According to Psychoanalysis, all dreams represent wish fulfillment.

In an average night's sleep, the average person will dream five to thirty minutes, three to five times. This roughly equals about 100 minutes of dream time. Dreaming is associated with the R.E.M. (rapid-eye-movement) stage of sleep.

Dream Content, Symbolism, and Interpretation

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud believed that dreams revealed unconscious and repressed urges and their symbolism could be used in psychoanalysis to understand and release them. According to Freud, these urges are repressed to an unconscious level because the dreamer considers them to be personally and / or socially unacceptable. He first published his theory on dreams in his first major book, The Interpretation of Dreams¹

He believed that dream content represented repressed sexual and aggressive drives. These formed the content of dreams in the following three ways:

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Carl Jung

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Remembering Dreams

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud believed there were two kinds of dream content:

• Manifest Content: The parts of the dreams we usually remember.
• Latent Content: The true, unconscious meaning underlying the dream.

Lucid Dreaming

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Books on Dreams

• The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900, Sigmund Freud

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