Chapters 4 & 5

According to the book, it states that dreams happen three or four times during the night. Wow! I can’t even tell you the last time I remember having a dream. I think it has been months. Why is it that when I do dream, I dream of random things, like random people, me on my way to my wedding (keep in mind I’m not even engaged), and the worst dream I have ever had was when one of my family members died. So, reading chapter 4 was very interesting. After doing some of my reading last night about Lucid dreams I had all intentions on trying to concentrate on something that I wanted to dream about and finding it again in the dream, but I was so tired that I forgot. I will try to do that again tonight so I can perhaps have a Lucid dream! Freud stated that dreams, “represented unacceptable sexual and aggressive desires repressed in the unconscious.” Carl Jung stated that dreams, “emerged from a nonsexual level of meaning.” I tend to agree with Jung’s idea. I think that sexual and aggressive desires are more of a fantasy. As far as dreaming of having a near death experience, my heart goes out to any of you that have had one of those dreams. I think that would really make you look at life in a different perspective. That would be one dream I would not want to come true!

After reading about Blake and A. E. Housman, school work would be so much easier if I had dreams like Blake who stated that, “an entire poem came to him word for word in a dream” and A. E. Housman who also had dreams that lines and verses would could to him so that he could write his poems.

I like the book’s description about “daydreaming”. It associated daydreaming to wish fulfillment. I can relay with the statement that daydreaming involves, “turning away from the external world and tuning in to the inner world, and occurs when there is an absence of pressing outside events demanding conscious attention and that is can also be used as a means of escape from unpleasant reality.”