Today in class, we watched a TED talk by Dylan Selterman about what our dreams can mean, and how they affect our daily lives. In the TED talk, he discussed how having a dream about jealousy could lead to conflicts with that person the next day, and how having a dream about infidelity could cause a rift in a relationship. In addition, he talked about how when a recent divorcee has a dream about her ex-partner, it eventually makes her happier and get over him. The same goes for smokers trying not to relapse, Selterman also said.
While I do think that dream analysis can be very effective and indeed affect how we think, overall, one may find that dream analysis is very subjective. What if a person remembers only small fragments of a dream, causing it to be interpreted the wrong way? What if someone only focuses on a single aspect of a dream, perhaps missing the entire "plotline" of the dream? Most importantly, people can easily make false connections between dreams and reality, and thus possibly lead to problems and conflicts in their everyday lives. Although Selterman's evidence does make sense, it still seems that it would be very subjective to gather findings from dreams and relate them to a person's life.
I would have to agree with you, people do sometimes make false assumptions about their dreams to reality, very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the points you bring up. I think people can sometimes blow things out of proportion, and with all the speculation that dreams tie into your real "awake" life, I think it's completely possible that some decisions or actions have been taken on the contents of a dream-- perhaps actions that were not warranted.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the points you bring up. I think people can sometimes blow things out of proportion, and with all the speculation that dreams tie into your real "awake" life, I think it's completely possible that some decisions or actions have been taken on the contents of a dream-- perhaps actions that were not warranted.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that sometimes people can interpret dreams the wrong way and also draw unreal connections between dreams and real life. I have had dreams that really scared me because I drew connections between what I did in my dream and real life, when there was no connection there at all. For this reason, I feel like people should be careful about how they interpret their dreams, because they usually do not mean what people think they do, or at least people should not connect what they do in dreams to what they will do in real life.
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