http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/10/23/sleepworking/ Twisted by Jessica Zafra - Pumping irony since 1994 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/10/23/sleepworking/#comment-26715 Dr. Feelgood Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:45:48 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/10/23/sleepworking/#comment-26715 I still vividly remember Dr. Agnes Bueno (the famous psychiatrist), ever the Freudian disciple, in her lecture when she said that we don't sleep and dream but we sleep TO dream. Dysfunctional sleep/dream is concomitant to, sometimes a cause of many a mental pathology. It's as essential to life as breathing, drinking, eating and copulating. We dream every time we sleep; we just don't remember them all the time. Sleeping (and dreaming) is when there's no super-ego to censor the id and that's when we get to be who we really are - all defense mechanisms, repression and suppression thrown out the window. It's the only way we can make sense of all the crazy and fucked up stuff we go through in our waking hours. The cliché is true: we truly make a better decision after we have "slept through" the problem. Without dreaming, we'd all go bonkers. I still vividly remember Dr. Agnes Bueno (the famous psychiatrist), ever the Freudian disciple, in her lecture when she said that we don’t sleep and dream but we sleep TO dream. Dysfunctional sleep/dream is concomitant to, sometimes a cause of many a mental pathology. It’s as essential to life as breathing, drinking, eating and copulating. We dream every time we sleep; we just don’t remember them all the time. Sleeping (and dreaming) is when there’s no super-ego to censor the id and that’s when we get to be who we really are - all defense mechanisms, repression and suppression thrown out the window. It’s the only way we can make sense of all the crazy and fucked up stuff we go through in our waking hours. The cliché is true: we truly make a better decision after we have “slept through” the problem. Without dreaming, we’d all go bonkers.

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