Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud spent a good part of his life
interpreting and analyzing his patients’ dreams based on evidence-backed
theory. He often found connections with
symbols recurring in dreams and our psyche, which he wrote about in his book
“The Interpretation of Dreams.” This blog is not that book.
Freud suggested that dreams are the brain’s way of
fulfilling wishes deep within our mind or our Id, which the Ego and Superego
deny us of. Freud believed that our
unconscious mind does a good job of disguising the real meaning of our dreams
by creating abstract representations of what our mind is subconsciously wishing
for.
I’m going to attempt to put the clues together of my dreams,
my friends’ dreams, and anyone who is brave enough to tell me the (sometimes)
messed up happenings of the movies in their heads that play while we are
asleep.
What are my qualifications? None really. Yeah I’ve taken a couple of psych classes in
high school and a few here at the University of Missouri, but my goal is to use
my excellent listening skills, imagination, life experience, and some of
Freud’s theories to explain what’s going on in our oh so complicated little
masses of mush that sit at the top of our bodies.
I’ll start off by saying I share a room with 3 other girls
(a small room, very small). It is
difficult to fall asleep when we’re all on different schedules, so usually we
all try to find a common time to turn off the lights, get in bed, all that
business. Typically, if one of us is up,
we’re all up. This has its ups and downs
like you can imagine. One of the best
parts about this is when one of us sleep talks and we get to listen in on the
nonsense.
One of my roommates has what we call a “wee problem.” She
wets the bed if she gets drunk enough.
Now, she hasn’t always done this, but it started within the past couple
months. What I find interesting is the
first night that this happened she says she remembers part of a dream she was
having.
She told me that in her dream she was walking to class and
people were staring at her. Of course in
her dream she wondered while people were staring at her, she said she
remembered the sky was yellow, but because it’s a dream you tend not to question
much. As she kept walking to class
people began to point and laugh at her.
Eventually a force told her to look down where she say a damp diaper sagging
off her body. This dream is pretty
self-explanatory and straightforward.
So maybe what you should take away from this blog is don’t
drink so much.
That’s my insight into this dream.