The Interpretation of Dreams

Today in class we spent a small amount of time on Sigmund Freud and The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud believed that to truly understand the human mind we need to look further into the unconscious, and the only way to get there is by observing our dreams. This is really interesting to me because I am one of those people that have weird dreams and then wakes up going "Oh, that must mean something!" Freud believes that our dreams are attempts made by our unconscious minds to resolve some kind of conflict. I really see where he's coming from because for me personally I have my most vivid dreams when I am under stress from some sort of conflict. It also makes sense because if we look at Freud's Iceberg Theory we see that our unconscious mind is made up of the id and the superego. The id being the impulsiveness of "I want it now!" and the superego being the moral "No it's wrong."These two parts are constantly conflicting which is what creates our dreams because during sleep the conscious part of our brains (ego) is not working to mediate between the two. I took Psychology last year and we spent a few weeks on Freud's ideas. I really enjoyed it and when we went over Freud a little in class it got me pepped up to go into further detail of the conscious and unconscious mind. I must say the Sigmund Freud was interesting fellow.