How do I know what my dream is?

What is a dream (from General Psychology, China Normal University Edition, 2004) Dreams are imaginary activities that occur during sleep. During sleep, the cerebral cortex is in an unbalanced state of inhibition, and the excitement of nerve cells activates some characteristics. Due to the lack of conscious control and adjustment, the activated representation forms a strange combination, which makes dreams very different from reality. Dreams are generally not dominated by consciousness. The content of dreams comes from life, and most of them are illogical absurd and illusory situations. However, people's dream experience is close to reality. They are worried, afraid, nervous, happy and angry. The subject identity of dreams often changes, sometimes it is oneself, sometimes it is its own deformation, and sometimes it even looks like an "outsider" without identity. Freud explained that this is because the specific content of dreams is actually determined by subconscious desires and emotions, and there is enough psychological energy to promote the "secondary process", that is, the intellectual function of observing the content of dreams. The content of dreams is closely related to personal imagination. A person with rich imagination, his environment is full of strange scenes, while a person with poor imagination, his dreams are often very dull. Dreams sometimes help people break through the stereotype of traditional way of thinking and have an epiphany. This is a window of inspiration. German chemist Kekule realized the structure of benzene ring in his dream, and Bohr discovered the atomic structure model under the inspiration of the dream. These are all examples that dreams stimulate creative thinking. Therefore, some people think that dreams are also a working procedure of the human brain, a positive process, and a screening and storage of information received during the day. Second, the psychological interpretation of dreams (extracted from the general psychology of China Normal University in 2004) is represented by Freud's theory, Jungian theory and problem-solving theory. (1) Freud (S. FREUD) believes that the subconscious instinctive impulse, when a real person sleeps, deceives all the lax psychological examination mechanisms in disguise, gets the performance, and constitutes a dream. Dream is a manifestation of desire, which satisfies instinctive desire to a certain extent, slowly releases accumulated psychological energy, and does not arouse the vigilance of inspection mechanism, thus protecting sleep. Because most of the desires represented by dreams are unacceptable to our consciousness. In order not to directly cause anxiety of conscience, we can only express ourselves in a tortuous and obscure way. One of the techniques is recombination, which combines various image features to make it more symbolic. The second skill is the transformation of emotional focus, and the least prominent part of the dream often reflects the potential meaning best. The third technique is symbolization. Some dreams are repeated, and the meaning is the same for the same person or even different people. The fourth technique is the secondary effect. The plot in the dream, even the plots of several related dreams, are connected in series according to certain clues and combined into a whole. Freud also divided dreams into two levels: explicit dreams and implicit dreams. Showing dreams is the surface plot of dreams, which can be recalled; Implicit dreams express instinctive desires through explicit dreams, and people can understand these desires through psychoanalysis. (2) Jung believes that dreams are natural phenomena and dialogues between the subconscious and the self. He further divided the subconscious into individual subconscious and collective subconscious. The so-called personal subconscious refers to the psychological content that happens to individuals and is related to personal experiences. Collective subconsciousness refers to the experience accumulated by several generations in the long historical evolution process, and it is an innate genetic tendency that human beings must respond to certain events. In the dream, the content of individual subconscious is expressed, and all kinds of original images in collective subconscious are also displayed in the original symbolic way. Dreams are the interweaving of individual subconsciousness and collective subconsciousness, and the latter is dominant. (3) the theory of solving problems. Many psychologists have found that dreams are basically the continuation of thoughts, worries, needs and desires when people are awake. Metaphor and association in dreams can help the dreamer to deal with personal problems in development. Kekule, the discoverer of the chemical structure of benzene ring, described his dream as follows: a snake-shaped molecular chain suddenly grabbed its tail and formed a ring. Hervey had this dream? He's going to be stabbed by a spear with a hole in the tip? This enabled him to perfect the sewing machine he invented. Composers Mozart and Schumann once said that some important musical ideas come from dreams. Third, the analysis of some dreams (the material comes from the "General Psychology" courseware of teacher Chen Yu in beijing language and culture university) The content of dreams is usually just a symbol and an expression of emotions. As long as the original motivation can be found, the dream can be explained. When you have nightmares, you are really afraid of something, not what people used to say. Dreams are all false, at least the emotions in dreams are real. Therefore, in the skills of dream interpretation, the focus is on the exploration of emotions and motives. Dream of being chased: If you dream of being chased, the robber is fake, but the mood is real. 1 I don't know what chasing is, just running hard shows that you have panic and anxiety in your heart. Running is to alleviate this panic. Why is there such anxiety? It depends on your experience to find the answer. Being chased by robbers is likely to make you feel insecure. For example, you think the external environment is unsafe or you are rich. Being chased by the police or monsters may mean that you surrender to authority, or you may have secrets in your mind. Flying dreams 1 flying upwards shows that you are a person with strong desire and self-motivation. Maybe you will have a chance of promotion. It also indicates that you feel more and more dangerous. 3 work pressure, want to get rid of the pressure. Fly fast: it means that you are not very independent now and want to get rid of the shackles of others. Smooth flight: implies that you are eager to have a comfortable and stress-free life. Dreaming that you are comfortable in mid-air: it may mean that life is too busy and you want to live a free life. Dreaming of a large group of people flying in the sky: the dream of taking the exam 1 is ideal: in reality, you may often fail in the exam. The question is simple, but I can't answer it. Vent your anxiety and anxiety. You may face a difficult problem, and time is tight, so you will have this kind of anxiety. I was very nervous in the examination room, but I have no impression of the result: if you had this dream before the exam, it implies that you are also facing certain psychological pressure in real life. If you don't take the exam in the near future, it implies that you are also facing certain psychological pressure in your life. So, the exam is fake, and the stress in your life is real. Answer the question quickly, but don't know how you did: It implies that you don't like dragging your feet in real life. Dreaming of cancer and having no confidence in one's health 6 Dreaming of being kidnapped is likely to hide unknown guilt in the subconscious. Or you are insecure about the environment. 7 dreaming of suicide: it may be that the reality is very stressful. If you want to get rid of it and have no courage, you can get rid of it in a dream.