DreamsPost-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.

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)

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

Interpretation of Dreams

Physiologically: response to neural processes during sleep

Psychologically: response to the subconscious

Spiritually: messages from Gods, the deceased, the soul

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

The conscious and the unconscious

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.

Dreams as autobiography

"Nightmares of apocalypse" 8-9 yrs old.

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

Dreams as autobiography

"Mission IIT" 16-17 yrs old

Dreams as autobiography

"I wanna be a millionaire someday and know what it feels like to give it away" 21 yr old

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.

Recording dreams Kyoto Japan.

Image reconstruct based on scans of the brain's visual cortex

Other Possible OptionsScience 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