for humankind since the beginning of time. These nocturnal vivid

images seem to arise from some source other than our ordinary

conscious mind. They contain a mixture of elements from our own

personal identity which we recognize as familiar along with a quality

of `otherness' in the dream images that carries a sense of the strange

and eerie. The bizarre and nonsensical characters and plots in dreams

point to deeper meanings and contain rational and insightful comments

on our waking situations and emotional experiences. The ancients

thought that dreams were messages from the gods.

The cornerstone of Sigmund Freud's infamous psychoanalysis is

the interpretation of dreams. Freud called dream-interpretation the

"via reggia," or the "royal road" to the unconscious, and it is his

theory of dreams that has best stood the test of time over a period of

more than seventy years (Many of Freud's other theories have been

Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming

is the activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). It was perhaps

likeness of the past. ( Palombo, M.D, 1986 )Although there has been

memory, like the day residue, provides access to the associative

It has been objected on more than one occasion that we in fact

incapable of retaining a dream and may have lost precisely the most

Freud thinks it is highly doubtful that in the case of an

Some topics in this essay:
Palombo MD, Immanuel Kant, According Aristotle's, Referring Freud's, Sigmund Freud's, Dentan PHD, Theory Dreams, Cohen Wolfe, Roland Tanck, Erik Craig, freud pg, palombo md 1986, palombo md, md 1986, dream imagery, fine 1973, wish fulfillment, previous day, psychical processes, waking life, theory dreams, freud pg 74, dentan phd 1988,