Several kinds of conjectures about dreams
- Dreams are a kind of prediction of good fortune
In ancient times, there was a "Zhou Gong Interpretation of Dreams" that made various types of predictions of good fortune and bad fortune for dreams. However, "Dream Interpretation of Zhou Gong" was not written by Zhou Gong himself, but was written by later generations in the name of Zhou Gong. Then why do you need to borrow the name of Zhou Gong instead of other people’s names?
Zhou Gong is the fourth son of Zhou Gongdan , Zhou Wenwang , Ji Chang, the younger brother of Zhou Wuwang , and is also the founder of Confucian . He is highly praised by Confucius and respected by Confucianism as a saint. King Wen of Zhou made divination and deduced the acquired Bagua of King Wen , carefully annotating the Bagua and lines and their changes, forming the book " Zhouyi ". His son, Duke Zhou, probably also learned some of King Wen's divination skills. After all, in Shang and Zhou more than 3,000 years ago, divination is a mysterious field. Therefore, later generations probably wanted to use the status and reputation of Zhou Gong to make the book have some authority in order to sell more.
Another saying is that the Analects of Confucius recorded a sentence from Confucius. It is said that Confucius returned to his hometown in his later years and was studying one day. He suddenly sighed to the sky: "It's so great that I'm declining! I've never dreamed of Duke Zhou again." What does it mean? Confucius said that he was old and hadn't dreamed of Duke Zhou for a long time. The true meaning is that Confucius felt that he could not restore the Zhou rituals in his lifetime. This is probably the only place where Zhou Gong can connect with dreams.
In fact, "Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation" is a dictionary about the meaning of various dreams, which is far from the meaning of the word "Dream Interpretation". This dictionary predicts people's wealth, poverty, misfortune, misfortune, birth, old age, sickness, death, etc. based on different dream scenes. This is similar to the views of most people in ancient China on dreams. For example, the clouds clear and the sun rises and the bad things are dispersed, which is quite obvious. The direction of the moonlight; for example, the death of people with strong winds and heavy rains and the timely and good luck under the snow are all predictions of the good and bad luck of dreams. It can be imagined that every dreamer will look up the meaning of the dream like a dictionary after dreaming. When you find good luck, you will be happy and lie down and wait for good luck to come. When you find bad luck, you will be in panic all day long, afraid that bad luck will come. This is probably not a phenomenon that dream interpreters are willing to see.
- Dream is the fulfillment of wishes
Freud, the founder of the great psychoanalytic school, interpreted dreams with science for the first time, published the book "Analysis of Dreams", and put forward the idea that dreams are the fulfillment of wishes. What does this mean? For example, I was secretly in love with a boy. Every day I saw his handsome face, I dared to be extremely happy, but he already had a girlfriend, and his girlfriend was very beautiful and had very good family conditions. She is a typical white and rich beauty. Compared to the girl, I feel ashamed of myself and feel very inferior inside. I feel that I will never be with this boy. But one night I dreamed that I was not only in love with this boy, but also got married and had children, living together happily. Then this dream is the fulfillment of a wish.
Let’s briefly understand what the core basis for Mr. Lao Fu proposed this theory.
First of all, Lao Fu divided individual personality into three structures: "self", "self" and "superego".Among them, " I " is like an unsatisfied person, who only knows how to satisfy his most primitive instincts. All behaviors are based on pleasure first, and happiness is good. For example, if you eat when you are hungry, you can play games day and night. When you want to sleep, you fall to the ground and fall asleep. When you want to have sex, you find someone to have sex anywhere, ignoring any social rules and ethics and morals ;
"superego" is similar to the personality "police", which is the moral part of the personality structure, Various social norms and ethics as the norms govern the "self" and have a strong inhibitory effect on the "self". At the same time, the "principle of supreme goodness" guides the "self" once I am What is going to do beyond the norm, "Superego" will jump out and show the police badge to tell you that you can't do it, and you will be severely punished if you do it. If you do it, "Superego" is like Wukong in Tang Monk's The ears are buzzing, constantly telling you that you are wrong, wrong, and wrong;
"self" is a personality structure between the "self" and the "superego", which is the middle layer, and most people live in the world The social aspects presented above are mainly "self", which are both suppressed by the "superego" and are also encouraged by the "self" to pursue the satisfaction of desires. They mainly follow the principles of reality and seek in a reasonable way. to meet the requirements of "self". I will neither indiscriminately harm social order nor indestructible as a moral model and lose my creativity.
After understanding Lao Fu's theory of personality structure, let's take a look at Lao Fu's theoretical basis for Lao Fu's proposal that dreams are the realization of wishes.
When we are awake during the day, we live in a socialized world with our "self". Because of the laws and regulations, social norms, and moral ethics, we can only be controlled by the "superele" and our instincts, even if we like them no matter what we encounter. The boy cannot rush up and ask for marriage and having children, but needs to plan for a long time and chase him step by step. During this period, although the "superego" suppressed the reproductive instinct of the "id", this power is really powerful. If it is suppressed, it is easy to develop psychological diseases. In order to ensure mental health and physical health (I won’t go into details about why mental health is related to physical health. Interested readers can search for the meaning of "somaticization"), our "primitive people" help us in our dreams To achieve our wish, because the things in our dreams do not appear in the real society, this will neither have any bad impact on reality nor will there be psychological problems due to the suppression of instinct.
and a lot of dreams have confirmed this. But if all dreams are interpreted as the fulfillment of a wish, there will be too many dreams that cannot be explained. For example, this dream,
I dreamed that I had a baby, but it was not born by myself, but someone could send it to my door. I opened the door and hugged the baby, but it seemed that a cat wanted to catch the baby. I hurriedly stopped it, and at the same time I felt that I should take good care of the baby and be more careful.
If this dream is solved by the achievement of a wish, it will be unreasonable in any case. If I want to have a child, why didn’t the child give it to me by myself, but by someone else? If what I want is to have an adopted child, then why did the sober I never think about adopting a child during the day? And I didn't even have this related idea for a moment.
And this dream, I explained it like this: a baby symbolizes a newly born career, but this career is not something I started from 0 myself, but it is given to me after other people start this career. Of course, I cherish this career very much, fearing that it will be a mistake in my career, so I take care of this career very carefully. This coincides with my experience during that period.
