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A question for everyone, do you usually love to dream? What have you ever dreamed about? Why do people dream? Is dream interpretation reliable? Hey, we're going to talk to you about that today.
When it comes to dreaming, I think everyone has a lot to say. Whether it's Chinese or foreigners. Everyone dreams (of course, there are exceptions, some people really don't dream in their lives, I have encountered), almost all people want to analyze the production of dreams and the meaning of dreams, so a lot of theoretical research has been produced, but the analysis of dreams in the West and the understanding of the East are not the same. Taking Chinese as an example, we pay more attention to understanding and interpreting the foreshadowing of dreams we have had; Westerners are not, who are more inclined to study and explain the causes of dreams and mental illness or mental problems. The most famous in China is the "Zhou Gong Interpretation dream" that is well known to men, women and children.
To learn more about the causes, effects, and analysis of dreams, we need to stand on the different perspectives of Eastern and Western cultures, so that we may get clearer conclusions.
First, let's talk about the analysis of dreams by Western social scholars:
For thousands of years, the "dream" thing has also deeply influenced the Western people's view of the universe and the concept of the soul, and like our Chinese nation, they have also been committed to the exploration of dreams, but the overall effect is not great.
The ancient Romans were convinced that dreams were related to the supernatural phenomena they believed in and could convey God's will. For Aristotle, dreams belonged to psychology, not oracles (or god-given things). That is to say, dreams are not a reaction to supernatural phenomena, but follow the laws of the human spirit. These are just two representative views of the Western world, but it reflects the Western study of dreams that is more inclined to the spiritual world.
Many philosophers are more accustomed to summarizing dreams as a state of consciousness possession, believing that dreams are actually a kind of mental structure rich in meaning, expounding the causes of various strange and strange dreams, and deducing the nature of psychological energy, which is born from the intermingling of this psychological energy.
Looking back at Western history, we find that because of their values, there have always been two diametrically opposed views on the interpretation of dreams regardless of the period: one view is that dreams are real and valuable, and can guide the dreamer's life and foreshadow the future; the other view is that the dream is empty and worthless, and will always delay life and even lead the dreamer to destruction.
They divide dreams into two categories:
One type of dream is affected only by the present or the past and has no significant connection to the future, including insomnia and hallucinations, such as nightmares.
Another type of dream determines the future, including:
(1) Receiving prophecies in dreams (oracles, God's guidance, hints, etc.);
(2) Encountering future events (dreams, such as fluttering);
(3) Symbolic dreams that need to be parsed (such as dream signs).
Many thinkers have never stopped discussing the prophetic power of dreams. Scientific thinkers strongly insisted on abandoning feudal superstitions, and psychological theories were insufficient to explain these phenomena because of the material collected about dreams. Therefore, some psychologists believe that dreams are a series of pathological psychological phenomena, and dreams themselves do not have practical significance. Psychologists believe that solving the mystery of the origin of dreams can understand phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, delusions and other psychological diseases, so as to provide treatment solutions (this I think is very meaningful, you now go to the psychiatric department of the hospital to see, more and more people with mental illness, depression is more typical).
Moving forward, you will find a very interesting phenomenon: whether it is Chinese or the evaluation of dreams by ancient Western philosophers, to a large extent, it depends on the prevalence of divination (such as our Zhou Yi and Five Elements Theory) at that time.
What do we often say about a word called? Yes, it's a dream? You see, we are always used to connect dreams and thoughts together, isn't this in line with "thinking about things day and dreams at night"?
The material that makes up dreams is more or less derived from real-world experiences that are reproduced or remembered in the dream. Many dreams may not be reasonably explained for a long time, because the memories in dreams are often bizarre.
Everyone who dreams will feel such a common phenomenon: the pictures or information obtained unconsciously recorded by people in the waking consciousness will be reproduced in the dream; during the deep sleep period, the dream will reproduce the memories of the distant past (for example, you will dream about some of the past of your life when you were a child), and the dreams made at dawn are the reproduction of recent memories. Many times the dream will gradually fade after waking up in the morning, and if you want to recall the dream, you will find that the dream is far more than the memory, the memory is not complete, you will realize that you are dreaming, but you do not know what you dreamed. Psychologists believe that there is a significant link between dream formation and more complex psychopathology. Since a person is asleep while dreaming, dreams are defined as mentally conscious activities that arise in a state of deep sleep. Some undiscovered early lesions in daily life can manifest themselves in dreams. If it is explained in a scientific category, it will cause further human beings to think: does the interpretation of dreams belong to the category of psychology or physiology? So far, no theory has really produced authoritative or solid research. It can only be said that dreams are a very special phenomenon in the spiritual life of human beings.
Second, let's talk about Chinese understanding and interpretation of dreams:
We Chinese deeply influenced by "Confucianism, Taoism, Ink, and Law" and foreign Buddhism, which played a leading role in the traditional thinking of Chinese, and we are accustomed to looking at problems in combination with traditional culture. Dream culture is an indispensable and important part of ancient Chinese culture, here we have to mention the Chinese sages borrowed Zhou Gong (Zhou Gong is Zhou Gongdan) wrote the "Zhou Gong Dream Interpretation", although it is difficult to climb the elegant hall, but it is widely circulated in the folk, is the folk dream interpretation book.
Everyone must have heard the beautiful story of "Nanke Yimeng", right? It is said that in ancient times, a person named Chun Yu Tong had a dream, in which he became the lord of the Great Locust An guo Nanke, lived a luxurious and luxurious life, and woke up to find that it was a false dream. The so-called big locust Anguo is actually the ant nest under the big locust tree on the south side of his family's house, which later became "Nanke Yimeng". Sometimes dreams are so disorganized and ethereal.
Chinese medicine research believes that about one-tenth of a person's life is spent in dreams, it can be seen that dreams are a part of people's lives, and he also has a certain impact on people's physical and mental health, but dreams are always an unsolved mystery.
The Greek philosopher Plato said that "good people dream, bad people do evil", but China's ancestors believed that "even people have no dreams". What do you mean? The most human, the saint also means that the saint has no delusions, so he does not dream.
We, from the ancient sages to the people of Li, like to analyze dreams in life, the psychological causes of dreams, the factors that form dreams, the ways in which dreams arise, the causes of nightmares, the symbolic meaning of dreams, sleepwalking, dream talks, dreams, dreams and subconscious, and the omens of dreams for the future. Many people often interpret dreams in the form of direct solution, reverse solution, and other solutions, which also includes the Dao-broken dream interpretation method, the ejection method, the peeling dream interpretation method, and the hybrid dream interpretation method. As far as direct interpretation is concerned, such as dreaming about this and dreaming about that, it involves all aspects of life, and it seems that an explanation can be given in "Zhou Gong Dream Interpretation".
Regarding the specific interpretation of dreams, I can't be too specific or give some cases to explain specifically, that involves promoting feudal superstition, so how much I write and say, I can't send it out.
Third, let's talk about what kind of attitude we should maintain towards dreaming
Many years ago, Zhao Benshan performed a very interesting sketch about dreaming (if you are interested, you can search for it), telling the story of winning the jackpot in a dream and unscrupulously agreeing to lend money to the village chief, and finally owing a bunch of debts, which is quite ironic.
We Chinese attach great importance to dreaming. Dreams can sometimes give people ideals, sometimes they can give people happiness. Some people say that dreams are revelations from the depths of life, and there may be some truth to it. People's personality and emotions are formed by your experience and experience, and often dreams can better reflect the inner contradictions and the subconscious of pursuing desire, which should be in line with Chinese the philosophical view of the unity of heaven and man and the induction of heaven and earth. The explanation of dreams is not only one answer, what is important is to adapt from person to person. Dream interpretation requires judging whether the interpretation of the dream is applicable to the dreamer, not to believe too much in the interpretation of the dream and mislead others, and to face it rationally.
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