Freud believed that our dreams are distorted because these distorted dreams are repressed thoughts and feelings. These distortions make the manifest content extremely different than the latent content that was reached from analysis. Freud believed that by reversing these distortions we can derive what the latent content means. The operations for the analysis of the latent content are condensation, displacement, representation, and symbolism. Condensation is one dream object stands for several associations and ideas. Condensation is a colleague, many ideas intertwined into one object. Displacement is a dream object's emotional significance is separated from its real content and attaches to a different emotion to not raise suspicion from the dreamer. Displacement is like a ninja, a master of deception. Representation is a thought that is translated to visual images. Representation, hallucination; very similar. Symbolism is a symbol that replaces a person, place, or thing. Yeah... a symbol explains itself.
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When I was younger, I had these dreams all the time. Usually, they scared me because I would see all types of characters mixed together in one dream similar to Alice and Wonderland. I believe, it was the amount of films and movies I watched. All those characters became "hallucinations," and somewhat exaggerated. In addition, I've always been very creative and observant, so if I saw a random picture in a store I would study the colors and the emotions that it portrayed. I became fascinated by the most colorful posters that came into my view so, I believe these observations filed in my thoughts somewhere then translating into these distorted dreams.
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