Dreaming evolved to resolve emotions that haven’t been de-aroused during the day (the expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming).
However the question remained, why do some emotions NOT get dearoused during dreaming and thus result in problems such as phobias/trauma/molar memories or PTSD?
Watch a video of Joe Griffin, who proposed the expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming, unravel this question at the HGI conference 2007. The answer reveals why we always dream in metaphors.
Posted by: Eleanor
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1 Andrew // Oct 13, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I had a dream last night, it was about griffins devouring these people. There were 7 griffins in total. I remember the first feeling of emotions that was tied to the dream which was a feeling of ah. Once they start attacking it turned in to fear, anger and frustration; I had to protect these people form them. While the griffins were eating the people, I was the only one able to fight them off but in the end I was riding on one of them. I looked into it and found that dreaming of a griffin mean change, so what would the rest of it mean?
2 Eleanor // Oct 15, 2007 at 9:31 am
It’s very difficult to interpret someone else’s dreams as I don’t know the circumstances around the emotional events in your life the in the time before - here’s a page on our dreaming website to help you interpret your own dreams: http://www.why-we-dream.com/dreaminterpretation.htm
3 Andrew // Nov 14, 2007 at 5:47 pm
thanks that help a lot
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