Dream catching

According to Sigmund Freud, the human mind is like the iceberg that sunk titanic: only one third is visible while the remaining two third hides beneath the dark icy water; unknown to anyone.

We cannot bear to know certain things about ourselves. Therefore, we do not (consciously) know them.

-D. McAdams

While studying for my behavioural studies exam, I find myself getting drawn-in, slowly but surely, by Freud’s theories on dream interpretation like a moth to a flame.

I am a dreamer, no doubt about that. Every night I go to bed expecting to be taken on a bizarre and seemingly random roller coaster ride. Every morning, I wonder what all of it meant; I wonder why I manage to recall most of my dreams so vividly while most never do.

Therein lays Freud’s appeal to me.

I am extremely eager to get my hands on some of Freud’s books in hopes that I will soon be able to understand myself more through my dreams. Nevertheless, I cannot deny that my excitement is slightly abated by the fear that mingles with it; the fear of what I might learn about myself. What if, it turns out; I harbor an unconscious desire for murder? What if, it turns out; I am unconsciously gay? What if, what if, what if… just as McAdams said, we are unconscious of our unconscious because we cannot bear to know the truth.


Do I really want to open Pandora’s Box?
yes, damn it. I do!