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Decoding Dreams: Insights into the Mind and Emotions

Explore the fascinating world of dreams - from common themes to their meanings. Discover how dreams reflect emotions, experiences, and fears, and learn about lucid dreaming and its significance.

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Decoding Dreams: Insights into the Mind and Emotions

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  1. Dreams JoAnn DiNatale

  2. Dream Content • People all over the world dream of mostly the same things. • Personal experiences from the last day or week are frequently incorporated into dreams.

  3. Visuals • Different locations and objects blending • Reflect memory and experiences • Often exaggerated • Blind people • Senses- auditory, touch, smell, taste

  4. Emotions • Most common- anxiety • Others are: • Anger • Fear • Joy/ Happiness • Negative is more common than positive

  5. Sexual themes • 10% of the time and mostly my mid-teens • Some cases can cause orgasm • Sexual wish-feelings

  6. Color vs. Black and White • Small minority • 2008 study at the University of Dundee -black and white television (25% of the time)

  7. Top 10 Common Dreams and Their Meanings • Car Troubles: In or near a car- feeling powerless over something in your life, or that you are heading for a crash (metaphorically). • You may like: You feel you are loosing touch with reality, or it can also occur when you are feeling anxious about making a connecting with another person in real life. • Lost or trapped: meaning that you are trapped in real life, unable to make the right choice

  8. Continued • Missed a Boat or Plane: Feel that you have missed out on an important opportunity in your real life. • Failing a Test: You are feeling tested in some way in your real life. • Being Chased:Someone or something is making you feel threatened. • Bad or Missing Teeth: We are afraid of being found unattractive. • Dream Nudity: Feeling exposed, awkward, or vulnerable.

  9. Continued • Ill or Dying: • You are emotionally hurt or are afraid of becoming hurt • Warning you of an upcoming physical risk to yourself or a loved one • When it is someone else in the dream that dies- you feel part of yourself is dead • It may also mean that you wish that person would go away or that you fear loosing them.

  10. Continued • Falling or Sinking: Feeling insecure, overwhelmed, and ready to give up.

  11. Associated Phenomena • Incorporation of reality: • Environmental sounds • Hearing a phone ring in your dream while it is ringing in reality. • Dreaming of urination while wetting the bed. • The mind can awaken an individual if they are in danger or if trained to respond to a certain sound (ex. Baby crying) • Determining reality with patterns and non responsive visuals

  12. Lucid Dreaming • Occurs during REM • Conscious perception of one’s state while dreaming. • It is a state of control • Controlling aspects doesn’t qualify lucid • Lucid is knowing when dreaming • The events seem real no matter how fantastic • There is a moment of clarity where you realize

  13. The Science to Lucid Dreaming • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSX51xBkos • 00:45 – 01:30 • http://youtu.be/lYSX51xBkos

  14. Quote Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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