Give you a dream ruler

The phenomenon of dreams is different from many other phenomena. We can observe the mirage phenomenon with hundreds of people. Rainbow phenomena, tidal phenomena, and never two people observing the same dream together. Although we can use an EEG. Measures such as eye movements can tell if a person is dreaming, but we can never know what he is dreaming about. Therefore, the proof of the meaning of dreams or the further study of dreams cannot but rely on the dreamer's self-observation or introspection. If, through the process of introspection and interpretation, we discover that dreams have meaning, the question is answered.

But are introspection and interpretation unreliable? In psychological research, introspection was the first method used, but later psychology abandoned this method, and this method is still used today! Day is not valued. The reason is that introspection has its limitations. There are many limitations to introspection of dreams, including: 1. Interference. Introspection interferes with ongoing mental activity. When half awake and half asleep, if you try to introspect and try to remember the dream, the dream will stop and the person will wake up. 2. Deception. If a person tells a false dream made up, or he ADAPTS his own dream, we cannot tell directly, and it is not easy to tell whether it is true or false. 3. Forget. People cannot tell or record their dreams while dreaming, they can only tell the dream after waking up, and this is actually recalling the dream. Dreams are easily forgotten, so the dreams people tell are only fragments of real dreams. 4. Cannot be repeated. The vast majority of dreams are one-off, they occur once and then never again. A few dreams do repeat, but we can't intentionally repeat them. We cannot say: 'Last night's dream did not see clearly, today let me dream again.' 5. Hard to control. Most people have no control over their dreams. In the natural sciences there is a principle that only two or more people observing the same event at the same time can be trusted. And a phenomenon must be repeatable under the same conditions. According to this principle, dreams cannot be the object of scientific research. Dreams can neither be seen by two people at the same time nor repeated. To study dreams, we must extend this principle. We can modify this by saying that similar events observed by more than two people have credibility, and that phenomena that can be repeated in a similar form have credibility. In addition, we should have some new methods of introspection. To gain an understanding of dreams, the authors of this book use three new methods of introspection. 1 Method of natural introspection. That is, let the dreamer tell or picture the dream. 2 Introspective imprinting. Use different people's dreams or materials in them as circumstantial evidence. 3 Control introspection. Control certain conditions for introspection. For example, see if you dream about drinking water after eating pickles. Another example is that dreams can be controlled by trained people. These new methods of introspection can ensure reliability according to the following principles: First, if it is judged that the dream teller has no motive to cheat, his introspection report is credible. The meaning of this principle is that if the dreamer does not want to deceive us, his word can be trusted. So how do you tell if the person telling the dream has no motive to deceive? This can be judged from the following aspects. 1. If the narrated dream brings no practical benefit to the dreamer, his introspective report is unlikely to be deceptive and thus credible. There is an example in Feng Yi Zhuan, The Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Liu Xiu asked Feng Yi world situation. Feng Yi said that now the world has no master, advised Liu Xiu to take the throne as emperor. Liu Xiu then told his dream: 'I dreamed last night to ride the red dragon to heaven.' In the minds of ancient Chinese, dreaming of dragons or the heavens predicted that the dreamer would become an emperor, so Feng Yi explained that the dream indicated that Liu Xiu was destined to be emperor, and Liu Xiu agreed to take the throne. This dream is very beneficial to Liu Xiu. Because Liu Xiu wanted to be emperor very much, but according to the moral tradition of the Chinese people, he had to refuse to accept until there was a strong reason for becoming emperor that he could not refuse. The dream was a powerful reason, the best excuse for him to accept the offer of being emperor. A large number of such dreams circulated in Chinese history have very low credibility. These dreams should not be used as evidence. 2. If the narrated dream is harmful to the dream teller, or contains content that the dream teller does not wish to reveal, his introspective report is unlikely to be deceptive and thus credible. For example, a peasant said that he dreamed of becoming an emperor and was killed by the emperor. His dream has a high degree of credibility. Moreover, if the dream reveals the psychological content that the dreamer does not want people to know, such as resentment toward relatives. Immoral sexual impulses, etc., this dream has a certain degree of survivability. A female college student told a dream to a male student he met for the first time during a trip chat: 'A man is going to give me an injection.' I was a little scared, and the man said, 'It doesn't matter, just take this medicine and you'll be fine.' The meaning of the dream was that the man wanted to have sex with her and she was afraid of getting pregnant, so the man said it would be okay if he took birth control pills.' Obviously the girl wouldn't want to be open about her sex life to someone she'd just met, so the dream had some credibility. 3. If the dream teller is honest, his introspective report has credibility. On the contrary, if the person telling the dream likes to sensationalize and show off, his dream credibility is poor. Because he may have deliberately 'adapted' the dream to be more bizarre in order to attract others' attention. 4. If the dream teller does not have a very fixed belief in the dream, his introspective report is credible. If the dreamer is firmly committed to the belief that dreams are an omen, he may report that some dreams accurately foresee future dreams. In fact, it may be the case that when a great event occurs, he finds one of the many dreams in his memory that seems to have something to do with it, and intentionally or unintentionally modifies this dream so that it seems to be an omen. People who believe in other dream theories or dream beliefs are also prone to unconsciously distorting dreams to fit their own theoretical beliefs. If the dream teller lacks the ability to fabricate false dreams, then his introspective report is credible. Children's dream reports are more reliable because it is almost impossible for them to make up a false dream without being detected. If a person who does not know any scientific knowledge or theory of dreams reports a dream that is complex and fits into a certain theory, we deem the dream credible. For example, a person who does not understand the Freudian dream theory at all, but reports a dream typically formed by condensation, has credibility. If the dreamer reports the dream when he first wakes up, then his introspective report is credible. The closer the story is to the time when the dream occurred, the more credible it is. Since we forget dreams so quickly, reporting them when we first wake up can greatly reduce forgetting. If a person tells a dream from a month or even years ago, his story has very little credibility. Because in such a long time, most of the details of the dream have been lost. If a dream is recorded as soon as one wakes up, the record is equally credible. If the form and content of the dream conform to the general characteristics of the dream, then the introspective report is credible. For example, most dreams are composed primarily of visual images and rarely have long conversations. If a person reports that he saw something in his dream, he is more credible, and if he says that he heard hundreds of words spoken in his dream, he is not credible. Generally speaking, the ability to perform mathematical calculations in dreams is low, and it is not credible for someone to say that he has accurately calculated complex mathematical problems in dreams. However, if the dreamer who dreams that someone is saying a lot of words is blind, and the dreamer who dreams of a strong computational ability is a mathematician, this introspective report cannot be said to be completely unreliable. If similar dreams confirm each other, the credibility of the dream report increases. The more verified dreams, the higher the credibility. If no one in the past had ever reported dreaming of anything with color, and everyone said that the dream was black and white, only one person reported that 'I had a color dream,' we would be skeptical of his report. And when many people say they have had colored dreams, we can believe that colored dreams definitely exist. Generally speaking, after all, it is unlikely that so many people will tell the same lie. Dream plots can also confirm each other. For example, a person reported that he was forced to run in a dream, that he wanted to run but could not run, and that he later woke up scared. If others have reported similar episodes, then the dream report is credible. Dream structures can also confirm each other. For example, someone reports that she had two dreams in succession that were completely opposite. The first was of her and her boyfriend standing on a sailboat surrounded by a sunny sea. The latter one is of her standing alone in the water, about to be submerged. It seems that these two dreams are rather two parts of the same dream, and by the contrast between them, illustrate such a theme, the happiness of the past and the loneliness of the present. So, is this the case? Do dreams take this contrasting approach? If we find this contrasting dream more than once, we can be sure that dreams do have such a structure. If the content of the dream is related to the stimuli and life events experienced by the dreamer, then his introspective report is credible. 1. If the content of the dream is related to the internal and external stimuli received by the dreamer during the dream, it is credible. For example, when you sleep, you hear the doorbell ring, and after a while the dreamer wakes up and says that the dream sees the temple tour and the wind chimes on the tower are ringing. Another example is eating and drinking in a dream, and waking up a little later to find that you are hungry. 2. If the content of the dream is related to recent life events of the dreamer, it is credible. For example, a person dreams that a white snake bites him. The interpreter asked him to remember what had happened in the previous day. He said it was nothing special, just a quarrel with a classmate, and then said that the classmate was wearing a white shirt. There is a correlation between the dream and this event: the white snake and the man in the white shirt. The dream has credibility. 3. If the content of the dream is related to a major life event in the dreamer's past, it is credible. A girl often had a nightmare that the window was opened and a monster with long hair was standing in it. According to the investigation, she had been raped in the house, and the offender had entered through the window. Therefore, the dream has credibility. With the above principles in mind, we can generally determine that a person's dream is generally credible. Of course, in practice, it is impossible for every dream example to meet all of these principles. The more principles a dream can satisfy, the more believable it is. In real life, I have found that although it is rare to tell false dreams, it is very common to tell real dreams with a few adaptations and deletions. The most common is to say to you: 'I had a friend who had a dream about something...' . Six or seven times out of ten this 'friend' is actually himself. In this case, I usually don't care who he is and interpret the dream first. If you need background information or associations, ask the dreamer directly. 'Was he angry before the dream?' 'Or' Is he married? Let's wait. If the dreamer answers, then perhaps the dream will come to him, otherwise he will not know so much about the dreamer. If the dreamer can't tell, it may really be his friend's dream. Once when I was interpreting a dream, I asked, 'Is this friend of yours working?' Do you want to change your job?' The other person answered one by one. 'My friend does want to change jobs,' he began. Later, she said, 'I just can't get along with this boss, I think I must be transferred this year' and so on. When the other person does not know what to say, I generally still do not point out, unless the other person says 'I' how. Showing that you're smart, that you can see through people, doesn't mean anything. According to the dream, tell him what to look out for. It is also common for dreams to be abridged, by omitting the content that is difficult to tell. This can often be detected by incoherence in the context of the dream. But generally speaking, as long as it doesn't affect dream interpretation, don't worry about it. The deletion is sometimes done unconsciously, and when the dreamer tells the dream, he will say, 'Here is a passage I forgot.' This forgotten paragraph often contains a meaning that is not intended to be known. Freud found an interesting phenomenon, that is, when the dreamer tells the dream, the words are related to the dream. For example, when a person tells a dream and forgets a paragraph in the middle, he says, 'There seems to be something missing here.' After analysis, it was found that his dream was related to a past event, when he was a child, he had mistakenly been in someone else's room and was meeting a woman to change clothes. He saw his partner's private parts and was surprised to find that 'something was missing.' Another woman forgets a dream and says, 'There's something unclear here.' According to the analysis, her dream is related to her current situation, she has an affair, and now she is pregnant and does not know who the father of the child is. Release the dream, forget one paragraph don't worry about it, release the other part first. When the other parts are released, the forgotten parts often spring out of the dreamer's mind. Perhaps this is because there is a connection between a dream and another dream, and interpreting this part can reveal the meaning of that part of the dream. Dream adaptations are even less common, often just changing the names of the people in the dream. Adapted dreams can sound awkward and are easier to recognize. If you doubt the other party's adaptation, just ask: 'There seems to be something wrong with this place, you can carefully recall.' That's it. If someone tells you a false dream and you don't realize it, you can interpret it according to the true dream. You don't have to be embarrassed when someone else finds out. There is such a story in ancient China: someone asked Zhou Xuan, 'I dreamed of a humble dog yesterday, what was the omen?' Zhou Xuan said, 'You will get delicious food.' After a while the dreamer met the banquet. Later, the man asked Zhou Xuan: 'Yesterday I dreamed of a humble dog again, what was the omen?' Zhou Xuan said, 'You will fall off the car and break your foot.' After a while, the fork came true. Later, the man asked Zhou Xuan again, 'What do you mean that I dreamed of a humble dog again?' Zhou Xuan said, 'Your house is going to catch fire.' And so it was. The man said to Zhou Xuan: 'These three times I did not dream, I was trying you, how so clever.' Zhou Xuan said, 'This is what the gods told you to say, and it is no different from a real dream.' The man asked, 'Why are the three dreams the same but the signs different?' Zhou Xuan said: 'The dog is a sacrifice to God, so I dreamed that it has food, and after the sacrifice, the dog was run over by a car, so you fell into the car and broke your foot, and the dog finally made wood to burn, so your house was on fire.' We cannot agree with Zhou Xuan's belief that dreams are inspired by the gods. But he was right about one thing: false dreams can be interpreted as real dreams. Why is that? Because people's subconscious will affect people's words and deeds. Or as we call it, your subconscious mind is also active during the day. When you say something casually, your subconscious mind instructs you to say something consistent with your heart. There was once a man who was chairing a meeting, who was not at all interested in the meeting, and when he meant to say, 'Now we are meeting,' he accidentally said, 'Now we are not meeting.' This is the subconscious working in the dark to make him inadvertently say 'break up the meeting'. This kind of unintentional truth also occurs when a person makes up a false dream. If you interpret the false dream correctly, this interpretation can also reveal the inner workings of the other person.