] and each dream lasts around 5–20 minutes, although the dreamer may perceive the dream as being much longer than this. [3]
The functional-equivalency hypothesis is that mental images are "internal representations" that work in the same way as the actual perception of physical objects. [33] In other words, the picture of a dog brought to mind when the word dog is read is interpreted in the same way as if the person was observing an actual dog before them.
It consists of all the elements—images, thoughts, emotions, and other content—of which the individual is cognitively aware upon awakening. Illustrated through the iceberg analogy, the manifest content would be identified as the "tip": it is visible above the surface, but implies a large but invisible portion underneath. [ 2 ]
Images and chains of association have their emotional charges displaced from the originating ideas to the receiving one, where they merge and "condense" together. [2] Thus for example a dream figure may resemble A, wear B's clothes and act like C, but nevertheless we know somehow that they are 'really' D - rather as with the composite ...
A thought recording and reproduction device refers to any machine which is able to both directly record and reproduce, via a brain-computer interface, the thoughts, emotions, dreams or other neural/cognitive events of a subject for that or other subjects to experience. While currently residing within mostly fictional displays of the capacity of ...
Emotional ambivalence involved opposing affective attitudes towards the same object, as with the man who both loved and hated his wife. [ 39 ] While mainly dealing with ambivalence in relation to the psychological splitting of schizophrenia, Bleuler also noted how "in the dreams of healthy persons, affective as well as intellectual ambivalence ...
The mental images it manipulates, whether arising from visions, dreams or sensory perception, were thought to be transmitted through the lower parts of the soul, suggesting that these images could be influenced by emotions and primal desires, thereby confusing the judgement of the intellect.