20-09-2017, 10:18 AM
The interpretation of dreams is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, the message of which could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.
In modern times, several schools of psychology and neuro-biology have offered theories on the meaning and purpose of dreams. Most people today seem to interpret the content of dreams according to the Freudian dream theory in countries, as has been found in a study conducted in the United States, India and South Korea.
People seem to believe that dreams are particularly meaningful: they attach more meaning to dreams than to similar waking thoughts. For example, people report that they would be more likely to cancel a trip they had planned involving an airplane flight if they dreamed of their plane crashing last night than if they thought their plane crashed the night before or the Homeland Security Department issued a Federal warning.
However, people do not attach equal importance to all dreams. People seem to use motivated reasoning in interpreting their dreams. They are more likely to see dreams that confirm their waking beliefs and desires to be more meaningful than dreams that contradict their waking beliefs and desires.