Sueños y Teorías de Freud: ¿Qué Significan Realmente tus Sueños?

Preguntas de comprensión lectora

1. Can physical circumstances cause dreams? Explain your answer.

Yes, because dreams can be caused by something affecting your body. For example, if your bedclothes become twisted around your neck, you might dream that you are being strangled.

2. What is Freud’s theory about people unable to express their secret wishes?

Freud was the first person to put forward the theory of dreams as “wish-fulfilment”. Everyone has subconscious wishes and fears of which their possessor isn’t consciously aware.

Verdadero o falso

• a) Freud said that dreaming is good for us. T (17-18) Freud took this theory to the point of saying that dreams are essential to our health.

• b) If a person’s friend appears in his dream as an enemy, it may seem that he isn’t a real friend. T (5/6/7) This would not in itself, however, explain why you dreamed you were being strangled by your best friend. In that case, there will be another reason as well as the bedclothes. You may recently have had a quarrel with your friend, for example.

• c) If you dream you are being strangled, that is because your friend is an enemy. F (7-8) In a dream a friend may appear as an enemy, and this may turn out to be true.

• d) James Bond dreamt with lots of glamorous girls. F (13/14/15) A middle-aged man, who never gives a thought to girls during the day, might have a dream in which he was a sort of James Bond, with lots of glamorous girlfriends.

People Dream When They Are Awake

The subject I’m going to talk about is “people dream when they are awake”.

Many times, people think that it is not possible to dream and be awake, but what really does it is our body, unconsciously. One of the advantages of this is that you dream about moments that you want to happen in the future, and you see what happens when it happens. One of the disadvantages is that you dream about things you won’t like that were happening, because you will change your future.

There are many reasons for believing that all of this is true, because there are people who wake up and, simultaneously, are dreaming about it. This causes that when these situations happen to you, people are in the habit of saying, “this is what you dreamed”, because even though you should not have done it while sleeping, you have dreamed it before waking up.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I think that if your mind dreams while you are awake, it is because it is true that inside your body there is something that wants it to happen this way.