Dream is the dreamer’s own psychical act.
the Interpretation Of Dreamsby sigmund Freud
Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.
The sheer size too, the excessive abundance, scale, and exaggeration of dreams could be an infantile characteristic. The most ardent wish of children is to grow up and get as big a share of everything as the grown-ups; they are hard to satisfy; do not know the meaning of “enough”.
The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.
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Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
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Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
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I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.