The Role of Dreams in the Human Psyche
The Role of Dreams in the Human Psyche.
Plan: 1) The history of dream perception in indigenous cultures.
2) The modern theories of sleep and dream interpretation.
3) Jung 's archetypes. The Meaning of Sleep and Dreams identified by Freud, Jung, and other theorists.
We all dream. Every night - as we dim the light of consciousness - we enter the realm of the dream. In this dream state our imagination runs free with little or no interference from our conscious mind. In the morning, when we awaken and return to consciousness, we may bring with us a recollection of the wanderings of our imagination - we remember the dream. To dream is natural, it is a universal experience. All people of all cultures enter into this dream state when they sleep. As sleep research has shown even animals dream. How we regard the dream, however, varies from culture to culture and from person to person.
Originally the dream was held to be the voice of God. Most indigenous cultures hold that the dream is sent by the Great Spirit and serves to offer advice and instruction. This idea of the divinity of the dream can also to be found in ancient Egyptian and Greek society. In the Old Testament Jacob interprets a dream for the Egyptian pharaoh. Jacob explains that God has spoken to the pharaoh and warned of seven years of prosperity to be followed by seven years of famine.
In Egypt and Greece the dream was considered as a message from the gods. “The Egyptian people believed that the gods revealed themselves in dreams, but the soul was not transported to another place or time. The Egyptians believed that dreams served as warnings, advice, and prophecy” (Agee, 2010) http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/ancientnovel (Diane Agee, 1).Both Egyptian and Greek society there existed temples where one would go to dream and receive healing or instruction from the gods. Homer 's Iliad (8th century BC) tells the story of Agamemnon who receives
Plan: 1) The history of dream perception in indigenous cultures.
2) The modern theories of sleep and dream interpretation.
3) Jung 's archetypes. The Meaning of Sleep and Dreams identified by Freud, Jung, and other theorists.
We all dream. Every night - as we dim the light of consciousness - we enter the realm of the dream. In this dream state our imagination runs free with little or no interference from our conscious mind. In the morning, when we awaken and return to consciousness, we may bring with us a recollection of the wanderings of our imagination - we remember the dream. To dream is natural, it is a universal experience. All people of all cultures enter into this dream state when they sleep. As sleep research has shown even animals dream. How we regard the dream, however, varies from culture to culture and from person to person.
Originally the dream was held to be the voice of God. Most indigenous cultures hold that the dream is sent by the Great Spirit and serves to offer advice and instruction. This idea of the divinity of the dream can also to be found in ancient Egyptian and Greek society. In the Old Testament Jacob interprets a dream for the Egyptian pharaoh. Jacob explains that God has spoken to the pharaoh and warned of seven years of prosperity to be followed by seven years of famine.
In Egypt and Greece the dream was considered as a message from the gods. “The Egyptian people believed that the gods revealed themselves in dreams, but the soul was not transported to another place or time. The Egyptians believed that dreams served as warnings, advice, and prophecy” (Agee, 2010) http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/ancientnovel (Diane Agee, 1).Both Egyptian and Greek society there existed temples where one would go to dream and receive healing or instruction from the gods. Homer 's Iliad (8th century BC) tells the story of Agamemnon who receives
References: Academic:1.S. V. Sokolowskii. Dream Reality: The Unconscious of Russian Anthropology. Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia.Vol.46, Number 2 / Fall 2007. EBSCO. 2. Are you getting enough? Proquest. Google: 1. Craig Jarman. Jung 's Rediscovery of Dreams. Retrieved from http://www.dreamanalysis.info/ 2. Diane Agee. The History of Greek Dream Interpretation. Retrieved from the website of the University of Carolina of Willmington. http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/ancientnovel