Answer the following questions :

(a) What does the expression ‘disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes’ mean?
(b) Why aren’t dreams meaningless?
(c) What do brains try to explain during sleep? Give an examplE-
(d) Describe the characteristics of dream in 2/3 sentences,
(e) How do dreams function as a form of psychotherapy?

 (a) By this, Sigmund Freud means that a person’s suppressed desires which are usually hidden, are satisfied in dream. That is, the hidden wants of a person are subconsciously met in a dream.

(b) Dreams are not meaningless because they are essential to emotional, mental and physical well-being.

(c) Brains try to explain the subjective interpretation of signals generated by it during sleep.

(d) Dreams have many characteristics. One is dreams are representation of unconscious desires. Secondly, dreams are helpful our emotional, mental and physical well-being.

(e) Dreams function as a form of psychotherapy because the dreamer is able to make connections between different thoughts and emotions in a safe environment.