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DREAMS

We must deal with that important and significant activity that occurs during our sleep, the ‘night’ dream. In general, it may be said that night dreaming is a repetition of the same process that goes on in day-dreams. Experienced psychologists have pointed to the fact that the character of human beings may easily be read from their dreams. Actually dreams have preoccupied mankind to an enormous degree since the dawn of history. In the sleep dream, as in the day-dream, we are dealing with an attempt to map, plan and direct the future life towards a goal of security. The most obvious difference is that day-dreams are comparatively easily understood, whereas sleep dreams are only seldom comprehended. It is not surprising that dreams are not readily understandable, and we might easily be tempted to see in this an indication that dreams are superfluous and insignificant. For the time being let it be said that the striving for power of individuals who are seeking to overcome difficulties and maintain their position in the future is echoed in their dreams. Dreams offer us important insights into the problems of someone’s emotional life.

Day-Dream: The fantasies of children and grown-ups, sometimes called day-dreams, are always concerned with the future. These ‘castles in the air’ are the goal of their activity, built up in fictional form as models for real activity. Studies of childhood fantasies show clearly that the striving for power plays the predominant role. Children express their ambition in their day-dreams. Most of their fantasies begin with the words ‘when I grow up’, and so on. There are many adults who live as though they too were not yet grown up. The clear emphasis on the striving for power indicates again that the psyche can develop only when a certain goal has been set; in our civilization, this goal involves social recognition and significance. An individual never stays long with any neutral goal, for the communal life of humankind is accompanied by constant self-evaluation giving rise to the desire for superiority and the hope of success in competition.

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