Dreams “sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person's mind"

Dream Information Occurs during REM Sleep unable to control our actions and choose surroundings dreams can be understood in the context of repressed thoughts

Dream Information When we go to sleep at night and slip into our dream state, we feel liberated and behave and act in a manner that we do not allow ourselves in our waking life.

Dream Facts One-third of your lives is spent sleeping In an average lifetime, you would have spent a total of about six years of it dreaming. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost. Our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake. In a poll, 67% of Americans  have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males. 

Why should you bother remembering your dreams? 1. Your dreaming mind has access to information that is not readily available to you when you are awake. Your dreams may reveal your secret desires and subconscious feelings. 2. In remembering your dreams, you will have an increased knowledge about yourself, bring about self-awareness and self-healing.  Dreams are an advertisement extension of how you perceive yourself. They can be a source of inspiration, wisdom, and joy. 3. Learning to recall your dreams may help you become a more assertive person.  In remembering your dreams, you are expressing and confronting your feelings.    4. Remembering your dreams can help you come to terms with stressful aspects of your lives.  

Types of Dreams Daydreams Lucid Dreams Nightmares Recurring Dreams Healing Dreams Prophetic Dreams Signal Dreams Epic Dreams

Daydreams disregarded and a neglected aspect of dream study occurs when you are semi-awake spontaneous imagining or recalling of various images or experiences in the past or future. Positive daydreaming is healthy.

Lucid Dreams Simply dreaming while being aware you are dreaming Gives us the ability to control our own dreams and steer them toward the direction we want.  When we achieve lucidity, we can use it as a tool to improve our sports game, to rehearse a speech, to fulfill our fantasies, or to solve a problem in our waking life. It occurs in REM Sleep

Nightmares Dream with frightening and/or emotional content. Wake up in fear You tend to remember your nightmares and the vivid details Unconscious trying to get our attention about a situation or problem that you have been avoiding. Stress, trauma, fears, insecurities, feelings of inadequacy, health problems, marital issues

Recurring Dreams Frequent repetition of such dreams forces you to pay attention and confront the dream.  Messages that serve to teach us something about ourselves. May occur often Dream is trying desperately to tell you something.  often nightmarish or frightening in their content

Healing Dreams Serve as messages for the dreamer in regards to their health. Dream experts believe that dreams can help us avoid potential health problems and help us to heal when we are ill.  Our bodies are trying to "tell" us that something is not quite right with our bodies even before any physical symptoms show up

Prophetic Dreams Also referred to as precognitive or psychic dreams, are dreams that seemingly foretell the future our dreaming mind is able to piece together bits of information and observation that we normally overlook or that we do not seriously consider. In other words, our unconscious mind knows what is coming before we consciously piece together the same information.  

Epic Dreams also known as Great Dreams or Cosmic Dreams so huge, so compelling, and so vivid that you cannot ignore them Detail of dreams remain for years you feel that you have discovered something profound or amazing about yourself or about the world. It

Sigmund Freud the father of psychoanalysis Freud called dreams “the royal road to the unconscious.” Psychoanalyst- thought dreams were a rich source of information about our unconscious conflicts. Dream analysis was the main part of psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud’s Theories Our actions and thoughts are motivated by our unconscious  In order to live in a civilized society, we tend to hold back or urges and repress our urges and impulses. One way these urges and impulses are released is through our dreams understood the symbolic nature of dreams