pains, but, on the contrary, the dream aims to relieve us of these”. Although an individual can not relive the same moment, dreams allow us to recreate those experiences. Our feelings about the event may manifest in our dreams and allow us to handle a situation the way we wanted to, not necessarily the way it happened. As we have learned, the capacity of long term memory seems to be limitless. Although we may not think about a situation on a regular basis, memories of that moment are within us and therefore become possible subjects of dreams. Dreams have both a metaphysical and a physical existence. The metaphysical is the imagery within the dream and their relation to the subconscious. The physical aspect is the chemical reactions occur within the brain during dreams. The tie between physical and metaphysical cannot be established but it safe to say that one does exist. Thoughts are not physical in nature, we can’t touch or see them, but in order for them to occur the brain must go through chemical and hormonal changes. “The dream uses collective figures because it has to express an eternal human problem that repeats itself endlessly, and not just a disturbance of personal balance”(Jung, 1945) A person’s conscious mind is the mind that they use when they are awake and aware of what he is going on. The conscious is the part of the mind that has the ability to make distinctions between reality and the fantasy world. An individual is able to think rationally and act a certain way due to those thoughts. A person, in this state of mind, has complete control over everything he or she does including speaking, thinking, and the way that he or she acts around people. Treatment such as hypnotherapy cannot be given during this state of mind because the person is fully aware of what is going on around them. They are fully aware of how he is acting and what he is saying. “People’s conscious minds are very m...
