and Aristotle believe that dreams come from some outside psychological source such as experiences and memories. In Freud's article On Dreams he says describes this dream he had and then goes on to connect it to what had happened previously in his life. He made associations between the symbols in his dream and the people and the things in his life he could relate them to. At one point in this dream he sees spinach being served at the table. Once he awoke from the dream he wondered why spinach of all things was being served at the table. He then states, "The answer was that spinach reminded me of an episode which occurred not long ago at our family table, when one of the childrenrefused to eat any spinach." (Freud 11) As you can see he has found an obvious realistic link between what he saw in his dream to an experience he had in real life. Toward the end of his piece Freud clearly says that, "every situation in a dream seems to put together out of two or more impressions or experiences." (27) With this closing statement, I would have to say that this theory is quite realistic in its beliefs. It explains a little more where our dreams come from and how the images we have appear. If we sit here and analyze the dreams, which we have had, there is probably some connection that can be made between them and what has happened to us in our lives. The only downfall to this theory is that there are some unexplainable dreams that have nothing to do with what has happened in our lives. There are those unexplainable situations where we may have a dream without having any previous knowledge to base that dream upon. This is exactly what Jung tries to prove in his piece The Undiscovered Self with Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams.Jung argues that "elements often occur in a dream that are not individual and cannot be derived from personal experience". (107) They are simply "thought forms whose presence cannot be explained by anything in...
