I was walking down the hall to my room when I realized that my light was still on. I entered my room and found that my boyfriend was sitting on the bed waiting for me to get ready for dinner. I told him to leave and that I would meet him at the restaurant. After he left, I got a phone call. It was of a man, he was speaking in a low monotone voice. He said that if I didn’t leave with my boyfriend that he would die and that he would come after me. I got scared and hung up on him. I called my boyfriend and heard that same man on the line. I hung up and ran out of my house. While running I saw my boyfriends car in the driveway, then I came to the conclusion that it might have been just him trying to scare me. I woke up from my dream and realized that I had left my television on while watching Criminal minds. I turned off my television and went back to bed.
I envisioned myself on a surfboard in Hawaii. When going back to shore I saw my boyfriend waiting for me on the shore. When getting closer to the shore, he got up and left. I remember yelling at him to stop but I he just kept walking. When I got to shore I realized that the person that was my boyfriend really wasn’t it was a man. I saw that he was staring at me from across the street. I watched the man as I dried off on the shore, and realized after grabbing my towel that he had my bag. I chased after him and followed him into an alleyway. At the end of the street I saw my actual boyfriend waiting for me with candles and food. Not the most romantic place for dinner, but as I got up he pulled out my chair and he gave me a box, with a Pandora bracelet in it.
I woke up the next morning quite scared because I didn’t remember what the man that took my bag looked like.
- Psychoanalytic Perspective (wish-fulfillment theory)- A desire of my dream may be that I am scared that my boyfriend will be killed one day leaving my house. During late nights he gets really tired and has to drive 30 minutes to get to his house, I am scared that he would get in a car crash. And also my desire for a Pandora bracelet could lead to my boyfriend actually giving me one. The manifest content of my dream was that I getting ready for dinner with my boyfriend, while a man was calling me and taking my stuff. The latent content of my dream refers to the unconscious meaning of the dream, maybe an unfulfilled wish or desire. I believe that my latent content was that for Christmas I asked my boyfriend to buy me a Pandora bracelet, and take me out for dinner. I could have been scared of the man that I didn’t know because I was watching criminal minds and a similar scene was being played out.
- Biological View (Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis)- the activation-synthesis hypothesis is the brain’s ways of making sense of the activity during REM sleep. A biological view of my dream may have been the fact that I was watching criminal minds before going to bed. Criminal minds is a twisted show and the episode I was watching was of a truck driver taking older women to find a queen for his daughter whom is being taken away. This episode may explain why he was in two places, by my house and in Hawaii, because he travels around a lot. Following the man and finding my boyfriend may have been that I was trying to find my king, and it just happened to lead to my boyfriend. But this approach doesn’t explain why he was calling my house after my boyfriend and left, and telling me that my boyfriend was going to die if I didn’t go with him.
- Cognitive Perspective- I agree that dreams can help you solve your problems that may be being faced throughout life, but sometimes dreams can make you feel something that has nothing to do with what is trying to be solved. My dream helps me realize that my boyfriend should get more sleep and go home earlier if we hang out till late. I should be more considerate of him, and he might just buy me what I really want. I can’t understand why I was dreaming of a man calling my house, and watching me but I can say that I will not be watching criminal minds that soon before I go to bed, and to not take that show to heart.
