I am Weicheng Chaoyu, express my attitude towards life in words .
Dreams can cause self-intoxication and self-deception .
What is the dream composed of?
Freud once said: Dreams are mainly composed of metaphors and symbols, which people in ancient times have long discovered. As a psychologist said: "In our dreams, we are all poets."
However, why not use simple and neat sentences to express dreams in metaphors and symbols? This is because if we speak frankly about our wishes without metaphors and symbols, we cannot avoid common sense.
Metaphor and symbol can be absurd. They can connect different meanings to each other and express two different things at the same time, but there are very likely false elements in it.
We will also draw ridiculous conclusions from dreams, they can trigger our feelings, and we often find it in our daily lives. When we want to correct others, we will say, "Don't be childish!" We will say, "Why are you crying? Like a woman?"
When we make metaphors, we will mix things that are irrelevant and things that can only appeal to feelings into our thoughts. For example, when a burly man gets angry with a small man, he may say, "He is a caterpillar and is only worthy of crawling underground." He uses this metaphor to easily express his anger.
metaphors are a very wonderful language tool, but when we use them, we can create a situation of self-deception. When Homera describes Greek 's army traversing on the battlefield like a lion, it creates an exaggerated scene for us.
We believe he is unwilling to state the facts correctly: the fact is that those tired and dirty soldiers are actually descending on the battlefield, and he hopes that we imagine them as lions.
We know that they are not real lions, but if these poets describe how they smell like cows and sweat like rain, how they stop to revitalize morale or avoid danger, how their armor is worn out, we will not be so touched.
uses metaphors for beauty, imagination, and fantasy. However, we must remind everyone that for a person who has meaning in life, the use of metaphors and symbols is always a dangerous thing.
A student faces an upcoming exam. It is very simple to solve this problem. He just needs to muster up the courage and rely on common sense and do his best.
But if his lifestyle makes him escape at the last minute, he may dream of being on the battlefield. He expressed this simple problem in a rather complicated metaphor so that he had reasons to be afraid.
Perhaps, he would dream that he was standing on the edge of a cliff. If he did not retreat, he would have the possibility of falling to pieces. He must create a state of mind to help himself avoid the exam, such as he compares the exam to a cliff to deceive himself.
In this example, we can also find that another method we often use in dreams is to refine a problem, leave only part of the original problem, and then use metaphorical methods to express the remaining part in the dream and deal with it as the original problem.
For example, there is a student who is brave and visionary, and he hopes that he can complete his work and pass the exam. However, his lifestyle still hopes that he can get support and reaffirm himself. Maybe one night before the exam, he would dream of standing on the top of the mountain. A picture like
only shows a small part of his entire living environment. For him, his problem was very important, but other aspects of the problem were eliminated, leaving only his expectation of success, so he aroused a feeling that was beneficial to himself.
The next morning, he felt energetic and happy when he woke up, and he had more courage than before. He has succeeded before overcoming difficulties.However, despite his reaffirming himself, he was still deceiving himself.
He is not using common sense to face problems, but just through dreams to make himself regain his confidence. This is very common. Just like before a person crosses a stream, he may have to count one, two, and three first. But is counting one, two, and three really that important? Is there a necessary relationship between skipping a stream and counting one, two, and three?
is not. They have nothing to do with each other. He counted one, two, three just to concentrate his attention and trigger a certain feeling.
In the human mind, a certain lifestyle has been reserved and has been consolidated and strengthened through various methods. The most important way is to inspire a certain feeling. We did this day and night, but it was more obvious at night.
We always use our dreams to deceive ourselves, Adler once talked about our own experience. During the war, he was the director of a hospital that housed neurological soldiers. When he sees soldiers who cannot fight, he always does something simple to give them as much as possible and finds ways to make them easy.
In this way, the soldiers' nervous moods disappeared obviously, and this method is quite successful. One day, a soldier came to Adler, and he had no health problems, but looked very depressed. Adler didn't know how to check him. He hoped to send every soldier who came to treat him home, but all the diagnosis must be approved by a senior officer, so he could not give mercy arbitrarily to diagnose the soldier.
Finally, Adler could only say to the soldier: "You are crazy, but you are very healthy. I will let you do some relaxed work so that you don't have to go to the front line." The soldier said pitifully: "I am a poor student. I rely on teaching to support my elderly parents. If I can't teach, they will go hungry and cannot survive."
Adler wanted to help him find a easier job, such as a civilian in the army. However, Adler was also worried that if he really wrote this on the diagnosis, the senior officer would definitely get angry when he knew about it and would send him back to the front line again. Finally, Adler decided to do his best to fill in the truth to prove that this soldier is only suitable for defensive work.
Adler had a dream that night. He dreamed that he had killed someone, and he was running in the dark alley while wondering who he had killed. He kept thinking in his mind: "I committed murder, I'm done. My life is over. Everything is over!" Adler, who was in a dream, was stunned and sweated coldly.
After waking up, his first thought was: "Who did I kill?" Then, he naturally thought: "It was that soldier. If I didn't send him to work in a military agency, he might be sent to the front line again and died. Then I became the murderer." Here, we can see how Adler used his dream to deceive himself, thereby saving a person's life.
In fact, he is not the murderer. If this misfortune really happens, he will not be guilty, but his lifestyle does not allow him to take this risk. Because he is a doctor, his responsibility is to save lives and not to put life in danger.
Adler thought again: If he gave this soldier a relaxing job, perhaps the officer would still send him to the front line, which would only make the situation worse. Finally, Adler finally made up his mind: if he wanted to help this soldier, the only way was to follow common sense judgments and not interfere with his lifestyle.
Therefore, he still issued a diagnosis for soldiers to be suitable for defense work. What happened later also proved that he was right to follow common sense. After reading the diagnosis, the officer threw it on the table. Adler thought to himself, “Now the officer is going to send this poor soldier to the front line, I should still write it clearly and send him to work in the agency."Unexpectedly, the officer approved it and asked him to serve in the military agency for six months.
Later, Adler realized that the officer had accepted a bribe and intended to transfer the soldier to a relaxed unit to work. The young man had never taught or told the truth.
The reason why he made up that story was just to ask Adler to help him prove that he could only do easy work. So that the officer could give instructions on the diagnosis as soon as possible. Since then, Adler has understood the deceptive nature of dreams and is no longer easily affected by them. The purpose of dreams is to indulge and deceive themselves.
But if we understand dreams enough, it cannot deceive us, nor can it cause our mood and emotions anymore. We will use common sense to solve problems, rather than through dreams To get inspiration. If we understand dreams, their purpose will disappear.
Dreams are the bridge between current real problems and lifestyles. Lifestyles do not need to be strengthened, and they can be directly in contact with reality.
However, the ever-changing dreams all show one thing, that is, people will strengthen a certain aspect of their lifestyles based on different situations. Therefore, the explanation of dreams belongs to individuals. We cannot use general formulas to explain all symbols and metaphors, because dreams are the product of a person's lifestyle and are explained by individuals based on specific situations.
The several typical dreams we will describe later are not to propose ways to explain dreams, but just to use them to help us understand dreams and their meanings.
Author of this article: The rain in Weicheng was raining, and a writer who kept walking was always on the road.
