After reading "The Function and Meaning of Dreaming" from Quest 2, I believe that the meaning of the dreams is a mixture of all theories (1.unconscious wish fulfillment theory, 2.survival theory and 3.activation-synthesis theory). People have different dreams with variety ways of dreams interpretation it depends on the cultures, beliefs, age, wishes, area, and etc. Some people especially youth dream achieving their wishes; those they can't obtain it the awake world which supports theory number one Some especially older people dream about their daily life like shopping, working, and etc this supports theory number two. Also people sometimes have different dreams randomly this one supports theory no three. So all these theories could be true at least in some parts.
Personally,I partly agree with the theory of unconscious wish fulfilment because the article really give me the good explanation and examples but Im disagree with how freud explained the object that appear in the dream to be a symbol.It is very ridiculous.
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