How to Conduct Dream Analysis with Empirical Methods and Results

September 7th, 2017

By Anthony Tyler

Guest writer for Wake Up World

Whether considering the variety of prophetic dreams in the Bible and other religious texts, modern parapsychological phenomena, or even pop-culture ideas like Agent Dale Cooper or Scott Pilgrim — everyone agrees that dreams mean something. Most people, however, resign it to some mysterious corner of their brain that splashes them with endless, unsolvable riddles that are better left forgotten because they are essentially random neurological feedback during a brain’s inactivity.

This is probably not an accurate way to consider a dream, but any theory or hypothesis without the use of empirical deduction or irreducible complexity, or Occam’s razor (it’s all the same), is incomplete. Unfortunately, virtually any piece of modern scientific data is half-completed at best, considering it has not been given the proper stroke of Occam’s razor in comparison with history’s ancient sciences (and yes, they were sciences). Keep in mind: just because something is not a lie, does not mean it is the truth either.

When considering dreams using empirical deduction, it is important to consider two data sets — the first is the variety of dedicated and classical psychotherapists that have not only heavily postulated about dream analysis, but have also gleaned promising results using their methodologies throughout their patient practice — such as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Calvin Hall, and to a lesser but still notable degree, Viktor Frankl and Wilhelm Reich.

The second, perhaps more poignant note here, is the efficacy of these dream-analysis practices in personal life. Much like a psychedelic chemical, all a person need do is simply try it for oneself—there is no belief required. Furthermore, “belief” or “faith” is becoming more of a loose and entirely mis-represented idea, as modern science has shown without doubt that placebos are effective even as a person is aware that it the substance is a placebo. How is this possible? The idea of “placebo” “faith/belief” or “tricking yourself” is not actually “tricking” yourself at all, but using mental triggers to kick-start an entirely achievable but remote brain-state in a person’s traditional state of waking-consciousness. As another note of consideration for the reader, Christopher Nolan indisputably has a wealth of understanding about dream-analysis and its relationship to this notion of “placebo” and even esoteric symbolism, as the movie Inception boasts a fantastical version of some very fundamental principles in dream-analysis and interpretation.

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