Where did my dream come from? It's your first day of high school and as you walk down the halls you notice that everyone is laughing and pointing at you. Suddenly you realize that you have no clothes on and panic sets in and BOOM. you wake up and realize it was all just a dream. As you sit and discuss your dream with your friends at the lunch table, you can't help but wonder, what does it all mean? Such a situation could not possibly happen, so where could such a horrible idea come from? Many dream analysts, philosophers, psychologists, and interpreters have pondered this question for centuries. Can anyone truly find the source of dreams or even control them? There have been arguments, debates and volumes of written on various theories on the true source of dreams. One author of many dream articles, Robert Gnuse, supports the theory that deities or the gods send dreams themselves. which vary in each culture. In one piece entitled Dreams and Dream Reports in the Writings of Josephus he does so by listing numerous examples of dreams from different times and places, which could only be explained as being sent by some divine source. Another theory of the source of dreams is that they come as a psychological result of a persons past and present experiences. Sigmund Freud upholds this idea in his article On Dreams. In this piece, he shows how experiences in ones life can reappear in dreams in the form of various symbols and events. One final theory, which is argued by Jung, in The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams, is that dreams don't come from experiences but come as a result of patterns of the brain. As you will see, each theory has certain validity and at the same time downfalls.Dating back to Ancient times, dreams were thought to be a result of some higher divinity trying to reach them. They believed that dreams were sent by the Gods or some deity in an effort to deliver some kind of message. ...
