Dreams: Everyone Is Doing It (Some Just Don't Know It)

In this weeks readings we learned how dreams can play a role in our live whether they be consciously or unconsciously. More specifically we looked at Freud and Chaplin to see how their dreams played a role in their lives. In Charlie Chaplin and His Dreams Lemaster explains how Chaplin's dream sequences are highly overlooked by critics, he goes on to explain how he used these dreams to get the audience to truly connect with his character. In the reading Psychoanalysis of Dreams by Daniel Walden and Helena Poch they discussed the importance of the analyzation of his own dreams in the work of Sigmund Freud. So, dreams have played a major role in depiction of what the dreamer truly wants or who they are.

While reading the articles for this week I kept imagining plankton and those daydreams he has in the Spongebob Squarepants episodes I used to watch. It seemed like his dreams were always about stealing the Krabby Patty formula in order to make them at his restaurant the Chum Bucket so he could have the popular restaurant and not Mr. Krabs. This (although a very literal example) shows dreams coming from the conscious of the dreamer. This what the person knows they want and are dreaming about how they can achieve it.

Another way dreams are used is in the subconscious of the person. Often the person dreams or does things that without even knowing relay some sort of emotion or action they would like accomplished. One of my favorite nooks and movies are the Harry potter series written by J.K. Rowling. Her stories of a magical wizarding world where anything is possible is amazing and something that i found truly enjoyable. In an interview with Amazon UK she tells the moderator that when she reads chapter 12 from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone she can tell that she was projecting her emotions of her mother's death onto Harry. Rowling did this not knowing at the time she was actually doing it, in other words her subconscious was projecting her emotions without her intentionally doing so on her own.

Johnny Kassis