Essay About Freuds Theory And Laboratory Tests

Dreams
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Are they instructions from the spiritual world or just deep, hidden
wishes that can be used to unlock the secrets of the unconscious mind?
Nobody knows for sure. One theory that is prevalent today is that dreams
result from the physiological “exercise” of the synapses of the brain. There
is no proven fact on why we dream, which is why there are so many
theories on the topic. There is Freuds theory that dreams carry our hidden
desires and Jungs theory that dreams carry meaning, although not always
of desire, and that the dreamer can interpret these dreams. After these
theories, others continued such as the Cayce theory in that dreams are our
bodies means of building up of the mental, spiritual and physical well
being. Finally came the argument between Evans theory and the Crick and
Mitchinson theory. Evans states that dreaming is our bodies way of storing
the vast array of information gained during the day, whereas Crick and
Mitchinson say that this information is being dumped rather than stored.
Whichever theory is true, we may never know, but from these following
theories we can decide for ourselves what we believe to be true and further
help us into understanding our dreams.
My own personal theory on why we dream is that the subconscious mind
is always working. This results in dreams. The subconscious mind in an
attempt to file away all of the information from the previous day results in
dreams. A dream in my opinion is nothing more than a chemical reaction in
the brain. In laboratory tests, when people were awaked during the RAPID
EYE MOVEMENT (REM) stage of sleep and asked to report what was on
their mind just before awaking, about 90% reported an experience termed
TRUE DREAM. When a true dream is experienced is seems as if it were an
actual event rather than one thought or imagined. True dreams often involve
a series of such experiences woven together in a somewhat