Dreams are thoughts, emotions and the images shaped by them, which are encountered when asleep. One has dreams during the rapid eye movement sleep. Various theories on dream interpretations exist but the real purpose of dreams is still unknown. Dreams are closely associated with the human psychology. Research shows that during an average lifespan, a human being spends about six years in dreaming which is around two hours every night. Let us look at the dream psychology.
Psychology of Dreams
Sigmund Freud had proposed that dreams are the means of one’s expressions of his/her unconscious wishes. He had said that bad dreams allow the brain to gain control over the feelings that are a result of distressful experiences. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist suggested that dreams compensate for one-sided feelings borne in consciousness. According to Ferenczi, a Hungarian psychoanalyst, a dream bears something that cannot be expressed outright. Some theories say that dreams involve one’s repressed emotions that are fantasized during the sleep while other theories suggest dreams to be an outcome of the cleaning-up operations of the brain.
Hartmann believes that dreams give a person an opportunity to organize his/her thoughts. Blechner’s theory of Oneiric Darwinism, which attributes the generation of new ideas to dreams, is quite supportive of Hartmann’s analysis. Griffin, through his recent research has proposed the expectation fulfillment theory of dreaming, according to which dreaming completes patterns of emotional expectations. (more…)
Psychology is the study of human psyche and mind wherein the mental processes and behavior is analyzed and a relationship is established in the functioning and working of the brain and the influence of daily incidents of life on the functioning. Psychology gives a concrete shape to feelings and it is approached scientifically. Psychology handles with the concept of emotion, personality, concentration, memory, attentiveness and relationships with other people. Nowadays Psychology is considered as an applied science than a mere theory, which was the perception of many conservative thinkers previously. Now Psychology is split into specialized divisions of study like Prenatal Psychology, Child Psychology, Educational Psychology, social Psychology, Industrial Psychology and many more which help in understanding the problem related to a specific field and its solution. Here we would discuss Educational Psychology, which is relevant in today’s competitive world where there is immense pressure on everybody to prove him or herself.