Psychology – Gleitman
' some distortions involve various
transformations of the unacceptable themes, one is symbolism'. ( riding a horse and walking up a staircase refer to intercourse and passion ).
Dreams and Human Development:
How children learn there is a difference between two realms of phenomena, those which we call subjective and those we call objective. ( How we attain our adult
notion of objective reality, how we come to know that the tree in the garden unlikea dream will still be there after we blink our eyes)
Young children tend to think of them as physical objects.
Dreams and Individual Differences:
Dreams are reflection of a fact that people are different.
Comparison between the dreams of normal people and of patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenics reported dreams that were higly bizarre and morbid.
Dreamer is eaten alive by an alligator, nuclear wars and world cataclysms