Great keynote. So many great scientific evidence.

Dreams teach us about our unconscious conflicts and they give us many clues to self understanding. Most humans lack the intelligence and curiosity to understand dreams. I often wonder why I don't have nightmares, yet I've been aware of dreams my entire life. I began studying my dreams in my mid 20s. Now I'm in my 70's. My dreams foretold the deaths of my two, much older, sisters and one nephew by approx 10 days each, although they died at different times. Believe me or not. Dreams are longer and profuse earlier in life. Now, my dreams are brief, yet reveal images of current psychological work that is still important to ongoing self understanding. Dreams are not wish fulfillment. They represent our inner realities - self understanding requires communication with our unconscious. Freud realized that humans have a part of our mind that are not pleasant to explore because this is where those verboten wishes - to which Freud referred - are stored. People have no idea how to understand their inner beings. Without reaching/unraveling their dreams - they never will. I understand my life and the outer world, as well. My outer world knowledge is of the reality, not the propaganda. My inner world understanding is not about a fantasy life that most have; it's about how I became an adult woman. When I die, I will have no regrets as to how I lived my life.

Freud's contention that dreams are simply wish fulfilment is deeply unsatisfactory. I believe the unconscious brain will try to send a message in story form about what concerns it about our current life. Our job is to decode the story to understand the meaning.

@kirstinstrand6292

5 ай бұрын

Yes, but more important is the unconscious mind. This is also where wish fulfillment comes into play. All those repressed feelings that occur during adolescence...

@berlinesquelove1360

4 ай бұрын

But, then what about the recurring traumatic dreams of those with PTSD? Where is a wish being fulfilled there? Why would someone's unconscious produce something so unintuitive and painful unless there is a underlying form beyond wish fulfillment? Isn't that why Freud eventually contradicted his use of wish fulfillment when he introduced the death drive?

@bellakrinkle9381

Ай бұрын

I don't know. I was C-PTSD. My life was miserable, yet I had no traumatic dreams. Perhaps if war created my PTSD, I'd have had traumatic dreams. @@berlinesquelove1360

I am a firm believer that our dreams are our minds way of making the majority of associations with our past experiences for use in future predictive functions. Going off the idea that our mind is a predictive engine, which is updated by our perceptions. Perhaps, the evolution of our cortex is in facilitation of the ability to unconsciously categorize our past experiences in ever increasing general categories for easier association when faced with a new situation. Therefore allowing our past experiences to more easily help us survive in situations that we have not encountered yet. ...also, isn't the section of the brain that is mostly stimulated during the SWS-REM, the transcortical pathway? From my limited understanding, isn't that located between and at the base, of the cortex, bridging both hemispheres of the cortex and sitting just above the brain stem? Seems pretty convenient because, as I understand it, the left and right hemispheres of the cortex are the logical and creative hemispheres, and the brain stem is mostly primitive functions... very generally speaking. All the parts that need to be categorized neatly for easy access in future unknown situations to help our survival. As I said, I don't really know much about this, so I would be very interested in hearing others thoughts about it.

@KJFILM19936

8 күн бұрын

Wow. Well said.

It is of no surprise that Freud was right.

So, dreams protect sleep. But then why do we have nightmares? Because they often do the opposite of forcing us awake. (In a rather unpleasant manor!)

@AlecMcGail

8 ай бұрын

We have nightmares to wake us up, exactly. I’ve long had this theory based on my own experiences that if the body thinks you are suffocating, or there is something in your environment you need to be afraid of, it conjures a nightmare to wake you up. On the other hand, it’s possibly a non-functional side effect of our capacity to dream

@kirstinstrand6292

5 ай бұрын

I do not believe that dreams protect sleep. If Freud believed such malarkey, it only proves that he did not know everything about dreams, sleep, consciousness, and unconsciousness.

@abrahamrod2564

2 ай бұрын

​@kirstinstrand6292 you can't just prove someone wrong without providing counter arguments, so I'll just assume you're as clueless as anyone else about the subject.

Freudian theory must be updated. Not all of his work is accurate, some of it is misunderstood. Freudian theory is very relevant today and is assessable, unlike Carl Jung's theories which appeals to more Americans because of their views on Christianity, as far as my thinking goes. I could not have unraveled my dysfunctional childhood without Freudian Psychoanalysis.

@baileywolfs9260

19 күн бұрын

There is no need to update Freudian theory. There were already 80 years of psychoanalytic progress after Freud, and this continues to date.

Why are we still talking about the pseudoscience of Freud??

@lewreed1871

9 ай бұрын

Why don't you watch the video BEFORE commenting?

@miles-thesleeper-monroe8466

9 ай бұрын

Cue the WEF dig at Freud...

@MacMacPherson

9 ай бұрын

Why are you commenting on a video without watching it??

@whizzer2944

9 ай бұрын

Why do.we still talk about Einstein , because he was right so why not

@kirstinstrand6292

5 ай бұрын

Because not everyone is smart enough to educate themselves so that they understand truth from pseudoscience.

Mark solms just knows about affect nothing more!

@fk9277

9 ай бұрын

Even if this were the case, what is the point you are trying to make?

@melomateus_m.r

6 ай бұрын

No affect in dreams apparently.

@bellakrinkle9381

Ай бұрын

🤣😂😅 you know nothing about his research or about the 20 years he spent translating Freud's notebooks from German into English. Nothing more?