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the significance of dreams.
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We will start with the introduction goto psychiatric dream functions,
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cultural universality, dream, interpretation, conclusion and then wrap it up
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with our references.
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So I believe most of us are familiar with the
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Prophet Daniel and his dream interpretation.
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We will go into it at greater length shortly Freud's
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theories or the basis for all subsequent theory.
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By that I mean dream interpretation and dream analysis begins
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and ends with Freud.
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All later theories are either a rejection or connect connected
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Thio. But they all start with Freud.
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My thesis, the significance of dreams, is due to their
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universality across all cultures.
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They all convey the hidden desires of the dreamer psychiatric
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dream function, Freud, An unconscious wish fulfillment for Freud.
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Our dreams were and are unconscious wish so we did
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not be aware of it consciously.
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In our waking life, however, they represented something that we
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wanted or sought to obtain.
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Dreams expressed manifest and latent function.
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Dreams are connected to recent waking thoughts.
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For Freud, it was very clear that the dreams were
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not incoherent, that they clearly reflected some things that may
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have happened even if it was just the thought we
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had before we went to sleep young and compensation young
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focused on re occurring dreams, having a purpose.
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It was not a coincidence that you kept having a
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certain dream.
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For for young there was some greater meaning and some
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greater analysis that needed to be done similar to Freud
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but different.
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Young also believed that dreams were reenact reenactments from the
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past from the day residue meaning if you did a
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certain event like went to the park, for instance, that
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may carry over to your into your dream in a
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certain way, maybe because you'd be around animals or you'd
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be around nature.
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Fritz Pearls focused on inanimate objects for him.
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They represented parts of the self that are ignored but
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visible on dreams.
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So something that we may have sought to hide from
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ourselves would manifest then, in a dream, the dreamer can
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reflect the dream by way of objects, meaning that, uh,
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table and chair takes on a significance other than the
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purpose of sitting at a table.
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It could represent that you want to have you feel,
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ah, lack of connection and seek a group setting or
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a group dynamic cultural universality.
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Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.
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The dreaming The article I read was astounding.
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I had heard talks of the dreaming before, but to
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be fair, I it was a concept totally lost on
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me. The dreaming represents the influence of the passed on
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to the present, the present influence of what is occurring
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in the present, as well as our greater influence on
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the future from the past from the present, for for
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them, the dreaming is that your ancestors and what they
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have bestowed upon you it is the stories you've heard
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in your life, and it represents your will being carried
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over into your descendants.
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Now creativity draws on memory of dreams, meaning that from
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the dreaming you may take a ritual that you have
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dreamt about.
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You may take an art peace and recreated from your
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dream. You may even tell a legend or a folk
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tale that you experienced in a dream and related the
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krg's. The curves are very interesting.
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Like a lot of people, the Kurds believe that their
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dreams are omens and represent divine revelation.
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The author also related the concept of belief in fate
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versus in free will.
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There is a debate with curves, whether the omens and
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divine revelation represent, ah, faded destiny, or they represent a
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warning and a way for you to prevent it because
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of your free will to change your destiny.
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Very interesting.
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The ancient Greeks.
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Now I am obsessed with mythology, personally, Homer's Odyssey and
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Homer's Iliad.
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We're not just things that I had to study in
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school. There were things that I chose to study myself
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with. Homer's odyssey we have the story of Oh, this
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yes, on his return to his wife, Penelope, in the
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story were related to the fact that both Penelope and
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Helen, for which the Trojan War was thought, have visions
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and dreams.
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For Penelope, it is, ah, heard of geese, a flock
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of geese and them being all rambunctious and chaotic, representing
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the suitors as they all try to pursue her, and
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the chaos that ensues because of their actions and their
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presence. For Helen, what she relates is as being a
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child of Zeus.
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She sees the eagle, which is a symbol of her
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father, and what that represents is the gods willingness to
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intervene on Odysseus quest to return.
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So let alone that in the Elliot, it is related
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that the gods actually even took to the battlefields to
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support their champions on the Greeks or on the Trojan
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side. Now Odessa's himself is having to get tend with
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Poseidon, for instance, and his ill fated retribution, of all
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things, Odysseus represents dream interpretation.
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As I said, I feel like most of us are
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familiar with the Prophet Daniel.
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We may also be familiar with his possible descendant in
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the sense of literary descendent, and very, very actually, uh,
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maybe a possible blood descendant, the patriarch Joseph.
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But going back to Daniel Daniel was given the ability
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to interpret dreams by his God.
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Nebuchadnezzar was having a recurring dream that he could not
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understand. He was not sure of its meaning.
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Now. He had people in his court that were magicians
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and Wiseman and soothsayers.
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However, any analysis that they were providing was lacking.
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Now it may or may not be that it was
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correct, but it was not what he wanted to hear.
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It was not what he felt.
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There was more to this story.
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Once Daniel related his interpretation, King Nebuchadnezzar realized that because
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it was from his God, that it was also divine
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revelation. So he took he took it more seriously.
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Uh, it was not necessarily good for King Nebuchadnezzar because
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ultimately he was no longer king and he had been
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ousted by Darius.
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Now Daniel also foretold of Darius and his rise.
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And there's a reason why he is still referred to
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commonly as Darius the Great because he was considered great
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as a Persian for his own conquest and his own
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right. However, even people that he ruled over, such as
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the Hebrews around Daniel mhm, they had no ill will
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towards him.
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This is interesting because we also see dream interpretation where
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it is freely given, as it is for Darius.
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And any analysis has given readily where we see it
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previously, with Nebuchadnezzar as being coerced and not not so
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freely given, but being made to be given Freudian analysis.
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This relates to the dream interpretation for Freud, trauma or
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any aggression was it was able to influence content.
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So had we gone through some traumatic experience that could
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be reflected in our dreams, just so as if we
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held out any aggression for towards anyone or towards anything
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that can also affect content.
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This is important because trauma is not obviously a good
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thing and could relate to why we would have horrendous
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dreams or nightmares.
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Aggression. We may have violent, violent dreams that we do
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not necessarily care for, where violence is committed against us
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or where we commit violent deeds.
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And for him, it was all based on it.
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Influenced that may or may not have gone detected.
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Freud also believe that dreams could be of supernatural origin.
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He didn't go so far as to say divine, but
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he recognized that there was something otherworldly to them, that
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there was some certain thing that he couldn't quite put
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into words that related to dreams.
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As we have seen previously and previous slides, many people
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and past, present and future continue to feel that way
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that there's something otherworldly and other that we go to
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another world, so to speak with our dreams.
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On the left, I have put Freudian dream symbols.
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We will go over a few of them as I
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find them.
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These ones in particular, very telling parents appear in dreams
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is kings and queens.
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This is the natural assumption, as parents represent the authority
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figure to us.
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Um, that doesn't necessarily mean they're good or bad.
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just that they represent authority as kings and queens and
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other monarchs would.
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Another one that I found very interesting was death.
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Death is replaced in dreams by taking a journey.
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This makes sense as we often interpret death as another
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step in our evolution, so to speak, in our consciousness.
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And we go to another world, we go to heaven.
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We we go to whatever other worldly place our religion
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dictates. And it is natural to assume that it would
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be somewhat of a journey going through the tunnel of
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the white light tunnel, as they say, Anthropological perspective.
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For this, we talk about self so actual experience of
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self meaning.
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What actually constitutes who we are based on our experience,
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our trials and tribulations, that's different, and it can be
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idealized. That's different, though, than cultural concepts of self cultural
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concepts of self is dictated by whatever culture we find
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ourselves in for us that as Americans, that is an
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individualistic culture, meaning that the power of the individual is
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emphasized over the power of the group.
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Now, if we were from a different culture such as
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Chinese, for instance, that is a collectivist culture.
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Now that doesn't mean that the individual is insignificant or
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unimportant. However, the emphasis is different.
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We focus more on groups themselves and what we contribute
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to our piers, what we contribute to our family, what
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we can contribute to our country so that all is
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in at interplay.
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We also need to talk about local dream theories, their
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dream theories to be had across all the board across
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all the world, across all the cultures, past, present and
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even possibly future.
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As we keep relating, it is important that we seek
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to see the similarities and the differences that they all
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represent as we have seen.
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Although they're not exactly the same, there are quite a
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few astounding similarities.
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In conclusion, humans dream for a reason.
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Our culture provides the basis of our interpretation dreams, although
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they may appear nonsensical or anything but and all the
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cultures that we represent by our ethnicity and racial identities
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help us in providing our interpretation just as they would
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psychiatrist Freud applied psychiatric principles, toe world cultures which expressed
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similar ideas about dreams.
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Dream interpretation is part of the past president.
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Future as we have seen, it goes back to ancient
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times. It is part of our present and our current
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modern times, and it will be part of the future.
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Freudian analysis is colored by cultural associations when we attempt
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to interpret our dreams.
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As we begin dream analysis, we see that it is
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colored by what cultures we have been brought up in.
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And finally, our references our first one by glass skin
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was, Ah, wonderful observation.
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Learning about the dreaming.