User:Mouhssine

In dream we act strangely. We do things thst we would never do when we are awake. We think and say things we would never think and say. Why are dreams so strange ? Where do dreams come from ? Freud was one the great explorers of our time. But the new worlds he explored were inside man himself. For the unconcious mind is like a deep well full of memories and feelings....which have been stored there from the moment of our birth - perhaps even before birth. Our concious mind has forgotten them. We do not suspect that they are there until some unhappy or unusual experience causes us to remember, or to dream dreams. Then suddenly we see a face that we had long forgotten. We feel the same jealous fear and bitter disappointments we felt when we were lottle children. This discovery of freud's is yery important if we wish to understand why people act as they do. For the unconcious forces inside us are at least as powerful as the concious forces we know about. Why does one story make us cry while another story dosn't affect us at all ? We someting know why. When we don't, the reasons may lie deep in our unconcioud minds.... In the late 1800's itseemed that noone very much about the mind. If a person went mad,or "out of his mind" there was not much that could be done about it. There was little help or comfort for the madman or his family. What was happening to him was not understood. Had he been possessed by a devil or evil spirit ? Was God punishing him for wrongdoing ? Often, such people were shut away from the company of ordinary civilised people as if they had committed some terrible crime....