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Dreams

Dreams. Post-Modern Form of Autobiography. Presented by: Jackey Mohan Boro Bhaskar Brahma Sanmukh Rao Deepanshu Gupta . Autobiography. Autobiography is a way to organize the story of a life and reflect on the past in order to better understand the present.

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Dreams

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  1. Dreams Post-Modern Form of Autobiography Presented by: Jackey Mohan Boro Bhaskar Brahma Sanmukh Rao Deepanshu Gupta

  2. Autobiography • Autobiography is a way to organize the story of a life and reflect on the past in order to better understand the present.

  3. Forms of Autobiography • Books • Diaries/Journals • Musicals/Poems • Social Networking websites – Facebook, Twitter • Blogs • Web albums – Picassa, Flickr No one can know better than I what I have thought, what I have wished; I alone have the privilege of discovering myself from the other side of the mirror. (Gusdorf 1980, 35)

  4. Dream • Dreams are a succession of images, ideas, emotions and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Dreams, Dreams, Dreams,Clear or vague,Sweet or sad,Reassuring or scary,In all forms occur

  5. Interpretation of Dreams • Physiologically: response to neural processes during sleep • Psychologically: response to the subconscious • Spiritually: messages from Gods, the deceased, the soul

  6. Interpretation of Dreams • Freud identified dreams as an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. In dreams unconscious conveys its own mental activity to the perceptive faculty. There is an active censorship against the unconscious even during sleep. “Dreams are a royal road to the unconscious” – Sigmund Freud Dreams are always “true”—it’s just that what they mean isn’t always what we think they mean

  7. The conscious and the unconscious

  8. The conscious and the unconscious • Id: unorganised part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives • Ego: organised part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego • Superego: organised part of the personality structure, mainly but not entirely unconscious. Conscience.

  9. Dreams as autobiography • "Nightmares of apocalypse" 8-9 yrs old.

  10. Dreams as autobiography • "Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet." 12-13 yrs old

  11. Dreams as autobiography • "Mission IIT" 16-17 yrs old

  12. Dreams as autobiography • "I wanna be a millionaire someday and know what it feels like to give it away" 21 yr old

  13. How to Remember Dreams • Most of the dreams we dream are forgotten. • There are simple steps one can follow to try and remember the dreams. • http://www.wikihow.com/Remember-Dreams lists some of such steps.

  14. Recording dreams • Kyoto Japan. • Image reconstruct based on scans of the brain's visual cortex

  15. Other Possible Options Science fiction has given us various ideas on similar topics: • Means of directly reading one's memories: eg. Vampires • Means of playing out one's memories in real time. eg. the 6th day • Means of sharing dreams. eg inception • Means of sharing experiences eg. jonny quest

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