Western dream interpretation ideas are represented by "The Interpretation of Dreams", which is the work of the psychologist Freud. As for Eastern Dream Interpretation, I read Teacher Xu’s Dream Interpretation of the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic, and this one is in Teacher Xu’s book “Dreams and Health”. Combining these two books, as well as my own understanding of psychoanalytic thought, as well as my own experience of dreaming and dream interpretation, I wrote the following article.
Western dream interpretation starts from psychological science and tracks the subconscious mind, which includes personal and collective subconscious minds. The subconscious here shows more personal desires, needs or emotions, and it is also mentioned that physiological reactions affect the content of the dream, but the theme of the dream remains unchanged.
After reading Freud's views and many of his cases, although there are many professional terms in the book, some of which are difficult to digest, and even require repeated comparison with the context, it always gives people a sense of convincing. Because there are hypotheses and arguments, it’s like writing a paper. As a reader, I will also bring in my own experience, and I will find that the writing is reasonable and very scientific and rigorous, because when I read it, I will often think that this is also the case in my dreams, and my dreams are also produced in this way. ...
The author’s words are all very scientific. For example: dreams have a polishing effect, dreams have a checking effect, and they talk about a lot of forces. I always feel that I can see those forces in my mind. The interaction and influence make the invisible visible.
Of course, if you can fully grasp Freud's dream interpretation ability just by reading one book, that would be looking too high on yourself. The confusing part of
's book is that it pays more attention to psychological dream interpretation, and the body is ignored. In addition, it is difficult to have specific rules for how dream thoughts are derived. Most of them are based on dream interpretation. The dreamer's intuition and experience are used to discover the dreamer's desires and needs "uniquely" (because this discovery is too unique or even unique.). There are also details in the content of dreams. Influenced by Western alphabetic culture and history, I always feel that they are very different from the content and details of Chinese people. For example: when analyzing typical dream scenes of flying, falling, and dizziness, we will start more from children's activities, which will be related to sex. This typical scene is not understood this way at all in the Huangdi Nei Jing's Dream Interpretation. .
Regarding the differences reflected here, I asked two groups of people, one is a group working on traditional Chinese culture, and the other is a group of consultants. Their answers were very different.
My question is this: Why can't our country produce original theories in psychological science?
The representative of the consultant group used a picture to answer:
This answer starts from the origin of psychology. This is a better statement. I personally like the voice of the representative of the traditional culture group. They believe that in Chinese culture, there is no habit of treating body and mind separately. They are originally a whole, so how can they treat each other in separate ways?
This point of view can be concretely reflected in dream interpretation.
"Dreams and Health" written by Teacher Xu is not only about understanding dreams, but also about understanding body and mind.
For example: When someone dreams that he is flying, it is related to the body's real fire, which means that the body is angry, and it is more reflected in the liver and heart fire, and they have direct corresponding emotions.
The heart governs happiness and things that make you happy. The person who dreams of this dream is in a happy mood, even overly happy. The dream at night sends a signal to remind people during the day that they need to pay attention to the balance of yin and yang.
The Liver governs anger. The body signals revealed in dreams at night are that the Liver is angry. Are you too angry or holding back during the day? During the day, the yang energy is too strong and cannot convey signals. When you fall asleep, dreams, as the yin side, can convey signals. This signal is to tell yourself during the day that when you are angry, you don't have to just hold it in and everything will pass. In fact, you haven't passed this test yet. Doing so will hurt your body and liver. As a result, many people with liver qi stagnation and depression will Shown by this.
When you know the above derivation and meet a client who tells a dream, you at least know what specific emotions he has and what behaviors these emotions represent.
It's okay to hurt the liver qi. If you express your anger in a reasonable way, people will feel much more relaxed and their thoughts will be positive and open. But if the anger is directly hurt, it will take longer to heal.
I have objections to the dream interpretation written by Teacher Xu based on the contents of the Huangdi Neijing. How are these physical and mental unions obtained? There are only conclusions, no proof process. Of course,
uses this conclusion to participate in clinical practice, and the body and mind are in harmony, but this person's dreams can change, which at least shows that the clinical approach is correct.
Because there is no way to prove it, it always seems unscientific and a bit illegal to accept. I always feel that Chinese dream interpretation is that simple?
Because I have been taking Mr. Xu’s class on the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic, I also learned from it that many of the Tao in China are obtained through the induction of heaven and man. The methodology used is: take things far away, make progress in all bodies (cultivate yourself, achieve (Unity of man and nature), to understand people and things, that is, to draw analogies. For example: walnut meat looks like a brain, so it nourishes the brain. Later, science specifically proved that it is really beneficial to the brain's absorption and changes in the brain. Gotta be smart.
Based on the above, from Freud’s dream interpretation and the dream interpretation from the Huangdi Neijing, have you become more aware of the body and mind?
Take me as an example. For a period of time, I dreamed of myself flying two or three times in a week. The feeling in the dream was quite good, but a sudden fall made me wake up. For a week after that, I had a blood blister on the corner of my mouth. I knew that I was a little angry and my view of one thing was too optimistic. For this reason, on the one hand, you should adjust your diet, especially not eating spicy food, but eating some bitter food. Fried flour is bitter, and baked steamed buns are browned. Later, the blood blisters at the corners of my mouth disappeared. Of course, I calmly analyzed the consultation opportunity I encountered.
My example is just one of my superficial understandings. I feel that it is reasonable and empirical. Maybe my analysis is only reasonable and reasonable. I still need to comprehensively analyze the complete dream and what happened in reality. This is also It is necessary to better combine Eastern and Western dream interpretations with
dreams and self-awareness (8). This will be the last article. I will take my dream on May 16 as an example and combine Eastern and Western dream interpretation methods to achieve another goal. A deep self-awareness.
