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Friday, November 16, 2007

Dreams About Arms

Seeing arms, either your own or someone else’s in a dream is very common.While arms do not always have special significance in dreams, arms can be very significant under some circumstances.


Dreams in which details about arms remembered are likely to be significant, since it tends to be the most significant details that are remembered upon waking.Since dreams fade so quickly, if you are able to remember how arms figured in your dreams, chances are the dream had something important to tell you.


When you see your arms in a dream, especially when they represent an important part of the dream narrative, those arms may be symbols for your nurturing side, and for your desire to reach out and care for the people around you.Dreaming about arms is particularly common in people who are currently caring for, or worried about, a sick friend or family member.Reaching out with the arms in a dream is your mind’s way of telling you how important it is to connect and care for those around you.


Dreams about arms can also be indications of the challenges and struggles in your life.Again, the exact meaning will depend on the context of the arms within the dream narrative.Using your hands and arms for defense can indicate you feel like you are under attack, or that you need to defend yourself.


The impetus for this kind of dream about arms could come from many sources.For instance, perhaps you feel like you are being unfairly singled out for criticism in your job, and you feel a desire to strike back or defend yourself against the onslaught.Or perhaps you feel overwhelmed by events in your life, and you feel the need to struggle against those challenges.


Dreams in which your arm is injured, or dreams in which you appear with your arm in a cast, can signify that you feel an inability to care for yourself.These kind of injured or broken arm dreams an also mean that you are feeling helpless in being able to care for others.People who are caring for a friend or family member whose medical condition is beyond their control may experience dreams in which their arm is injured, or they may see themselves in a cast.


A dream about a broken or injured arm can also mean that the dreamer has been feeling restricted or limited in his or her activities.Seeing yourself constrained in the dream, by a cast or a broken arm, can be a symbol of your perceived restriction of freedom or movement.


The specific arm featured in the dream also carries a significance.The right arm is often seen as a symbol for an outgoing nature, and the right arm is often associated with the masculine side of the dreamer’s nature.The left arm, on the other hand, is more associated with female characteristics, such as nurturing and caring.


A dream in which the dreamer injures someone else’s arms, or even rips them from their sockets, indicate that the dreamer has been repressing anger towards another person, but has been prevented from expressing that anger for one reason or another.Like most dreams about violence, this type of dream stems from a repressed anger and a perceived inability to do anything about it.



Monday, November 12, 2007

Dream Workers ( German language)

Mein Freund und ich denke an das Schreiben eines Romans zusammen. Sie hat ein paar Dinge, in den Genres Science Fiction, ein Genre ich nichts weiß. Wir denken, dass es wird etwas sci-fi wie Never Let Me Go oder The Handmaid's Tale. In der Tat, die Handlung, die wir entwickelt haben, so weit zu viel klingt wie Ishiguro Roman! Unsere jüngsten Gespräche erinnerte mich an diesen Passus:

"Aber wir haben noch zu erklären, wie Träume, die aus unbewussten verursacht zu große Störung. Bei dem Versuch zu tun, ist es hilfreich zu nutzen, noch eine Metapher, dieses Mal von der Deutung der Träume. Die Metapher ist aufschlussreich, weil Es weist auf die Zugehörigkeit der Träume auf die schriftliche Sprache. Dreams, sagte Freud, wie die Presse unter einem autokratischen Regime, sind das Ergebnis eines Kompromisses zwischen den Reportern des Unbewußten und der Zensur, die überwacht und bearbeitet das Material vorgelegt. Aber wie Schriftsteller in solchen Regimes entdeckt haben, gibt es Möglichkeiten, sich rund um Zensur: "zum Beispiel, so kann er beschreiben einer Streitigkeit zwischen zwei Mandarinen im Reich der Mitte, wenn die Menschen, die er im Auge hat, sind die Beamten in seinem eigenen Land" (SE 4, S. 142). Wie zensiert Schriftsteller, Träume Arbeitsmarkt unter dem doppelten Imperativ zu zeigen, und um ihre eigenen Bedeutungen. Sie sind nicht eigensicheren "witzig und genial", wie die Fußnote zu unserer heutigen Passage Staaten, sondern vielmehr "gezwungen werden, so "Durch die Tatsache, dass" die direkte und einfachste Weg, um den Ausdruck ihrer Gedanken ist gesperrt. "Freuds Wendung für diese gezwungen, Witz und Einfallsreichtum -- die" Traum - Arbeit "(Traumarbeit) -- ist sehr genauer: in Ermangelung Eine direkte und einfache Wege zur Zufriedenheit, Träume sind gezwungen zu arbeiten, zu weben peinlich verkleidet und machen labyrinthisch Umwege. Sie verdrängen und kondensieren Bedeutungen, schmieden, ein System der schrägen verbale und visuelle Darstellung Ersatz für die genauere Wortschatz und Syntax unserer Wachen. Freud festgestellt, zum Beispiel, dass Träume besitzen keine Möglichkeit, die "entweder / oder" (in dieser Hinsicht sie natürlich tragen die Marke ihrer unbewussten Quellen) andere als Ungenauigkeit (akustisch oder visuell). Das, was das erwachende Geist vertritt als ähnlich, die träumen Geist vertritt als einheitliches, aber was wir bewusst wahrnehmen, als eine logische Beziehung zwischen zwei Personen gestaltet von der Traum durch Gleichzeitigkeit in der Zeit. Schmerzhafte Emotionen betrifft oder deren direkter Ausdruck mit der Zensur der Marker Stift sind Umgekehrt, wie im Traum Freud Datensätze, in denen ein älterer Herr Register seiner morbiden Traurigkeit an seinem Tod behindern, als "ungebremste Lachen

Eine kleine Nachlese Factory: Traum Arbeitnehmer

Friday, November 9, 2007

Dream Workers

My friend and I are thinking of writing a novel together. She's has written a few things, in the science fiction genre, a genre I know nothing about. We're thinking that it's going to be somewhat sci-fi like Never Let Me Go or The Handmaid's Tale. In fact, the plot that we've devised so far sounds too much like Ishiguro's novel! Our recent conversations reminded me of this passage:

"But we've yet to explain how dreams keep the unconscious from causing too great a disturbance. In attempting to do so, it's helpful to make use of yet another metaphor, this time from The Interpretation of Dreams itself. The metaphor is instructive because it points to the affinity of dreams to written language. Dreams, said Freud, like the press under an autocratic regime, are the outcome of a compromise between the reporters of the unconscious and the censor, who monitors and edits the material submitted. But as writers in such regimes have discovered, there are ways of getting around censorship: 'for instance, he may describe a dispute between two Mandarins in the Middle Kingdom, when the people he has in mind are officials in his own country' (SE 4, p. 142). Like censored writers, dreams labour under the double imperative to reveal and to conceal their own meanings. They are not intrinsically 'witty and ingenious', as the footnote to our present passage states, but rather 'forced into becoming so' by the fact that, 'the direct and easiest pathways to the expression of their thoughts is barred'. Freud's coinage for this forced wit and ingenuity--the 'dream-work' (Traumarbeit)--is very precise: in the absence of a direct and easy pathways to satisfaction, dreams are forced to work, to weave painstaking disguises and make labyrinthine detours. They displace and condense meanings, forge a system of oblique verbal and visual representation to substitute for the more exact vocabulary and syntax of our waking language. Freud noted, for example, that dreams possess no means of representing 'either/or' (in this regard they of course bear the mark of their unconscious sources) other than as vagueness (auditory or visual). That which the waking mind represents as similar, the dreaming mind represents as unified, whilst what we consciously perceive as a logical relation between two entities is figured by the dream by means of simultaneity in time. Painful affects or emotions whose direct expression meet with the censor's marker pen are reversed, as in the dream Freud records in which an elderly gentleman registers his morbid sadness at his impeding death, as 'unrestrained laughter

A Small Gleaning Factory: Dream Workers