2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Dreams play a big role in our life. They help us get rid of psychological stress after a difficult day, without the participation of consciousness, to survive the traumatic events that happen to us. In therapy, dreams help to get better acquainted with problems, with deep desires and feelings.
For a long time, only esoteric practices have paid attention to dreams. The first who decided to rationally and seriously explain the phenomenon of dreams was Sigmund Freud. He noticed that the symptoms disappeared from the waking life and began to replay in dreams. He realized that this is a compromise between the realization of an unconscious desire and the processes that seek to oust this desire from consciousness. This happens for various reasons. Such a need can be too painful, cause fear, seem stupid and inappropriate, in fact, there can be many feelings.
When the process of forming a dream is in progress, various processes take place.
Thickening process. Everything that happens in everything, all people, all moments, all elements can have common features. As if some important moment is reflected in everything. Sometimes all people in a dream have common features - the same facial outlines or blue eyes, or … you can list endlessly. Also, one element has many images. This happens because it is possible to lower some elements; using a part from a whole; connection of several elements into a single one.
Displacement process. Some feelings and thoughts are shifted from one object to another. This is a very complex process and difficult to grasp. And this happens to relieve the load on significant elements.
Symbolization process. Some individually significant symbols are replaced with common and universal symbols.
Complement process. Dreams are formed from important memories of the past and what happened on the eve of the dream. Often these are completely different events and this process fills in the gaps between disparate facts and helps to perceive the dream as a whole. But this does not always work and then dreams seem ridiculous to us.
The dream is always divided into manifest content and what is hidden behind this manifest content. And it is hidden because something that is hidden because of the painful nature. It can be thoughts, desires, fantasies.
Dream analysis can be an effective way to advance in therapy. At the initial stage of psychotherapy, attention in the dream and its analysis is focused on superficial facts and the "day's rest". Sleep analysis begins with recent events, and not with deep feelings and events that happened long ago.
In the process of joint analysis, many people treat dreams as something incomprehensible and mystical. Over time, the understanding comes that what happens in dreams is directly related to real life and past events. The person learns that dreams can be analyzed and understood. That all worries and mental problems are reflected in dreams.
As therapy develops, dream material accumulates and one can gradually move from superficial analysis to deeper things: long-standing events that are reflected in dreams, hidden feelings that cause various difficulties. In the later stages of psychotherapy (before and during the completion of therapy), dreams help to more fully reveal the ongoing processes, their meaning and content. In the final stage of therapy, dreams allow you to understand and work through unattended anxieties and fears.
If you have any questions, you can ask me, and I am ready to answer them.
Mikhail Ozhirinsky - psychoanalyst, group analyst.
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