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  • I wonder, in fact, if it's how we decide whether or not to accept people bursting into song during musicals — that transition, after all, pretty definitively shifts any narrative's level of realism into the realm of dream-reality, so maybe we only buy it if the musical addition sufficiently mirrors what we (perhaps subconsciously) recognize as the dramatic dream-work, the unconscious desire motivating the shift from speech into song.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Freud agreed with previous theories that dreams were a psychological effort at wish-fulfillment, but saw the representation of those wishes not in the dream-thought, but in the dream-work; the unconscious desire that fuels the dream can be found in the particular way the dream-thought is transposed into an actual dream.

    You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • In other words, dream-work is dualistic in nature.

    Natasha Dern: Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future? 2010

  • I wonder, in fact, if it's how we decide whether or not to accept people bursting into song during musicals — that transition, after all, pretty definitively shifts any narrative's level of realism into the realm of dream-reality, so maybe we only buy it if the musical addition sufficiently mirrors what we (perhaps subconsciously) recognize as the dramatic dream-work, the unconscious desire motivating the shift from speech into song.

    You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Because what he was really interested in was the dream-work, the specific translation from latent thought to actual dream.

    You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Freud agreed with previous theories that dreams were a psychological effort at wish-fulfillment, but saw the representation of those wishes not in the dream-thought, but in the dream-work; the unconscious desire that fuels the dream can be found in the particular way the dream-thought is transposed into an actual dream.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • In other words, dream-work is dualistic in nature.

    Natasha Dern: Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future? 2010

  • In other words, dream-work is dualistic in nature.

    Natasha Dern: Can Dreams Reveal Potential or Predict The Future? 2010

  • Because what he was really interested in was the dream-work, the specific translation from latent thought to actual dream.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • These nightmares are generally psychological in nature, and if dream-work and journaling do not help alleviate them, psychotherapy or hypnosis sometimes can.

    Janet Kinosian: A Short Guide To Understanding Your Nightmares 2009

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