What are the benefits of dreamy therapy?
For most people, dreams contain meaningful, deliberate and real news related to the events of their lives. There are also a number of accounts concerning the scientific problems that have been solved and literary works that have been developed as a result of a dream. However, some research works suggest that dreams are a reflection of the problems that Dreamer experiences in real life, and the therapy of dreams is used to facilitate the emotional solution of these problems. Other advantages of dreamy therapy include the perception of everyday needs, wishes and desires of man, as well as understanding his imagination.
The occurrence of dreams during sleep is a long controversial subject. The ancient Egyptians discussed and interpreted dreams, while the ancient Greeks believed that these were reports from the gods. Greek scholars, such as Hippocrates and Aristotle, believed that dreams reveal physiological information about the upcoming physical disorders. In the end, these beliefs were forgotten due to lack of scientific evidence. Only in 1900 when Sigmund Freud,The initiator of psychoanalysis and the first to conduct a scientific analysis of the human unconscious mind, has begun modern dream research.
Psychoanalysis consists in researching the human mind and the treatment of emotional or psychological disorders. The human mind is composed of a conscious part called ego , unconscious parts called id, and the conscience called superego . Between these three parts is a strong boundary that separates the ego from disturbing thoughts in ID; However, the boundary weakens during sleep, allowing disturbing ideas from the ID to reach the ego and evokes superego to release warnings. These activities result in conflicts within a person and usually manifest themselves in their Dreams.
Conflicts in dreams can lead to anxiety and depression because the ego seeks to maintain control by having a "match" with other parts that can manifest itself as inhibitions that can cause abnormal behavior. Psychoneurotic symptoms of aheadThey involve psychoanalysis, anxiety, depression and abnormal behavior. Patients should seek psychoanalytic treatment such as dream therapy to treat these symptoms. While analysis of dream content includes a simple description and classification of objects in dreams, dream therapy includes a deep interpretation of symbolic representations in dreams.
During the dream therapy, the patient folds down on a comfortable couch when the analyst sits. The patient's position and analyst allow the patient to concentrate on his thoughts without any distraction from the analyst. With the analyst instruction, the patient may allow the patient something about his dreams, so far he remembers painful memories or hidden desires. The analyst would then interpret dreams and try to establish a connection between dreams and patients' memories or desires.