Thursday, March 12, 2009

Something that struck me as particularly interesting from lecture today was when Prof. Doane talked about how a dream is only available to the analyst through the patient's recounting of the dream; the words chosen to describe the dream are of the utmost importance. This got me thinking about lucid dreaming: when one records or recounts dreams regularly, it becomes easier and easier to control one's own actions in, and outcomes of dreams. How would a lucid dream be able to be psycho-analyzed? When one is having a lucid dream, are one's own choices determined by the conscious or the unconscious? Furthermore, would Freud even think that lucid dreaming is a real phenomenon?

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