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Sigmund Freud Dreaming

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In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud claimed that our dreams are a collection of images from our daily lives and they all have symbolic meanings. There are many theories of dreaming and according to those theories, we dream for 6 reasons: to fulfill our wishes, to remember, to forget, to keep our brains working, to rehearse, and to heal. Among those various reasons, I often dream to heal. In the reading passage, it says that stress neurotransmitters in our brains are much less active while we sleep. Thus, researchers theorized that one purpose of dreaming is to take the edge off painful experiences to allow for psychological healing. It also mentions that reviewing traumatic events in our dreams with less mental stress grant us a clearer perspective
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