Freud's Dream Reports

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A popular method in understanding dreams is to do an analysis of a dream report. I mentioned earlier that Freud would analyze his patients dreams that drew him to conclusions about the unconscious and conscious thought that are still being applied today. A dream report is the narration a patient makes of a dream during a session (Ruggeri,Mosca & Zei, 2011). It is stated that “Only those elements describing sensorial, cognitive, and emotional experiences directly related to the dream plot are examined, that is what the patient considers as being his or her own oneiric experience” (Ruggeri et.al, pg. 249, 2011). Patients encounter many emotions and images while dreaming but are only able to recall certain experiences which they are able to explain