Kelly+McDermott+and+Dreams

﻿Do Dreams have an understandable purpose, and do they give us deeper insight into our subconcious?

If a dream actually means something, actually matters, shouldn’t everyone care, rather than simply blow it off?

 (Browne, Sylvia, and Lindsay Harrison. Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams. New York: Dutton, 2002. Print)
 * Silvia Browne is known in many circles as a legitimit medium (a person who can speak to spirts beyond the living world). Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams discusses various types of dreams and how they come into our minds in sleep.
 * she also believes in God, the Other Side, and spirit guides
 * Prophetic dreams
 * When one visits the Other Side in an asteral visit, going to the Hall of Records, and seeing one's own life chart (plan one made before birth)
 * Realese dreams
 * When intense emotion is 'realesed'
 * good or bad
 * Wish dreams
 * When one's subconcious displays what one wants to happen.
 * sometimes simple and obvious, and sometimes a surprise
 * Information and Problem Solving
 * When one's body goes to sleep, the brain does not completly
 * But since the conscience does; getting the part of the brain that gets in the way out of the way
 * Asteral Visits
 * Asteral projection is when the spirit takes a trip out of the body
 * Asteral Visits can be to The Other Side (Browne refers to as home), visits with other spirits, or simply one's spirit venturing away from its body.
 * Asteral Catalepsy
 * Symptoms include paralysis, feeling a negitive being is in the room, and loud noises, among others.
 * Always associated with asteral travel
 * Archtypes
 * Although symbols mean differeant things to differant people, and there are many theories out there, there are some classics
 * An example Browne uses is when dreaming of a house usually either
 * a) It is an actual house from a past life or from real life
 * b) the house is "you"
 * can be release dreams, or problem solving
 * Lucid dreams and Day dreams
 * Of the subconscience
 * Lucid dreams, are those you realize part way through are dreams
 * Browne explains that sometimes, with practice, one can control these
 * Day dreams are in fundementals subconscience wish dreams

Silvia Browne may not be believed by everyone, especially those who do not believe in the Other Side or talking to spirits, but her views are well known, and are largely accepted. She will be an excellent source for finding an answer to my question.

Jeffery, Robert. "And Finally . . . Dreaming." Expository Times (2010). Web. 20 Oct. 2010
 * Jeffery begins by mentioning Carl Jung's theory on dreams.
 * Dreaming is the unconsious coming forwarrd through symbols in our dreams.
 * God uses dreams as warnings to Kings, such as King Daniel or Nebuchadenezzar.
 * There can be false prophets, and false interrpritations.
 * The most famous biblical dreamer is Joseph.
 * Joseph is most known for being the father of baby, mortal Jesus. He was sent a dream that told him to "accept Mary and not divorce her".
 * Another reason Joseph is famous, because he saved his family from starvation. He then transferred his family to Egypt. He did all of this because of his dreams, sent to him from the Christian God of the Bible.

Robert Jeffery discusses the popular notion that God gives dreams to us as warnings, and will therefore be a great addition to my research.

Price, S. R. F., and Emily Kearns. //The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion//. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
 * mentions freudian theories, but not in depth
 * that dreams could be/are significant is found at the earliest with Homer's writings
 * author of __On the Sacred Disease__ says that dreams are only "disturbences of the brain"

Wilkinson, Margaret. "The Dreaming Mind-brain: a Jungian Perspective." Journal of Analytical Psychology (2006): 43-59. Academic Search Premir. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. Marozza, Maria Ilena. "When Does a Dream Begin to ‘have Meaning'? Linguistic Constraints and Significant Moments in the Construction of the Meaning of a Dream." Journal of Analytical Psychology (2005): 693-705. Academic Search Premir. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.
 * Wilinson mainly focuses on Carl Jung's theories on dream, inlcuding the a science aspect that relates to his theories. She also mentions a few other people's theories to support jungian ways.
 * Discusses "psychotic dreams", which are believed to be dreams that give valuable and useful information. These dreams are also refute freudian theories.