ABSTRACT

Dream sources' mainly relates to the sources from which the material to build the dream is taken, while 'dream instigators' is more in the nature of an energic concept describing 'foci' of energy that has remained or becomes active during sleep, thus threatening the ego wish to sleep. Freud speaks at different points of 'instigating sources', or 'instigators', or 'sources' using these terms synonymously. In dreams, incipient physical disease can often be detected earlier than in waking life; all the current bodily sensations assume gigantic proportions. In finally comparing his conclusions with those of previous and contemporary scientists, Freud states that in his theory of dreams and dreaming based on interpretation, he has found room for most of their contradictory views but the one that claims that dreams are meaningless processes, and the one stating that dreaming is a purely somatic process.,.