are, however, having feelings of anxiety,and are thinking about the first.
day of school, before bed.
Clearly then, it is possible to control one's dreams. Someone can.
control his dreams by giving themselves pre- sleep suggestions. If .
perpetual thoughts about going back to school exist, these thoughts are .
then likely to occur in dreams. Another method of influencing dreams is.
called lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is the awareness of the fact that .
one is dreaming, while still asleep and in the dream state; the dreamer is.
then able to alter what happens in the dream without waking up. He is .
actually "beyond dreaming." Someone will be having a dream, when suddenly.
his conscious mind takes notice of an anomaly, or something "not quite .
right," and he thinks, "This can't be real, so I must be dreaming!" .
That's when the magic happens, and the dreamer is aware that he is .
dreaming. Anything can happen. He can fly like a bird, or can talk to a.
long- lost loved one; he can tell his boss how he really feels about his .
job, he can travel to beautiful lands in the blink of an eye, or make .
elephants appear; the possibilities are endless. .
The two most important dream theories are those of the Austrian.
psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his Swiss associate, Carl .
Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Anyone wanting to work with their dreams must.
start by considering the theories of these two men. Freud asserted that.
dreams were the result of repression and certain desires, but that those.
desires were usually so foreign to our waking natures that our dreams .
could refer to them only through symbolism. He believed that if these.
desires were openly expressed, they would appall us, and in fact, we would.
not accept that they could belong to us. Freud also suggested tat dreams.
had a manifest content (what happened in the dream) and latent content .
(what the dream was trying to tell us). Jung believed that there was no .
