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She states,
"when people think about analyzing their dreams, they usually think of psychics with crystal balls, dream dictionaries, or lying on a couch while a Freud-like psychologist tells them precisely what their dreams connote…"
Indeed, many people claim to know that dreams are important, and some may even try and understand dreams, but they are all too soon forgotten in favor of the worries of the day. However, dreams analysis, as emphasized by Tartakovsky, is not only beneficial, but also useful in dealing with daily problems. As seen from the studies above, dreams are a gateway to understanding oneself, and there is only benefit to be gained from performing a dreams analysis of one's dreams.
In psychological terms, "dreaming is non-essential when it comes to survival as a body but is essential with regard to our development and evolution as metaphysical beings," states Dr. Sumber, who has studied global dream mythology at Harvard University and Jungian dream interpretation at the Jung Institute in Zurich, according to Tartakovsky. This doctor continues by stating that "dreaming is the communication between our conscious mind and our unconscious mind, helping people create wholeness & #8230;Dreams are the bridge that allows movement back and forth between what we think we know and what we really know."
The next section of this article thus focuses on finding out just what one could learn from dreams. First, it is important to note that in order to conduct dreams analysis, one must not necessarily follow a rigid structure. Since every person is unique, one must utilize his or her own experience in order to create an analysis for one's own dreams. However, one common thing stressed by all psychologists is that notes are very important, and all stress having a place in which to record one's dreams. With these notes, one can identify both recurring emotions and characters. In this way, eventually, one can begin to understand his or her dreams from a very real perspective.
Conclusion
The topic of this analysis was to see why dreams occur and whether they are important to one's understanding of one's world and of self. The paper thus meant to show how dreaming occurred and why dreams are important, as well as what specific jobs they can fulfill. Furthermore, it has also been shown that dreams can only help, not hinder, and individual and his or her understanding of self. In fact, this has been proven through both scientific and practical stories, all of which have proven that increased creativity and memory abilities are other gains gotten from being able to dream and understanding this phenomenon.
Lehrer, Jonah. "Why We Need to Dream." Opinionator. New York Times, 19 Mar. 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2012.