WOW!

• Irma Dream Intro by Vic Comello, 4/17/99
  
  

Boy do you give one much to think about ! I am staying away from all surgical procedures for a while. I must thank you Vic for taking so much time to present such a coherent example of Dream Interpretation. Your hypothesis makes a lot of sense to me and takes into account what might have been worrying Freud. You are pointing out the importance of solving a problem through dreaming.

I like your explanations that one uses "dreams during a night of sleep to broaden the adaptations we will use in" dealing with our problems. You go to offer these very important idea that "Dreaming a REM dream means experiencing it in the real world of our memory. Although our motive is to use dream experiences to merely confirm our adaptations, each dream evokes lessons derived from past experience that have not been included in the adaptations. " I think this is extremely significant and orienting. It is necessary in order to understanding a dream. "In this way, memories offer the dreamer advice about how to handle the situations he is currently facing." I think that is the key point ! Well said!

I am curious though why you think that unconscious thought processes are rationally superior to our conscious ones. I tend to think of them as similar rather than one better than the other? Is there a scientific reason for your privileging of the unconscious though processes?

• Conscious vs. Unconscious Processes by Vic Comello, 4/18/99