Dreams A high school athlete can dream of advancing their career to college, or even professionally. A filthy rich man can dream he is poor and living in the slums. Author Naomi Epel believes that "Your unconscious knows things your conscious doesn't. It can be an alley with new insights" (Von Kreisler 143). According to recent research, most dreams have been described as distorted reflections of our daily lives. They do not necessarily have to be …showed first 75 words of 1233 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1233 total…Freud's Dream Theory (Dream Talk). According to Freud, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. But today researchers are saying that dreams have no inherent meaning, just lots of emotion. Freud believed that dreaming was a time away from the waking self in which your innermost thoughts and feelings could be liberated. Now it's believed that "semi-random neuronal firings" are the cause of what you see and dream in your dreams ("How to Build...").