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Originally Posted by Crowbob
Classical Freudian Psychoanalysis and Dream Interpretation has pretty much been put somewhere between Astrology and Voodoo. Plus, I’m pretty sure Freud never uttered the word ‘subconscious’. There is only conscious and unconscious, the realm of unconsciousness being populated by the Id, Ego and Superego which are sort of at war with each other creating guilt, penis envy, and allot of money for therapists.
Jungian psychology does have some theoretical validity though, mostly because we all share very, very similar DNA structures going back into the eons of human history.
My theory is that sleep is a sort of daily (nightly) mechanism to purge one’s brain of the millions and millions of excess memory traces a healthy brain creates with every single moment of consciousness. That purge results in dreams; sort of like brain poop, if you will.
Recurrent dreams are sort of stuck, their traces don’t get purged, eventually being permanently lodged and becoming memory traces that we end up consciously remembering.
Or, aliens from another dimension talk to us during sleep.
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Not quite Sherlock. Only 10% of your brain function lies in the realm of consciousness. The rest like an iceberg functions below the conscious level. Constant computing bodily functions and how to react to various situations that you find yourself in.
The language of the subconscious lies in imagery or audio. Where do you think creativity comes from. The imagination is nothing but imagery brought up the elevator from the subconscious. By your way of thinking Einstein's Theory of Relativity was brain poop. As he was doing something completely unrelated to thinking about the problem when he had the moment of epiphany.
Then there is neural plasticity where science has found that cognitive talk therapy changes brain wiring over time. Your thinking is so so late 20Th century..