Dreams and Your Health Pay Attention to Your Dreams, Improve Your Health
100 Years of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams 100 Years of Study of the Human Mind
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* Dreams can help us solve the problems that occupy our waking thoughts if we only pay attention to them.
* Sometimes solutions, lying just below our level of awareness, emerge in dreams. For example, Francis Crick saw the double helix in a dream when he was struggling to develop a model for DNA.
* You must be able to pay attention to your dreams in order to use them to help you resolve problem areas in your life.
* Each dream is unique to its dreamer, because no two minds are exactly alike--and as Nobel Laureate neuroscientist Gerald Edelman says, every human brain is unique--no two brains have the same patterns of networks.
* Written guides to dream symbolism are useless in helping a dreamer understand his or her dreams because of the uniqueness of every human brain.
* Dreams enable you to solve many of your problems that, like all problems, weigh on your mind and wear you down. You just have to take the time to pay attention to them.
* Dreams offer a wealth of information about ourselves--- free for the taking if we spend some time understanding them.
* How many times have we said: "I had this dream last nightÖ. ", but don't take the time to learn about ourselves because we dismiss the dream and don't think about it?
* We all look for ways to solve our problems and enhance our capacity for enjoyment of our work, and enjoyment of a satisfying life--and our capacity to love. Paying attention to our dreams is a ready way to do so.
* What is a dream? Freud said: " A dream appears to be a reaction to everything that is simultaneously present in the sleeping mind as currently active material." (The Interpretation of Dreams.)
* Freud refers both to memories of what has occurred most recently in the dreamer's life and to memories of what has occurred in the past in the dreamer's life. Freud also is referring to the emotionally significant events of our early childhood which have had an indelible effect on us even if we have no conscious memory of them.
* Psychoanalysis provides a method for learning about one's inner life.
* Psychoanalysis can "set you free", and as Freud said, restore our capacity for meaningful work and our capacity for love--paying attention to our dreams is invaluable to solving our problems.
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