His theory about dreams focuses primarily on sexual desires and symbolism (influenced by the sexually repressed Victorian Era).

Dreams allow the unconscious mind to act out those unacceptable thoughts and desires

Idea of REPRESSED LONGING- The desiresthat we aren’t able to express in a social setting.

Jung felt that dreams allowed us to reflect on our waking selves and solve our problems or think through issues.įreud claims that dreams originated from our primal needs and repressed wishes.Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung’s Theories on Dreams: 5 minutes after the end of a dream we can only remember 50%, ten minutes later only 10%.During the Roman Era, some dreams were submitted to the senate for analysis and interpretation.

When you dream your brain is as active as it is when you are awake.We only remember a dream if we’ve been wokenin the middle.Elephants(and some other animals) sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.When people are snoring, they’re not dreaming.People who have been blind from birth have dreams that are formed from their other senses(ex touch, smell, sound).During a typical lifetime, we spend about 6 years dreaming and have 131,400 dreams.Even thought they may not remember them, everyone dreams several times a night.People don’t just dream in black and white, as was once believed.Most dreams last anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes.

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