In an increasingly complex, unpredictable World, what matters most is not Intelligence Quotient, willpower, or confidence in what we know, but how we deal with what we do not understand. Almost all people have had dreams, yet few can say with confidence what they are, beyond agreeing that they occur during sleep and have some likeness to waking experience. In the embittered controversy, which has seemed irreconcilable, whether the psychic life is asleep at night, or can make the same use of all its faculties as during the day, we have been able to conclude that both sides are right, but that neither is entirely so. In the dream-thoughts we found evidence of a highly complicated intellectual activity, operating with almost all the resources of the psychic apparatus; yet it cannot be denied that these dream-thoughts have originated during the day, and it is indispensable to assume that there is a sleeping state of psychic life. Dream are visions within us, which are remembered by us when we are awake and in the external World. The deflection from the outer World retains its significance for of view, though not the only factor at work, it helps us to make possible the regressive course of the dream-representation. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

The dream is a kind of imagination, and, more, particularly, one which occurs in sleep. A dream reveals something about the sleeper, either about physical condition of about one’s mental stats. Psychic life does not thereby become aimless, for we have seen that upon relinquishment of the voluntary directing ideas, involuntary ones take charge. The dream can be an archaic World of vast emotions and imperfect thoughts. Our dreams bring us back again our earlier and successively developed personalities, our old ways of regarding things, with impulses and modes of reaction which ruled us long ago; the suppressed material becomes the mainspring of the dream. While we are having them, dreams often appear to be as real as waking experience; children have to be told that the object of their terror “was only a dream,” hence not part of the World. However, the World of dreams is our real World whilst we are sleeping, because our attention then lapses from the sensible World. Conversely, when we wake the attention usually lapses from the dream-World and that becomes unreal. I see so manifestly that there are certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep that I am lost in astonishment. #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

The dream relieves the mind, like a safety-valve, all kinds of harmful material are rendered harmless by representation in the dream. We know dreams by the recollections, which usually seems fragmentary and which occurs upon awakening. The entire sum of transforming processes which have changed the latent dream-thought into the manifest dream is called the dream-work. The astonishment which formerly the dream evoked in us is now perceived to be due to the dream-work. The function of the dream-work may be described in the following manner: A structure of thoughts, mostly very complicated, which has been built us during the day and not brought to settlement—a day remnant—clings firmly even during the night to the energy which it had assumed—the underlying center of interest—and thus threats to disturb sleep. This day remnant is transformed into a dream by the dream-work and in this way rendered harmless to sleep. However, in order to make possible its employment by dream-work, this day remnant must be capable of being cast into the form of wish, a condition that is not difficult to fulfill. This wish emanating from the dream-thoughts forms the first step and later on the nucleus of the dream. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

A dream is the reproduction, in the sleeping state of the brain, of images and impressions produced on it in the waking state. Experience gained from analyses—not the theory of the dream—teaches us that with children a fond wish left from the waking state suffices to evoke a dream, which is coherent and senseful, but almost always short, and easily recognizable as a wish fulfillment. In the case of adults the universally valid condition for the dream-creating wish seems to be that the latter should appear foreign to conscious thinking, that is, it should be a repressed wish, or that it should supply consciousness with reinforcement from unknown sources. In my daily life, I have been trying very hard to overcome a particular situation and have really being missing my family and wanting to spend time with them. While, I was out for a walk yesterday, I saw my dad’s mother checking the mail, and I was having a really hard time because of an ongoing situation. The day had started of great, but a situation occurred and it kind of annoyed me intensely, and I had not been sleeping much. I had also been thinking about my clothes and how a lot of them are not the styles I like, but stuff my dad likes. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

When I got back to the house, I went to bed and had a dream that my dad’s mother cooked this big feast and we ate dinner at his house and it was really good. Then later in the dream, he came back to my house with me, and waited outside for me. I had flooded my apartment and there was work being done, but my dad was outside waiting for me so I had to rush out and meet him. When I got outside, my neighbor was talking to my dad, and I overheard her saying to him, “Don’t just think he has everything he needs.” Then we went shopping, at the GAP, and there were all of these shirts with stripes on them (he hates stripes) and I remember feeling like I was not supposed to buy them, so we left the store without making any purchases. Then when I woke up, I felt a little better because it has been a really rough day the night before. So sometimes in dreams, God supplies of with the things we miss in life. I remember feeling loved and warm and really enjoying family time. God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome. The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength. Are you asking God to give you life, liberty, and joy? He cannot, unless you are willing to accept the strain. And once you face the strain, you will immediately get the strength. Overcome your own timidity and take the first step. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

Dreaming is an activity of the sensitive faculty, but of it as being imaginative. We do not dream, but only wake with delusive memories of experiences we have never had. The expression, “I must be dreaming” is normally used in circumstances when I am quite sure that I am not dreaming, to express surprise at some pleasant occurrence, for example, the arrival of a loved one whom thought to be somewhere distant. I am of the reality of my surroundings, something may happen in the future that will elaborate dream material to the region of perception, whereby the dream becomes conscious. The forces participating in the dream-formation may be recognizes as the following: the wish to sleep; the sum of cathexis which still clings to the day remnants after the depression brought about by the state of sleep; the psychic energy of the unconscious wish forming the dream; and the opposing force of the censorship, which exercises its authority in our waking state, and is not entirely abolished during sleep. The task of dream-formation is, above all, to overcome the inhibition of the censorship, and it is just this task that is fulfilled by the displacement of the psychic energy within the material of the dream-thoughts. I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through me and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

Dreams are experiences and illusions and are found to be so by the same criteria that play to illusions in general. The dream comes into its own; in recounting it I am not claiming that these things happened. Because while I am dream there is no possibility of making assertions about my experiences to other people, to describe dreams as illusions makes no sense. As I am writing this, I recall the birthday dinner my dad planned for me, and how someone else sabotaged it by inviting me to lunch. I did not want to be rude and decline the lunch invitation, so I accepted. Nonetheless, the person ended up taking me out of town, then we got stuck in rush hour traffic and did not make it home until 9pm. So my dad was very upset and we did not have dinner. He loved these dreams and the success of his imaginary achievements. They were its best parts of life, its secret truth, its hidden reality. When someone robs you of precious times, I guess dreams are a way to experience things you wish you had been there for. It seems difficult to deny that dreams are experiences, if only because the description is sufficiently vague to cover almost any mental phenomena. We dream not ourselves, but the things within us. Dreamers see the Heavens open every day. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7