Moalims

Dreams

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>&nbsp;what about the emotion in dreams? Aren't dreams principally the place to confront difficult and surprising emotions and sit with those emotions in a new way? Ernest Hartmann, a doctor at Tufts, focuses on the emotional learning that happens in dreams. He has developed the theory that dreaming puts our difficult emotions into pictures. In dreams, we deal with emotional content in a safe place, making connections that we would not make if left to our more critical or defensive brains. In this sense, dreaming is like therapy on the couch: We think through emotional stuff in a less rational and defensive frame of mind. Through that process, we come to accept truths we might otherwise repress. Dreams are our nightly psychotherapy.</em></strong></p> <p><em><strong>What do you think? We are all authors, in a way, every night we dream. Is there a mind behind what's written in your dreams? Why are your dreams of use?&nbsp;</strong></em></p>